Yes it would have been. Good thing we didn’t.
The fact that his mother was a minor is irrelevant. He was born in America to a parent who was an American citizen. The Fourteenth Amendment applies. Barack Obama is, and always has been, a natural-born citizen of the USA.
That’s not what “jurisdiction” means, in this case. Here is a link that may be helpful.
http://federalistblog.us/2007/09/revisiting_subject_to_the_jurisdiction.html
Obama Hussein Sr. was not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States because he was a citizen of Kenya.
What a fanciful fabrication of history. Too bad it has no relevance in the real world, a place you have not resided since 1964.
Did I mention that Barry Soetoro was an Indonesian citizen?
To say that Barry is a US citizen is, perhaps, arguable. To say that he is an American is just too much of a stretch. The man did not even know how many states there were in the union, for Christ’s sake. He was not raised in the US, he knows nothing about the US, but you elected him to run it. And you call me stupid?
Yes, we do. It’s nice to see that you are capable of getting something right for a change.
How long did it take you to come up with that one?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone who claims that 100 years of Supreme Court decisions regarding the fourteenth amendment are wrong, wrong, WRONG! is just too mallet-headed to reason with. Fortunately, bloviating about the citizenship of the president is harmless, and keeps the lunatics occupied while adults are making good government.
And now we can return to the point I was making before we were sidetracked:
Since you declined to rebut my cites, I think we can safely conclude you agree that the Tea Party has so little regard for the constitution, they can’t wait to change it to suit their own interests at the expense of the majority of the country. Right? Progress!
We’re at war with Muslims?
Wow, your cogent argument has convinced me! None of these people had anything whatsoever to do with that trillion dollar war that got run for free this past decade? None of them asked us all to foot the bill for their death and torture fetish? None of them decided to join the tea party so as to try to kite on the obligations they have already foisted on all American citizens?
Well then, party on self-reliant dudes and dudettes!
The rest of us can only marvel at your Christ-like purity of essence.
Please avoid using hate speech in the future.
Gfactor
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Good luck. Go to sleep for a few hours and by the time you get back this thread has veritable mountains of new ignorance to shovel through. It’s gonna take me hours to get back to such a finely honed degree of snarkitude. It could be worth it, though; this thread contains some of my finest work of late.
Wanting to amend the Constitution is wrong? That’s a revelation.
I, for one, admire this man almost as much as he admires himself.
Would anyone else like to jump in and congratulate Robot Arm on his words of wit? Kiss his ass? Suck his cock?
Hey, if it was good enough for Thomas Jefferson and all his slaves, it’s should be good enough for the Tea Baggers.
Death and torture fetish? I can’t believe I missed out on that!
And it was sponsored by the Tea Party, you say? I knew there was something I liked about those guys.
Morella’s insulting me. Thanks for going to all that extra trouble, sweetie; it feels like I never left.
It is inconsistent with the Tea Party mantra of governing by the constitution, if you really don’t like it much.
At least you admit that is what they want to do, instead of denying as you did before.
Fascinating to see you using the definition of “top marginal tax rate” to argue against my citation of top marginal tax rates. Moron.
And do you know the result of the ongoing reductions in the top marginal tax rates? Guess what—the result is “a much larger percentage of the population is paying a much larger share of their income in taxes”. All of us except the most wealthy, who pay a whole lot less.
You and Morella deserve each other.
Discrediting the founding fathers is an important step forward toward Communism.