Today the Drudge Report (4/26/11) screams:
SHOCK POLL: ONLY 38% SAY OBAMA ‘DEFINITELY’ BORN IN USA
The all-caps headline links to a USA Today story that quotes that 38 percent figure, courtesy of a new Gallup poll.
For the record, the poll also asked respondents the same question about Donald Trump. Forty-three percent say they are definitely sure he was born in the United States.
did he have to produce a birth certificate?
Remember when a lot of people were gung-ho to change the rule on being born in the U.S. so that that Austrian white hunk and muscle bound buffoon, the great Arnold Schwarzenegger could run for President? Now let’s see, just why wouldn’t they consider that IF indeed a brilliant, compassionate black man happened to want to run for President and he wasn’t born here? What could possibly be the reason….
Note to birthers: I said IF.
The Birth Certificate (which a certificate of live birth isn’t) issue is a diversion that doesn’t even matter. People, politicians, and the media are all confused and hung up by that. Since being a natural born citizen is an objective qualification and requirement of office for the U.S. President, it is important for all U.S. Citizens to undertsand what this term means. Being born in the US is not even what is required unless you are 224 years old since the adoption of the Constitution. What is still required is that a person ne a Natural Born Citizen. The US Constitution Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 – “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.” The “or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution” was added as a grandfather clause to allow people at the time with non US parents, like George Washington, to be elected. So unless you are 224 years old that part no longer applies only leaving “No Person except a natural born Citizen, shall be eligible to the Office of President.” Some people point to the 14th Amendment added later which defines a US Citizen but even John Bingham, author of the 14th Amendment, defined natural born citizenship this way: â┚¬Ã…“It means every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of our Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.â┚¬Ã‚ From an article about 4 Supreme Court cases upholding the definition of Natural Born Citizen – â┚¬Ã…½’The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term â┚¬Ã…“natural born citizenâ┚¬Ã‚ to any other category than â┚¬Ã…“those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereofâ┚¬Ã‚Â. Hence every U.S. Citizen must accept this definition or categorical designation, and fulfil his constitutional duties accordingly. No member of Congress, no judge of the Federal Judiciary, no elected or appointed official in Federal or State government has the right to use any other definition; and if he does, he is acting unlawfully, because unconstitutionally.’ The author of The Law Of Nations which the founders based their intent on – “…natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights…”