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To: Lurkinanloomin

If his father is who he claims, a Kenyan national and at the time, a British subject, then Obama is not a natural born citizen, regardless of where he was born.

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Don’t take this the wrong way, but my father was a Canadian citizen on a green card and got drafted in the early 60’s. He was serving in the navy when I was born. When his enlistment was up the navy told him he must become a citizen to re-enlist. He told them, no thanks.
I was born in the US to an American mother. Am I a “natural born citizen?”

I hate 0bama, but who cares where he was born? He’ll mercifully be gone in a few months and we’ll have the greatest President since Lincoln in the White House.


34 posted on 09/17/2016 7:10:32 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Hooorah.)
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To: HenpeckedCon

Citizen, yes, natural born citizen, no.
Are you planning to run for President?


35 posted on 09/17/2016 7:12:12 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: HenpeckedCon
I hate 0bama, but who cares where he was born?

People who don't want enemy agents destroying the US from the Oval Office, and the Framers of the Constitution.

36 posted on 09/17/2016 7:18:11 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: HenpeckedCon
I was born to two US ‘natural born’ citizens. However, my birth took place on German soil, and I am NOT a ‘natural born’ US citizen. Congress nor the courts were granted the power or authority to bequeathed ‘natural born’ US citizenship, only two US citizen parents giving birth on US soil can bequeath ‘natural born’ US citizenship. Part of where ‘we the people are government’, the founding fathers established, the state is not God.
37 posted on 09/17/2016 7:20:17 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: HenpeckedCon
On the surface, I would agree with you, and further agree that most Americans would see it your way. However...

What about the US Constitution?

Here's the quote:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

So I guess the eligibility requirements listed above are you need to be at least 35 years old, been residing in the USA for the past 14 years, and a “natural born citizen”. (Since "at the time of the adoption of this Constitution was 1787, I don't think anyone needs to worry about that requirement)

The whole then comes down to what IS a natural born citizen.

That has never been adjudicated anywhere, as far as I know.

And that's why there is controversy over Obama’s birth—his father not being a citizen; Ted Cruz being born in Canada to a Cuban father as well.

38 posted on 09/17/2016 7:21:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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