Doubts Linger About Obama's Citizenship

In today's story, Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office The Tribune examines allegations about president-elect's 'natural born citizen' status , my colleagues Sara Olkon and James Janega methodically take apart the arguments presented by Robert L. Schulz, chairman of We The People Foundation, in Tribune ads this week.

Here's one passage

• Schulz says that "U.S. law in effect in 1961 [the year of Obama's birth] denied citizenship to any child born in Kenya if the father was Kenyan and the mother was not yet 19 years of age."

If a child is born ... to an American parent outside the U.S., the law at the time would require the U.S. citizen parent to be at least 19, which Obama's mother was not. The provisions of this law were subsequently loosened and made retroactive for government employees serving abroad and their families. It appears that this would not apply to Obama's mother.

Olkon and Janega point out that "the matter would seem to be academic: Hawaiian officials vouch for Obama's birth certificate," but even if it were to turn out that Obama's mother was actually in Kenya when she gave birth to him, the age requirement was and is absurd and unjustifiable; easily remedied, if necessary, with the passage of a retroactive law smilar to the law that applied to "government employees serving abroad and their families."

Schultz is deluded if he thinks the Congress -- even those in Congress who opposed Obama -- or the courts would stand by and allow to unfold the crisis that would ensue if Obama were denied the presidency on a technicality.

bmd wrote:It's interesting that neither of Terry's personalities included the last line of the quoted page.

To wit: "The desperation of you Obamaphobes is amusingly pathetic."

I think that says it all.

Stephanie wrote:

bmd wrote:It's interesting that neither of Terry's personalities included the last line of the quoted page.

To wit: "The desperation of you Obamaphobes is amusingly pathetic."

I think that says it all.

Do you think they're desperation is any more pathetic than your own, bm?

https://gazzfriends.forumotion.com/religion-f11/symbols-symbolism-and-proof-p23868.htm

Armon Ayers wrote:Lebanese files suit to make Obama produce legitimate birth certificate.

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1373

The Lebanese Christian lawyer—who heads an anti-Arab and Islam website—has previously launched a campaign against former president Bill Clinton through a series of news features over the suicide of the White House lawyer Fence Foster in 1993.

bmd wrote:

Armon Ayers wrote:Lebanese files suit to make Obama produce legitimate birth certificate.

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1373

This guy is experienced at tilting at windmills:

The Lebanese Christian lawyer—who heads an anti-Arab and Islam website—has previously launched a campaign against former president Bill Clinton through a series of news features over the suicide of the White House lawyer Fence Foster in 1993.

Armon Ayers wrote:

bmd wrote:

Armon Ayers wrote:Lebanese files suit to make Obama produce legitimate birth certificate.

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1373

This guy is experienced at tilting at windmills:

The Lebanese Christian lawyer—who heads an anti-Arab and Islam website—has previously launched a campaign against former president Bill Clinton through a series of news features over the suicide of the White House lawyer Fence Foster in 1993.

Fence Foster? Was he the one that they found in Marcy Fence Park?