Truthers vs. Birthers: Not All Conspiracy Theories Are Created Equal
Calling all birthers: The requirement that a parent have lived in the USA for 4 years since achieving the age of majority applies only
to parents who are non-US citizens.
It does N-O-T apply to children of 18 year olds from Kansas who are themselves native-born citizens.
BTW: Any claim to natural-born citizenship CANNOT by invalidated by the actions of the Indonesian government or any other foreign government. Such citizenship can be repudiated ONLY by the person in question after they have achieved the age of majority.
It all boils down to this: If a person is a citizen and is not a naturalized citizen, he or she is natural-born.
For any birther argument to be valid, one of two things would have to be proven. Either (A) BHO is not a citizen at all OR (B) he is a naturalized citizen. In the abscence of that, birther arguments have no standing in the court.
FWIW: John McCain helped fuel all this by producing his birth certificate. Since he was a US citizen and had never been naturalized, he did not have to produce or prove a darned thing. The burden of proof would have fallen squarely on those claiming his ineligibility.
Their squealing insistence would have generated
enough sympathy to have increased McCain’s vote totals.
Both birthers and truthers are throwbacks to the time when “everybody knew” that tomatos were poison and anybody who publicly survived having eaten several of them was guilty of witchcraft.
