Incidentally, the reason this comes up at all is that there are Supreme Court decisions that appear to state that one must have two citizen parents (at the time of birth) to be considered "natural born." Left undecided in any sort of fashion that stands on its own is whether someone born here, but to one citizen parent (and the other parent a foreign national) is "natural born."Read The Whole Thing. You can scoff, scream, whine and hurl insults and accusations all you want--but you cannot break the arguments. Try.
This should be directed to the US Supreme Court. There is plenty of doubt over whether a child that is born in the United States to an illegal immigrant is a "natural born" citizen. Indeed, it's open question whether such a person is even entitled to citizenship at all under the 14th Amendment, although we have permitted this for years. In addition a child born to one citizen parent and the other a foreign national in the United States is a citizen under existing law, but whether they're "natural born" has never been definitively answered; the rulings on the matter have instead focused on two citizen parents, leading to a reasonable assumption that lacking two citizen parents you are not "natural born."
This distinction only matters for the President and Vice-President. And before you say it shouldn't, think carefully. The President may well have to order troops into a foreign land. Will he be willing to do so if his father is a citizen of the country he is now called upon to attack? It is precisely for this reason that the "natural born" clause exists.
01 May 2011
Why, yes, I AM going to post more about the BS BC. Thanks for asking.
Mr. Denninger elaborates even further on the issues at hand regarding Obummer's eligibility for the office. Leftists, go find a Conservative to read it to you. (And put on your helmets first, so when your brain explodes, it won't get all over the walls.)
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