From the Obama File
What’s interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a “natural-born” citizen is the child of American citizen parents.
Senate Judicial Committee Chairman Says Obama Not Eligible — And Obama Agrees On April 10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a ‘natural born Citizen,’ as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for president. Sen. McCaskill knew Obama was not a U.S. Citizen, that’s why she introduced this bill — dressing it up to look like it was in Sen. John McCain’s cause.
It was during the bill’s hearing that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement:
“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy. “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied.
“That is mine, too,” said Leahy.
What’s interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a “natural born” citizen is the child of American citizen parents.
Parents — that’s two. That’s BOTH parents.
Every time the words, “citizen” and “parent,” are used by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, “citizens” and “parents,” is used. The plural case is the operative case.
It is Sen. Leahy’s opinion — his own recorded words, in a formal Senate Resolution and on his U. S. Senate website — that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief, regardless of his birthplace.
Obama had one American parent –singular — his mother. His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain.
Obama, himself, “at birth,” was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain — he says so on his own campaign website. This fact introduces the concept of “divided loyalties,” — the reason the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place — a fact that further underlines Obama’s ineligibility.
The source of this information is Sen. Leahy’s own website. The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself; the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec. Chertoff’s testimony.
The plural word “parents” is used four times. When used to identify the parents, the word “citizens” is used five times. That’s nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the eligibility requirement. There is NO PLACE in any of these four documents where the singular case of “parent” or “citizen” is used.
The real purpose of this bill was to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the requirements of being a “natural born citizen” by the Democratic Party leadership — paving the way for an Obama run.
Both Leahy and Chertoff avoid addressing the “in the US mainland” (jus solis) element of the eligibility requirement and focus solely on parentage (Jus sanguinis) in making their arguments and by doing so bring focus to the fundamental reason Obama is not qualified. He had one American parent and one foreign parent. Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen — no matter where he was born.
Obama is a co-signer of this resolution. So, I guess he too agrees that one needs two American parents to be eligible for POTUS — except he doesn’t care — after all, he’s the Obamamessiah. Rules don’t apply to him.
Title 8 of the US code, Chapter 12, section 1401 is what currently defines who is and who is not a natural born citizen of the United States. The first person it defines as a natural born citizen is “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;”
Since Barak Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii (which we have a birth certificate to prove) and Hawaii was made a state in 1959, Barak Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States.
Reference;
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401—-000-.html
On a personal note, shame on you people. If you don’t like him, don’t vote for him in 2012, but don’t try and discredit his entire presidency with this conspiracy-theory crap. When Michael Moore challenged Bush’s military record in Fahrenheit 911, I didn’t like that either. This is a two way street, just like everything in politics. You’re all horrible hypocrites, and I’m ashamed of you.
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yo Matthew suggest you do a little more homework. It’s about the 21 little very important words you left out. His father was a British Citizen, Obama’s crew put the fake one up on the White House dot gov website why do you suppose he did that? How difficult would it be to get something like this cranked out? Did you forget former Governor now senator Neil Abacrombie said he would put a stop to all this nonsense and get it from the health department only to be told it’s not there? This guy has been involved in more high crimes and misdemeanors that all presidents combined in recent history he makes Nixon’s Watergate. Nice quote from FDR shame he never quite understood it. Factually his stupid policy economically caused the Depression to last 7-8 years longer that it should have. What did he do? Raise taxes and increase government spending. We are hypocrites and you are ashamed of us (me)? Discredit his entire presidency? Now those remarks are precious. Your comments are welcome here because you commented with out making a total fool out of yourself. Your boy is done!
Poor Mathew Nationals and Natural are spelled Differently and your link is not even about Natural Born “Citizens” only who is a National and/or “citizens” <note the caps on the C's<
ROTFLMAO Marcus, usually this is a free fire zone and we don’t care about spelling. I do hold bed wetters to a higher standing and thanks for catching my errant ways. Never forget people that think like Matthew, walk among us and they vote early and often. Greatly appreciate your comments I’m J.C.
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Indeed, this is and has been a done deal from the get go. Elected officials refuse to do their job all cowards.
Did anyone save the You Tube of the exchange between Laehy and Chertoff? I can’t seem to find it anywhere, but I remember seeing it.
Eric
Eric I’ll check but I bet it has been taken down. J.c.
Matthew wrote; “Title 8 of the US code, Chapter 12, section 1401 is what currently defines who is and who is not a “natural born citizen” of the United States.” Are you joking?
I read section 1401 and the term “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” is not included in that section. Why did you lie about this? The Constitution does use this term and it does have a specific meaning, but one would have to pull their head out of BHO’s bum long enough to find it’s definition, as follows:
Law of Nations, 1758 law book defines “natural born citizen” ~~~and~~~
http://countryfirst.bravehost.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1169 ~~~and~~~ 1874 case Minor v. Happersett, SCOTUS affirmed the definition of “Natural Born Citizen” as defined in Vattel’s Law of Nation. SCOTUS expressed their opinion a full six years after the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, so the 14th. does not apply to “Natural Born” citizenship. ~~~and~~~
The British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section-5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom
and Colonies by descent if HIS FATHER is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth. (BHO Senior was British so Jr. is ALSO British) which is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
NOTE: 1) The U.S. Code never supersedes the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution would have to be amended in order for Barack Hussein Obama to be legally eligible to serve as POTUS. 2) It does not matter if his mother was an American citizen. 3) It does not matter if BHO was born on U.S. soil. 4) It does not matter if BHO has a birth certificate. 5) It does not matter that he is an American citizen. 6) What does matter is the BRITISH NATIONALITY OF HIS FATHER and that fact, my poor uninformed friend Matthew makes BHO ineligible. 7) Did you really quote that would be dictator FDR… you really are messed-up Mat. Can’t you spot a Socialist or are you one of THEM??? Enjoy the truth.
PS: cut & paste this; CHESTER ARTHUR CONCEALED HE WAS A BRITISH SUBJECT AT BIRTH – the first British usurper in the Oval Office.
“Facts are Facts” & “The Truth Shall Set You Free”
Thank you very much.
Law of Nations, 1758 law book defines “natural born citizen”
Postby Mountain Publius Goat on Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:43 pm
Law of Nations, 1758 law book defines “natural born citizen”
Legal scholars and studiers of the founding of our country and the framers of our Constitution reference this book as a core, contemporaneously written legal reference book, The Law of Nations, used by the framers of our Constitution. It was written in 1758 and was used as a college text book in America from c1770 on. Ben Franklin received three copies of the French edition from the editor Dumas in 1775 for use by Franklin and the Continental Congress. It has a section #212, in Book 1 Chapter 19 thereof, which deals with defining “natural born” citizenship. Here is the link to the book at Amazon.
The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law
Quote of section #212, Chapter 19, Book 1, Law of Nations, by Vattel:
“§ 212. Citizens and natives. The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country. “
Why Chester Arthur was qualified to be Vice President! We Still have no clue where Obama was born.
At the time of the birth of the future president, Arthur’s father was an Irish subject of the United Kingdom of Scottish descent, who naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1843
Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President under James Garfield. Although Garfield was mortally wounded by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, he did not die until September 19 of that year, at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885.
The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps. The Constitution authorizes the Congress to do create clarifying legislation in Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; the Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, also allows the Congress to create law regarding naturalization, which includes citizenship.
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in the gaps left by the Constitution. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”
Anyone born inside the United States *
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
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The first entry here (from Matthew) is a bald faced lie… that section does not define who or what a “natural born citizen” is … of constitution fame… it merely addresses nationals and citizens… nothing about naturalized or natural born or dual citizenship recognized by the vast majority of the world.
Classic left wing shenanniiggans… this means that ignoring this is not that. An intellectually dishonest left wing ploy/spin.
Obama’s father has rights, and according to the laws coverning him and ‘his’ countrymen (British Nationality Act 1948 in effect at that time, “…where ever his children are born they are the nationality of the father…”)… maybe its because he is a black man the democrats want to disenfranchise him and his rights… obviously there are a bunch of racists in the democrat party.
Furthermore, Obama himself signed documents while enrolling at Occidental College identifiying himself as an INDONESIAN NATIONAL… that is why those college records are sealed. Hardly the actions of a natural born citizen… he is a fraud… a left wing construct… a dope smoking, cocain snorting, youth according to his own books…
How is it his mother attended college in Washington state less than two weeks after he was supposedly born in Hawaii… they did not return to Hawaii until after his ‘father’ left the island for an ivy league school on the east coast… (a dead beat dad for sure)… but the timeline clearly shows the Gov of Hawaii was lying about spending time with them as a family while they were all in Hawaii at the same time (mom, dad and child)… when that never actually happened.
Obama has committed purjury in all 50 states when he did sign election docutments stating: “I am a natural born citizen” (which suggests he has no ties/allegences to other countries)… having also signed documents for college stating “I am an Indonesian…” … he could have registered as an American (and should have if he was one) but choose not too… and that tells it all.