Marc Malone:
David Thomson – “Barack Obama almost certainly was born in Hawaii.” Almost? That’s what they call a very big IF! Geez! If it gets proven that he is not a natural-born citizen, or if he is legally an Indonesian, do you not preceive the extent of the Constitutional crisis that would engender?
The election is over. Anyone still pushing a “Truther” story that Obama is not a real citizen should have an “IDIOT ALERT!!” tag on their post.
The most kindly thing that can be said is that they are not pushing a partisan lie about Obama they know is a lie to scare the ignorant = but are actually ignorant of US citizenship laws.
For the ones still ignorant of citizenship laws:
1. jus solis citizenship of the happenstance of birth on US soil. Conferred on children of people legally on US soil without countervailing diplomatic arrangements . Some legal questions have yet to be concluded in court about children born of illegal aliens. In Obama’s case, there is no question about his birth on US soil in Hawaii, except with Truthers. Confirmed by birth certificate, by records showing marriage cert. and then school attendence by Obama’s parents when born.
2. Even if he was born on a UFO that had kidnapped Mrs Obama, he STILL would be a full, unquestioned citizen because he had jus sanguinis citizenship. He was born of blood relation to at least one US citizen. That issue has long been resolved legally, and past Presidential candidates have been born in foreign countries or outside any State in US territories to at least one US citizen. (George Romney, Mexico/Barry Goldwater, Arizona Territory).
3. Citizenship can be renounced, but only when a person legally a US citizen personally goes through a process of renouncement with the US State Department after they reach age 18. Quite obviously, there was never any past story of Obama doing that, and no State Dept records show Obama attempting to renounce citizenship.
Just a caution for pajamasmedia – any poster attempting to deny President Obama legitimacy as a citizen are stupid, dishonest, or both.
