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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SmoothSail who wrote (69453)	7/27/2009 1:26:40 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224728

McCain was born in the US Military Hospital in the Canal Zone, an American protectorate at the time.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (69453)	7/27/2009 1:29:43 PM
From: Carolyn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224728

I think the Constitution says a president must be born in the US or on US soil. A military base, just as an embassy, is considered to be US soil.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (69453)	7/27/2009 1:58:51 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	10 Recommendations Respond to of 224728

just watched the press meeting with the Cambridge city manager and Mayor. Talk of using the Gates incident as a learning opportunity. Here is what I have learned. 1. Some black men will never lose their sense of entitlement. 2. Some black men enjoy the victim status as a way to avoid responsibility for their actions 3. Racism is alive and well in the black community, all the way to the top....the President of the U.S. 4. Harvard is one of the biggest threats to the U.S.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (69453)	7/27/2009 2:30:54 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224728

Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952, to November 13, 1986. Federal Law requires that the office of President requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents. This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone. US Law very clearly states: ". . . If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16." Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. Citizen is a fact. Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means even though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years- prior-to Barack Obama's birth, but-after-age-16. In essence, Mother alone is not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At most, 2 years elapsed from his mother turning 16 to the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18. His mother would have needed to have been 16 + 5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama's birth for him to be a natural-born citizen. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at the time his mother would have needed to be to allow him natural citizenship from his only U.S. Citizen parent. Obama should have been naturalized as a citizen . . . but that would disqualify him from holding the office.