BORN IN THE USA? (With Video)

Obama's McCain resolution demands 'American' parents
President's 'birth certificate' confirms dad Kenyan citizen

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Posted: April 29, 2011
8:13 pm Eastern

Perhaps it's a good thing that the U.S. Senate didn't take up a resolution on Barack Obama's status as a "natural born Citizen" in 2008 – as members did for GOP candidate Sen. John McCain while both were seeking the U.S. presidency.

The Democrat might not have qualified under the requirements the Senate, including Obama, a co-sponsor and then-senator, put in the resolution, including the demand that the candidate have "American citizen" parents.

The candidates' circumstances were not the same: Questions were raised over McCain's eligibility under the Constitution's demand that a president be a "natural born Citizen," because he was born to American citizen military parents while they are on assignment overseas

The specific allegations have been placed online by YouTube participate PPSimmons, who previously has analyzed and provided commentary on the issues of eligibility to the presidency:

Questions over Obama's have arisen because of his almost total concealment of documentation from his life – including his passport records, kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records and schedules, medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license and adoption records.

Specifically, because of the lack of documentation, it was suspected he might not have been born in Hawaii, or might have another circumstance that would preclude his eligibility under the Constitution's "natural born Citizen" requirement, such as a loss of that status by taking Indonesia citizenship during his childhood, or relinquishing that status by using a foreign passport during his college years. Or that he didn't qualify because of a dual citizenship inherited from a foreign national father.

He only released a copy of his "Certificate of Live Birth" from Hawaii this week because, he said, those questions were distracting him from the nation's problems, such as massive spending, job instability and others.

But plaintiffs and lawyers who earlier brought a lawsuit against Obama alleging he is ineligible to be president, say he failed to meet the "natural born Citizen" requirement because his father is a foreign national, and the understanding of "natural born Citizen" at the time the Constitution was written was a citizen offspring of citizen parents.

That's also what Obama, as a cosponsor, included in his Senate Resolution 511 in 2008 regarding McCain.

The statement includes two references to "Americans" as parents or "American citizens" as parents.

"Whereas there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country's President," it states.

Leahy issued a statement at the time that praised the action, but mentioned Obama only as a cosponsor and did not address questions over his eligibility.

His statement cited The New York Times for "publishing a report calling into question the legality of McCain's presidential run based on whether he is a 'natural born Citizen,' as required by the Constitution."

"This bipartisan resolution erases any doubt that Senator McCain is eligible to run for president," said Leahy. "The Senate was right to quickly pass this measure, and we can now put to rest any question of his eligibility."

"There's no question in my mind that Senator McCain is eligible to become president, and I'm proud that my colleagues in the Senate came together on this resolution to help quickly put this debate to rest," McCaskill stated at the time.

Leahy's statement was specific on the issue of U.S. parents.

"Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen. I recently asked Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, a former federal judge, if he had any doubts in his mind. He did not," he said then.

The video cited Vattel's The Law of Nations, writings from which the U.S. Founders drew both ideas and definitions. There, "natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens," according to Book 1, Chapter 19, Paragraph 212.



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