To: Lane3 who wrote (89650 ) 10/11/2008 4:36:03 PM From: Cogito Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541904 >>I noticed that, too. That's perhaps the most bizarre bit of political "thinking" I have ever seen. The notion that his mother is not really his mother, that his grandparents are not his grandparents, is beyond preposterous. Do they think his mom stole him from some foreign maternity ward? Or what?<< Karen - No, the theory is that his mother travelled to Kenya when she was near term, and then the airline wouldn't allow her to fly back to Hawaii before giving birth, being afraid she'd deliver the child on the plane. Allegedly, she brought her new infant son to Hawaii a few days after he was born, and somehow got him a birth certificate there. But that isn't the most important argument being made in the case in Pennsylvania. The other charge is that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia when he was living there and his stepfather adopted him, and thus at that time lost his US Citizenship. If that were so, then Obama would have been legally required to sign an Oath of Allegiance to the United States soon after his 18th birthday, in order to reclaim his US citizenship. I personally know someone, a lawyer, who had to do that. From what he says, it's a real legal requirement. If it is true that Obama became and Indonesian citizen as a child, and if he really did not sign an Oath of Allegiance within the allowable time after his 18th birthday, he would in fact not be an U.S. citizen. Now wouldn't THAT be a kick in the teeth? The birth certificate thing seems bogus, but it's possible there's something to the other charge. One does wonder, however, where Phillip Berg, the lawyer who brought the suit in Pennsylvania got his information. - Allen