Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
There really IS a question about what the framers of the Constitution intended when they specified that a president must be a "natural born
citizen".
OK let's start with "the framers of the Constitution"...
Riddle me this...How many of them were born on "British Soil"?
Were George Washingtons parents born on "British Soil"? Was George Washington himself born on British Soil?
Was George Washington born to American Citizens?
Hint: America was not founded until 1776.
I know...I know....not fair right? But birthers are the ones that are obsessed with inflating (out of context) minutia in legal rulings, we should at
least acknowledge that George Washington himself would not qualify by today's ever so intransient new birther definition of "Natural Born".
OK...How about these Presidents...
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) is the only president born of two immigrants, both Irish.
Presidents with one immigrant parent are
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England,
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers,
and Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), whose mothers were born respectively in England and Canada.
All born with Dual citizenship BTW...
If we want to consider modern examples....
Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico...and his parents had been in Mexico since they were kids....the citizenship laws at the time that extended
citizenship to offspring abroad required that the parents have been in the USA sometime 5 years prior to giving birth abroad.
So Romney's dad did not have American Citizenship when he crossed the border back into the USA in 1908...and he never applied for naturalization. It
became an issue when Romney's dad ran for President in 1968 with his GOP competitor for the nomination asking for a special council to investigate
George Romney's eligability. George Romney dropped out two months later, so the issue was dropped. Mitt Romney is an Anchor Baby.
How about Rick Santorum...Both his parents were born in Italy...Rick has refused to release their naturalization records showing they came here
legally. Those records should be available on Ancestry.com, but they aint there.
John McCain....It wasn't a US military base he was born on and it wasn't US Soil at the time, that came a year later with legislation...and even then,
looking at the maps for the time, the specific hospital he was born at was just outside the Panama Canal zone at the time.
See....we can do this ALL DAY LONG....
But the truth remains...born on US soil? NATURAL BORN CITIZEN....the rest is veiled racism and/or idealogical fever hate masking as legitimate
concern.
In the early and mid part of the last century there were a ton of "scientists" and "doctors" who mocked up research to show that African Americans
were less than whites. It provided cover for racists. This whole birther argument is just a modern rendition of those tactics and it is offensive not
just to liberals or African Americans...but to humanity. It is a lot of hot air aimed at convincing people that the black man in office is "not like
us"...Nothing more...
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