John Pearson – This school’s registration lists his name as “Barry Soetoro” and his nationality as “Indonesian”. Is it far-fetched to think Obama established Indonesian citizenship as a youngster? Yes, because whack jobs on the Far Right are playing right into Democrats hands with such silliness. Obama was born in the USA and his American mother remarrying and even putting her son under a foreigners name does not erase Obama’s citizenship rights. Only Barack could renounce his own citizenship rights after reaching age 18 in a formal, legal process.
Henry Bowman – Mr. McCain is not without his own troubles with respect to being a natural-born citizen. The opinions of lawyers are quite irrelevant: it is the opinion of judges that matter.
Henry displays the “anal retentative, can’t see the forest for the trees” aspect of the Conspiratorist, The Truther.
It would take a brave judge indeed to attempt to defy the True Final Word that matters – which is not the power of some lawyer dressed in robes – but the sacred conventions and covenents of the American people. And about on the top of their list is that when they have a child by their blood, that child is a US citizen too, no matter where they are born. Especially a child born to an American soldier serving his nation on duty in a territory or foreign land. Like McCain.
This was actually settled long ago as citizens born in territories and even to overseas Americans ran for the Presidency unchallenged by right-wing or left-wing partisan assholes seeking to discredit their citizenship. George Romney was the finest and most recent example. Born in Mexico to an American religious dissendent couple, and one of the young architects of the WWII war production miracle in Detroit, he was selected by Gen George Marshall to introduce the Marshall Plan to Congress as “a great American”.
Also, both Parties are best off rejecting whack jobs that wish to deny citizenship rights of either candidate because if that ever got mainstream in either party it would be seen as a direct attack of the citizenship rights of 15 million Americans – mostly now reliable voters – born abroad to US parents, born here to only one American parent or no American parent, or those who worked hard to be naturalized US citizens.
