Born In The USA!

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My son was born in a different country, but is still considered an American from birth. The embassy gave me a paper stating that he may still be eligible to run for president - no one in that particular position has ever tried, so it's legally untested.
So, even if Obama was born in Kenya (and I don't think he was) that doesn't automatically disqualify him from holding office.

It's now official. Obama is a..."hard rockin' daddy in the USA!"



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You cant blame Kraischauer. I dont think there is a soul in the whole English speaking world who doesnt have that song going through their head right now just because of the headlines!

2 Clinton supporters in ’08 reportedly shared Obama ‘birther’ story

What Trump and his buddies said about Obma's birth has nothing to do with the facts about Obama's birth. Obama was born to an American woman in Hawaii. That makes him (according to the Constitution) a natural born American citizen.

Qualitatively Obama is the Spirit Child of Saul Alinsky and (old) May Daley. Alinsky hated America and Mayor Daley show how to make a career out of political corruption. Chicago is a city where the dead vote early and often.

In Canada we wouldn't care if the Prime Minister was from Mars. He might be, for all we know. Whatever.

Maybe we would care if he was from the States. We'd be horrified. Any country but the States!

The reason its an issue is that the Constitution spells out the qualifications for being president. Among the qualifications are being born in the USA (though the wording is a bit vague as to how "being born in the USA" is defined). John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone (not what is usually thought of as part of the USA, but the zone was under US rule at the time he was born- so was McCain "born in the USA", or not? Your opinion is as good as anyone's).

So in theory if you could prove that that your candidate's opponent was not born a US citizen then that would show the opponent's candidacy is illegal.

Ironically the Founding Fathers who drew up the Constitution were all themselves born subjects of the British Crown (even though they were born in the lands that became the Independent USA that they were founding).

James K. Polk (our 15th president) was the first to be born after the ratification of the US Constitution (ie our first president who was actually born a US citizen).

That's a bit rich isn't it! anybody who doesn't have short term memory problems will know that he was the cheerleader for that debunked conspiracy theory.
Trump's true "believers" will vote for him even if he preyed on young virgins at beauty paegents...oh wait...

Anybody that doesn't have short term memory problems would know that the debunked conspiracy theory started with Hillary Clinton, she played it very dirty with Obama in 2008.

Quite frankly it is always been an overblown issue which is by design as it is a distraction, please drop the feigned outage and crocodile tears! How much more mileage can Obama get out this story will not actually having to do his job or talk about anything relevant?

How about the debunked conspiracy that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was aiding al-Qaeda? Talking about Obama's birth certificate killed how many people? Zero. How many lives were lose because of our unjustified invasion and occupation of Iraq? Who voted and was one of the strongest supporters of that war?

Your priorities are weird, your feelings don't govern reality and trying to govern reality with your feelings will end in tragedy. A guy says off the cuff maybe even mean offensive things sometimes, get over it.

Trump is playing politics this year. He is doing what virtually all politicians do: lie, evade, and spew sh*t.