>>>>>>Obama needs to go back to whatever country he came from.
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>>>>>>You mean the country in which he was born? :)
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>>>>>Maybe you should all go back to the countries you came from.
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>>>>Far as I know, I am in the country where I was born.
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>>>So its a birthright. That must apply to the children of illegal immigrants as well.
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>>Except the constitution states that the president must be a "natural born citizen." From the law of nations, natural born citizens are "those born in this country of parents who are citizens"
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>>However, I'm not convinced that he is not born in this country. Rather, what concerns me is his blocking of his records including college, grants, etc. When you run for the highest office in the land, it should (and typically is) made public.
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>>However, if you read it closely, it is contradictory - it does state "or a citizen .....and been 14 years a resident...."
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>>No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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>>and
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>>The grandfather provision of the "natural born Citizen" clause provided an exception to the "natural born" requirement for those persons who were citizens at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. The term Natural Born Citizen had been used as early as 1777 in a letter from Thomas Jefferson, in his role as correspondent for a committee of the Continental Congress, to American ambassadors in Europe.
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>>Additionally, the Twelfth Amendment states that: "[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." The Fourteenth Amendment does not use the phrase "natural born citizen". It does provide that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States
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>>While the wiki claims it comes from one of Thomas Jefferson's letters, I think it more likely it comes from the law of nations since they used Vattel's Law of Nature and Nations at the time and it is referenced in many letters.
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>>I actually think this article lays it out best (and the controversy):
>>http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20041008.html
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>I'm sure if the Hatch proposal (see I read a link !) was adopted the Tea Party bigots would find something else to complain about.
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>For myself (as an onlooker) I think Obama has been disappointing so far. I expected a firmer grip on things . I think he will be a two term President largely because the far right will begin to scare off the middle of the road voter.

I fear you may be correct in your last statement. However, I think overall, the balance in congress will shift after November as well so it will be more like past typical administrations.

the fact that (no matter how some folks like to give the right credit for stopping things in the house) the majority is one party and yet all of those policies don't go through now, shows that not even everyone in his own party supports his views or at least believes politically it would be death to support them all right now...