Someone please tell me that this is true.
Frank, let me ask you an easier question than you asked me.
Let’s say there’s a piece of floating equipment used to drill oil wells. It floats out to where the well will be drilled, and then these legs come out of the bottom of it and touch the ocean floor, at which point the thing doesn’t float any more, it’s just sitting on the legs. It drills the oil well, and then the legs come back up and it floats away.
Is this thing a “vessel” for purposes of the Jones Act?
This question is easier than the one you asked me because there are hundreds of cases on point, discussing what is and is not a vessel.
So, yes or no question-------come on Frank, what’s your answer?
I read your post, shit for brains. Are you actually saying that you are that stupid? That you pay so little attention to current events and to evidence that “how the fuck should I know” is actually and seriously an honest answer for you?
Thank heavens that you’re not my tax lawyer. “How the fuck should I know,” indeed.
Out of curiosity, which premise is your net persona not sure of, Rand Rover? That a person born in America to an American mother is a natural born citizen? Or that Obama is such a person?
Yes.
It’s not, in fact, an easier question. The question of the constitutional eligibility of a candidate for President of the U. S. rests only on two points: one must be 35 years of age, and one must be a natural born citizen of the United States. Both of these points are explicitly and clearly stated in the Constitution.
Any citizen can read and understand the Constitution. Oddly enough, tax lawyers can read and understand maritime law. Go figure.
So is that thing a vessel or not, buddy? Simple yes or no question.
I think it was the other way around.
First, you got the requirements fucked up a bit, smart guy. There’s also a 14-year US residency requirement, and back in the dizzay the POTUS didn’t have to be a NBC if he was a US citizen when the constitution was ratified.
So, Frank, please share with the rest of us, since you seem to know: what does “natural born citizen” mean?
Barack Obama was born, in Hawaii, in 1961.
Is Barack Obama constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States?
Good question. It depends on the definition of “natural born citizen.” You seem to know that definition–why don’t you share with us?
Barack Obama was born, in Hawaii, in 1961.
Is Barack Obama constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States?
Is that jack-up oil rig thing a “vessel” under the Jones Act? Surely everyone knows what a vessel is, right?
Barack Obama was born, in Hawaii, in 1961.
Is Barack Obama constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States?
In 2004 the two Republican senators from Oklahoma- James Inhofe and Don Nickels, along with Mary Landrieu (D-LA) proposed the Natural Born Citizen Act:
It died in committee.
Yes. Assuming he’s a natural born citizen.
Christ. Rand Rover is here.
I get bored with one dimensional highjacks. They bore me, so I am going to call out to the board to bring in Der Tris and Dan Blather to extol the benefits of atheism regarding citizenship and kanicbird and lekat to tell us how we need to touch the other side in order to understand residency.
How am I the one hijacking exactly? I think Frank’s the hijacker–I just asked gonzo for a cite (which we’ll never see) and Frank went full metal retard on my ass.
cite?
Why are you talking about Chewbacca?
The answer to your question is no, by the way, since it isn’t transporting any cargo or passengers.
Now answer this and quit weaseling :
Do you think it’s plausible or likely that Barack Obama was born outside the United States and that a large scale conspiracy has been involved to conceal this from the American People?
Your self-serving profession of a lack of certainty about the precise definition of a “Natural Born Citizen” notwithstanding, are you satisified beyond any reasonable questionat all that Barack Obama was born in the United States?