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Old 12-03-2008, 06:59 PM
 
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Then how, pray tell, did the 3 previous presidents who had the same exact situation manage to be elected and serve as presidents? Ridiculous.
Note that we've made this point to Kootr several times and he's yet to respond to it - for that matter, neither have any of his heroes on their respective blogs and websites.

 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:05 PM
 
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they dod not have the exact same situation!

They were born to U.S. citizens...unlike Obama. Even though the past presidents you name had one or more parents that were not "Natural Born Citizens" they were U.S. citizens when these past presidents were born, thus making them "Natural Born Citizens". In Obama's case his father was not a U.S. citizen - he was a British citizen due to him being a Kenyan. Thus Barack was born having a parent (Obama Sr.) that was neither a U.S. Citizen nor a Natural Born Citizen. The U.S. Constitution requires that the POTUS must be a NBC, which requires (at the least) that both parents be U.S. citizens.
There is no evidence that any of these pres' non-US born parents were US citizens. This business of Obama's "dual citizenship" is on his website, according to other posters here on CD. According to that, it also expired in 1982, which was a mere 26 years ago!

Perhaps you could quote the section of the constitution that says that both parents must be born in the US.
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:44 PM
 
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Atlanta Public Policy Examiner: First generation presidents not always on history's side
Mr. Obama will be the seventh man sworn in as President of the United States who has a parent born outside our borders. The other six are:

Interesting read on the general topic of presidential parents.
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:52 PM
 
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Atlanta Public Policy Examiner: First generation presidents not always on history's side
Mr. Obama will be the seventh man sworn in as President of the United States who has a parent born outside our borders. The other six are:

Interesting read on the general topic of presidential parents.
hmmmm I guess kootr and sanrene will be making a case about BO's mama now....
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:53 PM
 
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There is no evidence that any of these pres' non-US born parents were US citizens. This business of Obama's "dual citizenship" is on his website, according to other posters here on CD. According to that, it also expired in 1982, which was a mere 26 years ago!

Perhaps you could quote the section of the constitution that says that both parents must be born in the US.
Poster doesn't need to cite a legal showing of where the constitution says that. He says it and that is enough as the world revolves around his blogsphere.
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:54 PM
 
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hmmmm I guess kootr and sanrene will be making a case about BO's mama now....
I hear the next line of Rightie defense on this topic is that their house in Hawaii was built by a militant socialist from China.

God save the Union for Obama won't
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:56 PM
 
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Atlanta Public Policy Examiner: First generation presidents not always on history's side
Mr. Obama will be the seventh man sworn in as President of the United States who has a parent born outside our borders. The other six are:

Interesting read on the general topic of presidential parents.
That article is wrong. Hoover's mother was not English-Irish.

She was, however, Canadian.
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:57 PM
 
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That article is wrong. Hoover's mother was not English-Irish.

She was, however, Canadian.
Of what ancestry?
 
Old 12-03-2008, 07:58 PM
 
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The next President of the United States - The Big Picture - Boston.com
 
Old 12-03-2008, 08:00 PM
 
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And Jefferson and Jackson are moot. They were born before the Constitution.
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