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Sun Dec 18, 2011, 12:57 AM Dec 2011

BiRTHER ALERT: Honestly people need to have a basic understanding of Definitions [View all]

Another Birth is at it again, this time in Georgia:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/17/georgia-birther-suit-attempts-to-remove-obama-from-2012-ballot/

Georgia State Representative J. Mark Hatfield (R-Waycross) will plead the case before the Office of State Administrative Hearings on behalf of Mr. Kevin R. Powell of Duluth, Georgia, who filed the suit on the grounds that “Obama does not satisfy the ‘natural born Citizen’ requirement of Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution. Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a native of Kenya and a British subject who never became a United States citizen.”

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How stupid are these people that they don't understand that The PARENTS DO NOT HAVE TO BE AMERICAN CITIZENS BUT THE PERSON RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT DOES!!! ALSO A NATURAL CITIZEN is one of a couple ways.

NOW Please correct me if I am wrong BUT I was always taught that a person became a citizen by

1) Being born on U.S. Soil or Territory. A person who is born in the American Embassy of Whosville is on American soil and therefore an american citizen.

2) IF one of the person's parents is an American citizen they become a natural citizen.


So how does someone born on an american soil to one parent of U.S. citizenship not able to be president.


INSTEAD of spending 5 hours a day teaching kids how to past a test JUST so the school district can get federal funding. JUST MAYBE our schools should be teaching kids important things like logical reasoning and civics and geography and than maybe when these kids go home at night some of these births just might be re-learned the constitution and just basic understanding of how our country works.

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Kinda throws the whole Mz Pip Dec 2011 #1
Willard's father George was born in Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico.... Historic NY Dec 2011 #2
Really? Then those birther nuts better be just as on this treestar Dec 2011 #20
oh no! this better not go to trial! if people find out obama's black, we're DOOOMMED! unblock Dec 2011 #3
I thought you did have to born on American soil. By that definition would a person that is doc03 Dec 2011 #4
You could be born on Mars and if one parent is a US citizen, the child is a citizen. Mnemosyne Dec 2011 #5
+1 - nt Ohio Joe Dec 2011 #6
Not in 1961 jberryhill Dec 2011 #7
Sorry if I am dense today kind of tired. But say I'm 21 years old born in the U.S. and lived in the Justice wanted Dec 2011 #9
Yes, that is correct jberryhill Dec 2011 #10
Minor correction Jim Lane Dec 2011 #13
Although ultimately... jberryhill Dec 2011 #14
Thank you, jberry. I was not aware of that. It all boils down to willful ignorance in the end. n/t Mnemosyne Dec 2011 #18
It made things convenient jberryhill Dec 2011 #19
Your going to complicated things for the birthers they haven't gotten into the space age thing yet.. Historic NY Dec 2011 #23
I want a Constitutional Amendment krispos42 Dec 2011 #8
I like that jberryhill Dec 2011 #11
Just think of the jobs it would create! n/t krispos42 Dec 2011 #12
You're a lackey of the corporate establishment. Jim Lane Dec 2011 #15
10Kg? That includes the pumpkins in Punkin' Chunking. hobbit709 Dec 2011 #16
Not enough branding krispos42 Dec 2011 #22
If you get hit by one of those pumpkins fired by an air cannon, it will do more than hurt. hobbit709 Dec 2011 #24
The same people that cannot spell "moron" correctly, or who say "unalienable" rights Gman Dec 2011 #17
racists just don't give up the fight, do they? spanone Dec 2011 #21
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