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Originally posted by drock905
This man is running for arguably the most powerful position in the world. Every record should be disclosed.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Originally posted by drock905
This man is running for arguably the most powerful position in the world. Every record should be disclosed.
To whom? What makes you think that he hasn't already disclosed all proper records to all proper authorities? Why are you not also insisting on John McCain's records?
Originally posted by skeptic1
I thought McCain already went through all of this when he ran in 2000. Didn't a court uphold his natural born status then and wasn't his "problem" resolved and cleared up?
Originally posted by indigothefish
but he has a moral obligation to answer the peoples question
Originally posted by dariousg
I don't think anyone is saying 'who cares if he ISN'T a citizen of the U.S.'. What I, and most others I'm sure, ARE saying is that his mother was a U.S. citizen. She did NOT relinquish her citizenship. If he was born here or in Kenya he would still be a U.S. (NATURAL BORN) citizen.
If one parent is a US citizen, and the other is not, and the parents are married, then the current law says the child is a US citizen if the American parent was physically present in the US for one or more periods of time totalling at least five years, at some time or times in his or her life prior to (but not necessarily immediately prior to) the child's birth. Additionally, at least two years out the required five years of physical presence must have taken place after the parent's 14th birthday; thus, for example, a parent who was born and grew up in the US, but who left before reaching age 16 and never returned, doesn't meet the requirement.
Prior to 14 November 1986, the physical presence requirement in this case was ten years (instead of five) -- including five years (instead of two) spent after the parent's 14th birthday. The requirement was reduced in 1986, but the change did not retroactively make US citizenship available to people born previously who did not meet the old requirement. (Congress's intent not to make this change retroactive was affirmed in 1988 with the passage of Public Law 100-525, § 8(d), 102 Stat. 2619).
Originally posted by drock905
I think the important part of this whole issue is that Obama's grandmother, half-brother and half-sister have said that he was born in Kenya.