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To: Rambi who wrote (769)	6/21/2008 12:46:41 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

Well, Obama, for one, isn't falling for that stuff: FORT WORTH -- Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced he would co-sponsor legislation introduced yesterday by his political ally Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to ensure that John McCain can become president, even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. The issue of McCain's eligibility was raised in a New York Times article noting the constitutional requirement that a U.S. president be a "natural-born citizen" had never been fully defined. The McCaskill bill, submitted immediately after she scrawled it onto a notepad on the Senate floor in response to the Times story, would establish the eligibility of anyone born to a U.S. citizen who is serving overseas as an active or reserve member of the U.S. armed forces. The Arizona senator's father was a Navy officer serving in the Canal Zone when McCain was born there in 1936. "Senator McCain has earned the right to be his party's nominee, and no loophole should prevent him from competing in this campaign," Obama said. blog.washingtonpost.com

To: Rambi who wrote (769)	6/22/2008 4:10:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 3816

Rambi, my mother was born in China of an English father who served in WWI from China and served in the Boxer conflict. She was a British subject, as was her mother who was born in New Zealand. So was I. So was my father who spent 4 years of his life in Africa and the middle east, helping Britain defeat Germany. But oddly, while Britain fills with culturally unattuned gangstas and Islamic Jihad from previously occupied countries which became part of the British Empire, our dear daughter is not allowed in other than transiently in gainful employment. She could very easily pass as an English rose, complete with Pommy accent having spent a year there as a child. I forget when it was, but my passport used to say "British Subject". New Zealand is becoming a republic, likely to end up like Zimbabwe the way we are going [for the last half century]. A banana republic, except that bananas don't grow here. The USA seems similar = any invader could drop a baby and bingo, instant US citizenship. But children of those defending the realm abroad were persona non grata. Mqurice