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No other president has gone through "scrutiny" about his birth place. Then again, there has never been questions about their birthplace either.
You should really ask democrats why they brought this up in the first place.
And I wouldn't say Obama has gone through any type of scrutiny on this either. Very, very few people believe he was born anywhere besides Hawaii. And it's not the press is asking about it or anything. The only time I ever hear about birhters is when people like you criticize them. Makes me wonder if the birthers really exist. Or if the left has exaggerated the "problem".
If the media had been as intrusive in 1857 as it is today, I think there would have been a similar whirlwind around James Buchanan, who was often rumored to be gay.
What media? The media has never once seriously questioned Obama about this. Obama is on the media's protected list.
Yes, but the thread title didn't appear in the quote. It was the original post in the thread "What other (white) president has ever been subjected to the nonsense of a birther bill?". I apologize for the oversight. All candidates for the highest office in the land should be expected to prove their eligibility. An anchor baby born to an illegal alien in the US or it's territories is eligible to be president under the present interpretation of the 14th amendment, but not someone born in Kenya, even if both parents were native born US citizens. That is the eligibility requirement. It's the law of the land.
If the media had been as intrusive in 1857 as it is today, I think there would have been a similar whirlwind around James Buchanan, who was often rumored to be gay.
That would not have constitutionaly disqualified him from being president, though it most certainly would have kept him from being elected.
Ok, how many ways do I have to do this to get it through your (what I can't say here) head? READ THE TITLE HEADING AGAIN AND SEE IF YOU GET THE QUESTION! It doesn't say anything about controversy. READ IT!
If i'm not mistaking starting with the first American born citizen president Van Buren and up to Bush, both parents were American citizens.
To tell you the truth, the only time lately that I hear anything about the birther movement is on this board.
If i'm not mistaking starting with the first American born citizen president Van Buren and up to Bush, both parents were American citizens.
Correct, except for Chester Arthur, which wasn't known until years after his death. Chester Arthur knew he had something to hide; he never let anyone see his personal papers, and he had them burned when he was near death.
As posted earlier in this thread:
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During his lifetime, my father would never let anyone see them—not even me. When they finally came into my possession, I was amazed that there were so few. At my father's funeral in Albany, or rather at the interment of his ashes which took place several months after his death [July 17,1934], I enquired of all the cousins there assembled—the nieces and nephews of my grandfather, as to what had happened to the bulk of the papers. Charles E. McElroy, the son of Mary Arthur McElroy who was my grandfather's First Lady, tells me that the day before he died, my grandfather caused to be burned three large garbage cans, each at least four feet high, full of papers which I am sure would have thrown much light on history.
So wrote Chester A. Arthur III to Dr. Thomas P. Martin, then Acting Chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, on April 15, 1938.
I'd *like* to believe that the birther movement simply stems from dissatisfaction with the current administration, regardless of race, and they feel it's a possible way to get him removed from office.
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It doesn't say anything about controversy. READ IT!