bigmck – Even if the BC is valid, that does not make him “natural born”. At the time of his birth, US law said one parent had to be a citizen and a 10 year resident of the USA with five of those years after he/she turned 16 in order for the child to be a citizen. His mother did not meet that requirement. The whole thing stinks.
Garbage.
You don’t understand the law.
By your criterion, any child born in the USA to two US citizens under the age of 21 (16+your believed 5 years) is not a US citizen.
By your criteria, 2 American expats living abroad and working for private industry of the military on a 2-3 year period between the ages of 16 and 21 cannot produce a US citizen child until their “penalty years” serving in the US Army in Iraq or working for a firm in Greece expire…when they are 23-24.
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a) Obama’s mother did not reside in the U.S. for 14 years, in order for her child to be considered “a natural born citizen”
Garbage. Obama’s mom resided in the US continuously as a resident until age 22.
b) He was registered in Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen, attended school there, and they don’t have “dual citizenship:
Garbage. He was in a family headed by an prosperous Indonesian man. At the time, now doubt Ann Soetero believed she and Barack would live in Indonesia a long time. And they did have dual citizenship in the way that Barack had standing as a ward of an Indonesian but could only relinquish his birthright citizenship himself at age 18 by US law, which he didn’t. (foreign law cannot involuntarily strip someone’s US citizenship – it violates US sovereignity).
c) He was re-named “Barry Soetoro” why? was he adopted by the stepfather?
Garbage. Who cares? He was a US citizen then and now, who never tried shedding his citizenship with State Dept in their formal legal procedure.
d) He travelled to Pakistan in 1981 (or thereaby) His passport coud not have been a U.S. passport, because U.S. citizens were prohibited travel to Pakistan.
More garbage. There was never a ban on travel to Pakistan. In 1981 we had US bases there, US businesses there, Pakistan was a US ally. The myth of Pakistan as a forbidden land to Americans back then is a convenient Truther lie, easily dispelled by a simple lookup.
e) Why are his medical records sealed? Do they show him as an Indonesian citizen?
Why are your own medical records sealed from prying Truther eyes? Could it be something about Federal HIPAA law and each person’s right to privacy? Why did Sarah Palin effectively say “F*ck-off!” to Left-Wing Truthers seeking her gynecological records from when Trig was born? Same thing. Her right, her business.
But as is, Obama did release statements from doctors saying he was in good shape.
f) Why are his Columbia and Harvard papers sealed? What is he hiding?
His school records, like his medical records, are his own. Perspective employers can ask, his enemies can ask, but he is under no obligation to release his “full files”. The common wisdom of the public is that he did fairly well at Columbia to be accepted at Harvard Law, then he did fairly well at Harvard in order to be named Magnum cum Laude and Editor, Harvard Law Review.
If he worried that he needed to sacrifice more of his privacy to allieviate the majority of voters or a key demographic segment he wanted, and get elected – he might have done so. But he didn’t. And got elected, big.
Despite howls of Truthers, no obligation exists to provide them ammunition or humor their fantasies outside what the law requires of candidates.
