The video starts out with some content from obamasnippets.com, which, of course is contrived. And yet, there seems to be a synthetic truth about what the president says. Is he "natural born" according to the Constitution? No. The requirement is that BOTH parents need to be U. S. Citizens. Two U. S. Citizen parents produce a "natural born" citizen. It's likely that Mr. Obama was REGISTERED in Hawaii, therefore he has a COLB from Hawaii. The truth may well be he was born in Kenya; that is where we believe his "long-form" birth certificate was issued. Nevertheless, "natural born" indicates, and speaks to the fact that BOTH parents have to be U. S. Citizens. His father WAS NEVER a U. S. Citizen, therefore, Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a "natural born" Citizen of the United States, thus he is in violation of Amendment 14, and Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5 of the United States Constitution.
Obama has already shown the official birth certificate of Hawaii, and the facts on the document–that he was born in Hawaii in 1961—were confirmed twice by the officials of the Department of Health of Hawaii and by the governor of Hawaii (a Republican).
ReplyDeleteObama’s Kenyan grandmother NEVER said that he was born in Kenya. She said repeatedly in the taped interview that he was born in Hawaii, where his father was studying, and she said in another interview that the first that her family in Kenya had heard of Obama’s birth was in a letter from Hawaii.
The reason that the US Congress confirmed Obama's election UNANIMOUSLY and that the Chief Justice of the United States swore him in as president is that not one of them believes your theory about Natural Born Citizen status requiring two US parents.
“Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” — Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition
That is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply one who was born in the USA:
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:
“Every child born in the United States is a natural-born United States citizen except for the children of diplomats.” (December 11, 2008 letter to constituent)
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:
“What is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.” (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)
Did you pick up the part about "whose parents do not owe their alliegance to another country?" It seems we also have a problem with our neighbors to the south coming here and giving birth. Their children can not be U.S. Citizens because their parents owe their alliegance to countries south of the U.S. southern border or else where in the world. Problem solved, the children of illegal immigrants are sent back to their parents countries of origin. By the way, just because a Senator says it, doesn't make it true, they've also been known to be wrong once or twice.
ReplyDeleteRe: ""whose parents do not owe their alliegance to another country?"
ReplyDeleteAnswer: That is not in the US Constitution. Bingham said it, one US Congressman, and he was the ONLY US Congressman to have said anything like that during the debate on the Amendment. As someone said: "Just because ONE Congressman said it, doesn't make it true."
Moreover, Bingham spoke before the ruling of the US Supreme Court in the Wong Kim Ark case, which ruled that EVERY child born in the USA except for the children of foreign diplomats is Natural Born, and the court upheld the ruling of the lower court that Wong Kim Ark was a Natural Born Citizen of the United States despite BOTH of his parents being subjects of the Emperor of China.
After the Wong Kim Ark case, there have been numerous federal court rulings that specifically state that the US-born children of foreigners are Natural Born Citizens. For example:
Mustata v. US Dept. of Justice, 179 F.3d 1017 (6th Cir. 1999) (children born in US to two Romanian citizens described as “natural born citizens” of the US):
"Petitioners Marian and Lenuta Mustata are citizens of Romania. At the time of their petition, they resided in Michigan with their two minor children, who are natural born citizens of the United States."
And
Diaz-Salazar v. INS, 700 F.2d 1156 (7th Cir. 1983) (child born in US to Mexican citizen is “natural born citizen” of US):
"Petitioner, Sebastian Diaz-Salazar, entered the United States illegally [from Mexico] in 1974 and has been living and working in Chicago since that time. *** The relevant facts which have been placed before the INS, BIA, and this court can be summarized as follows: The petitioner has a wife and two children under the age of three in Chicago; the children are natural-born citizens of the United States."
and
Nwankpa v. Kissinger, 376 F. Supp. 122 (M.D. Ala. 1974) (child born in US to two Biafra citizens described as “natural born citizen” of the US):
"The Plaintiff was a native of Biafra, now a part of the Republic of Nigeria. His wife and two older children are also natives of that country, but his third child, a daughter, is a natural-born citizen of the United States."
What makes the third child different from the other two children? She was born in the USA.
Also, do you think that the US Congress would have confirmed Obama's election UNANIMOUSLY if one of them thought that the citizenship of Obama's father affected his Natural Born Citizen status?