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Jim Lane

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13. Minor correction

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 03:14 AM

Dec 2011

As of Obama's birth in 1961, I thought that the requirement you stated as "at least five of which were after the age of 16" was "at least five of which were after the age of 14". Obama's mother was 18 when he was born but she didn't miss the cutoff by much, IIRC.

Of course, you're quite right that this doesn't matter in terms of his citizenship. It is, however, important that we not mindlessly repeat "you're a citizen if one of your parents was a citizen." For the reason you state (be it five years after age 14 or after age 16), that wasn't the law in 1961, so we do NOT want to be taking issue with the birthers on that grounds.

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