President Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast raised the issue of his own eligibility for office – saying that people shouldn’t be questioning his “citizenship.”
Talking about the issue of “civility,” he said, “Now, I am the first to confess I am not always right. Michelle will testify to that. But surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
Obama continues, “Challenging each other’s ideas can renew our democracy. But when we challenge each other’s motives, it becomes harder to see what we hold in common. We forget that we share at some deep level the same dreams – even when we don’t share the same plans on how to fulfill them.”
The questions, however, over Obama’s “citizenship,” actually go to the core of the American republic. Multiple lawsuits have challenged that he is not qualified for the Oval Office under the Constitution’s requirement that U.S. presidents be a “natural born citizen.”
The plaintiffs – who run into the hundreds so far and who still have a number of cases pending at the appellate level – have alleged that failing to meet that constitutional requirement means he actually is a usurper, with no actual authority to be president.
On a forum page at The Hill newspaper, one commenter wrote that the president has only himself to blame for the questions.
Read More: WND
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Re: "HI Attorney General’s office refuses to corroborate Obama’s HI Birth "
The report indicates that she refused to send an e-mail to a birther. Perhaps one reason was that she did not trust the birther to quote her fairly.
Another reason, and it is a good one, is that it would merely be adding a third confirmation to the two that were already issued by the two top officials of the DoH of Hawaii (who are members of a Republican governor's administration."
AT THE TIME OF THE WRITING OF THE CONSTITUTION, which is what counts, Natural Born was used by American leaders to mean "born in the country" ONLY. It never was used by any American writing at the time to mean "born to two citizens." It never was used in any other way than as "born in the country", and that was regardless of whether the parents were citizens or not.
This is still the definition of the vast majority of constitutional experts. For example,
Yale Law Review wrote: "It is well settled that “native-born” citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born. "
And Black's Law Dictionary wrote: "“Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” — Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition