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AB17
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AB17 asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Do you believe President Obama was born in the United States of America?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I don't know who is stupider; the 9/11 conspiracy theorists or the birth certificate. Tell me something do all you people believe in little green aliens too?

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. The real question "Birthers" have is: Why isn't Obama showing his original paperwork? Why isn't he opening up his university records? It's true that he doesn't have to, but some people are suspicious. The notion that all of those people really believe Obama was born in Africa, and they're on some global hunt to find proof, is a lie made up by the left wing news media. Starts with the New York Times, on down.

    Anyone who truly believes that Obama wasn't born in America is a wacko.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, I believe that Obama was born in the US. The thing is, that doesn't help with his eligibility problem. The Constitution says that a President has to be "natural born citizen".

    A "natural born citizen" is someone who is a native citizen (born on US soil) and has two US citizen parents. The founders wanted any president to have allegiance and loyalty exclusively to the US, so that meant that the person could have only US citizenship at birth.

    According to Obama's "Fight the Smears" website http://www.fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcert... , it states that Obama is a "native citizen" and that his citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. He was born with Kenyan/British and US citizenship. He isn't a natural born citizen.

    Vattel's Law of Nations was extensively consulted during the writing of the constitution according to Ben Franklin http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?i... and Vattel said "...natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens..."

    The Supreme Court supports the born on US soil, two US citizen parents definition as well,

    U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) http://supreme.justia.com/us/169/649/case.html

    Perkins v. Elg 307 U.S. 325 (1939) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c...

    Kwock Jan Fat v. White, 253 U.S. 454 (1920) http://supreme.justia.com/us/253/454/case.html

    (Keep in mind that until 1922, if the husband was a US citizen or became a naturalized citizen, then the wife automatically became a naturalized citizen also.)

    Also, the definition is confirmed again by Senator John A. Bingham who co-authored the part of the 14th amendment that concerns citizenship. He said, "[I] find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen…. . . "

    - John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866 (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))

    Note that he said "of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty" Obama's father was a Kenyan national and a British subject. He was never an American citizen. He owed allegiance to a foreign sovereignty.

    So, it follows that Obama is not a natural born citizen.

    The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. All of our freedoms come from that document. Shouldn't it be followed?

    This issue isn't about political parties. McCain isn't a natural born citizen (born in Panama when it wasn't an incorporated territory of the US), Jindal isn't a natural born citizen (his parents weren't US citizens at the time of his birth), Schwarzenegger isn't a natural born citizen (no US citizenship at all at birth).

  • ?
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    4 years ago

    you're using a double damaging, so i'm a splash doubtful on precisely what The Donald does or not not believe approximately the place Obama become or become not born. besides the shown fact that it concerns to not me in any case, with the aid of fact the Donald's opinion potential decrease than 0 to me in my opinion.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I dont like obama nor do i like his policies; but please shut the **** up about death panels, birth certificates, etc. It's pointless. Instead attack him with logical arguments, which are numerous to choose from. Same goes for the liberals who attack bush for "lying" to America. Clinton lied too, along with many other dems and reps.

    Be an American, not a republican or democrat.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have no reason to doubt the Republican Governor of Hawaii who has investigated the records and has said that he was indeed born in the U.S.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes.

  • 1 decade ago

    Really? You are really asking this? But to answer your question, yes.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, he was obvious born in Syria, the sacred enemy of America.

  • 1 decade ago

    No.

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