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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (669261)	8/26/2012 1:51:18 AM
From: TopCat	Respond to of 1578539

"Inode, what's the practical reason for requiring the POTUS to be a natural-born citizen?" IMO, there is no practical reason except one....it's the law and it shouldn't get changed by breaking the law.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (669261)	8/26/2012 2:24:16 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578539

>> Inode, what's the practical reason for requiring the POTUS to be a natural-born citizen? The purpose of it originally, I believe, was to serve as a block against influence of a foreign power. I think at the time the Constitution was written there was a great deal of paranoia about it, probably with some good reason. Whether it is something we need today, I don't know, but unless someone amends the Constitution that is the law of the land. Were it to turn out Obama was not a citizen -- agreeably a highly unlikely event -- I do think it would give rise to a pretty huge constitutional crisis. I think any state ought to have the right to demand proof of both age and citizenship before admitting someone to the ballot then you eliminate the problem before it becomes a bigger problem. Like so much of Obama's history, there is a lot of mystery surrounding it. This may have little to do with Obama and more to do with the willingness of the media to see him elected without even a basic vetting. We don't know crap about him compared with what we know about other presidents. It wasn't totally new with Obama, however. The media didn't adequately vet Clinton, either -- the rape of Juanita Broadrick didn't become public knowledge until after the Lewinsky scandal. Same with a number of the other "bimbo eruptions". It is just that with obama, he had no significant public history since he had never really been a public figure and essentially stumbled into politics and the presidency over a period of only a few years.