Re: why birtherism might not matter, even if it's true ...
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Peter T. Chattaway < petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > Putting Obama's Kenyan father's name on the birth certificate would make > Obama *not* a natural-born American citizen *only if* his father's > "marriage" to his mother were legally valid. But it isn't. > I think the marriage status would only matter to Kenya as far as whether it considers Obama a natural-born citizen of Kenya. Doesn't make a difference to the US. > Ergo, *it doesn't matter* where Obama was born. > It seems that's debatable. Some differentiate between "citizen at birth" (which Obama certainly was, being born to a US citizen) and "natural-born citizen", which some define solely as being born on US soil. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot