According to this Hillary may end up being the Democrat’s nominee.
Barack Obama is not legally a US natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth; a law that was in effect between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, when the law was changed.
… Senator Obama may very well be disqualified as the Democratic candidate in the upcoming Presidential campaign.
Presidential office requires the person elected to be a natural-born United States citizen if the child was not born to two US citizen parents.
US Law very clearly stipulates: “If only one parent was a US citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.”
Barack Obama’s father was not a US citizen, and Obama’s mother was only 18 when he was born, which means although she had been a US citizen for 10 years, his mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years prior to Barack Obama’s birth.
In order for her child to have been a natural-born US citizen, his mother would have had to be 21 at the time of his birth.
In essence, Mrs. Obama was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic US citizenship.
His mother would have needed to have been 16+5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama’s birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen.
Barack Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office of President under current law.
At best, Barack Obama is only a naturalized US citizen.
This is an issue that must be clarified before the election.
Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President as is the case with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I’m surprised you fell for this.
According to Snopes this has been going around for a while. It’s wrong:
“The qualifications listed above are moot because the refer to someone born outside the United States. Since Obama was born in Hawaii they do not apply to him.”
The child of an illegal immigrant born in the US would be qualified to be president, assuming he or she met the other requirements of residency and age.
Comment by Daryl — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
I don’t know if “fell for it” is quite the right words. I didn’t investigate it but I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to change anything. If it was actually true every conservative website, radio show, and TV network would have been yelling it to everyone that would listen.
Comment by Don — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Ooooo. And with that comment you tied Donna!
Comment by Don — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Oh, we can’t let that happen. 137.
Comment by Donna — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
Oh yes we can!
Comment by Daryl — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
That’s interesting. My ads are all talking about “Obama Exposed” and “Obama Dissected”. One also says “Get a Free Obama Button”.
Comment by Don — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 8:49 pm