Debate continutes over whether a British dad's baby would meet the constitutional requirement for president. Months of arguments over President Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office – based on the U.S. Constitution's requirement that the chief executive be a "natural born" citizen – have been fueled both by the president's decision to withhold his original long-form birth certificate, thereby leaving some questions unanswered, and by arguments over just exactly what is a "natural born" citizen.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Re: Debate continues…
It is an odd sort of debate. The allegation that Obama was not a Natural Born US citizen was discussed before the election. He won. The allegation that Obama was not a Natural Born US citizen was sent to all the 365 electors that Obama one. Not one of them changed their vote. Obama received all 365 electoral votes that he received on Nov. 4. The allegation that Obama was not a Natural Born citizen was sent the former Vice President of the USA and to Congress before the certification of the election results. VP Chaney took no notice of the allegations, nor did any congressperson, and the election was certified.
All these people, the 69 million who voted for Obama, the electors in the Electoral College, the members of Congress (the old Congress, not the new one that was elected on Nov. 4), VP Chaney, all held that there is no debate, no question that Obama is a Natural Born Citizen. So, by the way, did McCain. His researchers looked into the Natural Born question and concluded that it was not an issue. If it had been, you can be sure that he would have raised it.
Ah, you may say, “McCain didn’t raise the issue because he had issues too.” But that is not sufficient. If there was an issue, he should have raised it, and the voters would sort it out.
And, the voters did sort it out. The fact that Obama’s father was not a citizen is irrelevant. All that matters to be a Natural Born Citizen is to be born in the USA. That is what Natural Born meant at the time of the Revolution. At that time Colonies considered anyone born in a colony to be a Natural Born citizen of the colony and a Natural Born subject of Britain so long as they were born in the colony, regardless of the number of parents.
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