[Vision2020] Natural Born Citizen: Evasion You Can Believe In

[No Weatherman]

ACS,

Your founding fathers argument is obvious but it doesn't answer the
point and your jus sanguinus argument adds no light either.

I noticed, however, that you write with absolute assurance as though
you know certain things as established facts whereas we saw yesterday
that the facts you grasp are unfounded speculations at best. I suggest
that if you assert something as fact, you provide support for it.
It'll save time.

And rather than jingle with you on the dance floor all day long,
please answer the question and tell us why you believe the fathers
inserted the NBC prerequisite and why you believe Obama won't answer
the question.

After all, you said it's "obvious." Apparently, however, it's not so
obvious to Obama and his legal counsel or they would have produced the
proof and moved on to other things, like all those illegal donations:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081008/D93M0K5G0.html



On 10/7/08, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not have access to Westlaw or a similar search engine to confirm
>  > the exact definition of "natural born citizen" as it applies to this
>  > context and you will search Google in vain. But the argument as I
>  > understand it is that Obama's Kenyan citizenship combined with his US
>  > citizenship made him a "dual citizen" — the exact worst-case scenario
>  > that the founding fathers had in mind when they mandated that only a
>  > "natural born citizen" could hold the office of POTUS.
>
>
> NW --
>
>  Each of the Founding Fathers (indeed, every president born before
>  1776) had exactly the same status as Obama: born with British
>  citizenship due to colonial status, lost citizenship when the colonial
>  status expired. That's pretty much it. Frankly, the same sort of
>  inadvertent dual citizenship can arise whenever a person with a parent
>  with jus sanguinus citizenship of another nation has a child with a US
>  citizen or on US soil. Such dual citizenship frequently cannot be
>  easily disclaimed.
>
>  Incidentally, you won't find the term "natural born citizen" on
>  Westlaw. The term has never been litigated. The majority of legal
>  scholars believe it to mean "having possessed US citizenship since
>  birth," or, in other words, "not a naturalized US citizen."
>
>  -- ACS
>