April 29, 2011

The legal case against Obama’s eligibility

Berg doen’t get into the definition of “natural born citizen” here. The Constitution requires that a person to be eligible to be President,must be a “natural born citizen”. The Court would have to decide what that term means as it is ambiguous or uncertain. To do this it would look at the intent of the legislators at the time as disclosed by what they have written. The Federalist papers clearly say that such a person must be born to two U.S. citizens. Obama’s father was not a US citizen. Obama has spent $2 million to avoid a Court dealing with this issue and the Indonesian issue. T. Belman

By Phillip Berg

OBAMA and his “SUPPOSED” LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE

WHAT ABOUT OBAMA’S INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP?

(Lafayette Hill, PA – 04/28/11) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the first Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama on August 21, 2008 challenging Obama’s lack of “Constitutionally Eligibility” to serve as President of the United States stated that Obama’s release of this document that Obama calls his long form Birth Certificate raises further questions of the legitimacy of the document itself. Moreover, even if it were a legitimate birth certificate, which it is not, it still does not answer the question of Obama’s Constitutional Eligibility.

Berg said, “The Birth Certificate issued by Obama on national Television, have missing factors: Mother’s address; length and weight of baby; and where the signature of Stanley Ann Dunham appears, it says “mother or informant”. Additionally, the authenticity of the document itself is already being questioned for many reasons”

Berg continued, “Even if Obama could produce a long form Birth Certificate, which is highly doubted, it fails to answer the questions into Obama’s adoption in Indonesia.”

Berg said, “I have received many calls claiming Obama could not have lost his U.S. citizenship by his mother’s acts of expatriation. In part this is true, however, the Nationality Act of 1940, revised 1952, Section 318(a) states,

    “A former citizen of the United States expatriated through the expatriation of such person’s parent or parents and who has not acquired the nationality of another country by any affirmative act other than the expatriation of his parent or parents may be naturalized upon filing a petition for naturalization before reaching age of Twenty-Five [25] years and upon compliance with all requirements of the naturalization laws with the following exceptions:

    (b) No former citizen of the United States, expatriated through the expatriation of such person’s parent or parents shall be obliged to comply with the requirements of the immigration laws, if he has not acquired the nationality of another country by any affirmative act other than the expatriation of his parent or parents, and if he has come or shall come to the United States before reaching the age of twenty-five years.

    (c) After his naturalization such person shall have the same citizenship status as if he had not been expatriated.”

Berg continues, “Renewing an Indonesian Passport after the age of 18 is an affirmative act, as you are swearing allegiance to another Country. Soetoro/Obama renewed his Indonesian Passport when he traveled to Pakistan that is why he had to stop in Indonesia first. Remember, in 1981, Dunham was divorcing Soetoro in Hawaii and was not in Indonesia. Obama/Soetoro admits to traveling to Indonesia first and then onto Pakistan. Soetoro/Obama claims in his book “Dreams from my father” that he stopped in Indonesia to visit his mother. But again, his mother was not in Indonesia, she was in Hawaii with Maya, divorcing Lolo Soetoro. In addition, the State Department has stated in response to a FOIA [Freedom of Information] request that they do not have a U.S. Passport application on file for Barack H. Obama.”

Berg said, “Despite the above however, Indonesia required Obama/Soetoro to do a bit more upon his 18th birthday. In fact the Indonesian law gives until the age of Twenty-One [21]. Soetoro/Obama would have had to sign an Affidavit relinquishing his Indonesian citizenship and said Affidavit had to be sent to the Indonesian Government before reclaiming any U.S. citizenship he may have once held.

When it comes to the citizenship of individuals in other countries, we are prevented from interfering, Hague Convention 1930. During the late 60?s all the way up until 2006 Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship. In 2006, Indonesia changed their laws to permit dual citizenship; however, Indonesia has had its battles with enforcing their new law permitting dual citizenship.

From the legal research we have done, it appears that Soetoro became an Indonesian citizen. When Soetoro/Obama was approximately four [4] years old his parents divorced and thereafter, Soetoro/Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, married Lolo Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia. Evidence points to the fact that Lolo Soetoro either signed a government form legally ‘acknowledging’ Soetoro/Obama as his son or ‘adopted’ Soetoro, either of which changed any citizenship status Soetoro/Obama had to a “natural” citizen of Indonesia.

At the time Barry Soetoro was in Indonesia, all Indonesian students were required to carry government identity cards or Karty Tanda Pendudaks, as well as family card identification called a Kartu Keluarga. The Kartu Keluarga is a family card which bears the legal names and citizenship status of all family members.

Soetoro/Obama was registered in a public school as an Indonesian citizen by the name of Barry Soetoronot allow foreign students to attend their public schools in the late 1960’s or 1970’s, and any time a child was registered for a public school, the child’s name and citizenship status were verified through the Indonesian Government.

See no way for Soetoro/Obama to have attended school in Jakarta, Indonesia legally unless he was an Indonesian citizen, as Indonesia was under tight rule and was a Police State. See Constitution of Republic of Indonesia (Undang-Undang Dasar Republik Indonesia 1945), Law No. 62 of 1958. These facts indicate that Obama/Soetoro is an Indonesian citizen, and therefore he is not eligible to be President of the United States. and his father was listed as Lolo Soetoro, M.A according to the Indonesian school records. Indonesia did Constitution of Republic of Indonesia (Undang-Undang Dasar Republik Indonesia 1945), Chapter 13, Law No. 62 of 1958 (all citizens of Indonesia have a right to education).

Under Indonesian law, when a male acknowledges a child as his son, it deems the son, in this case Soetoro/Obama, an Indonesian State citizen. See Constitution of Republic of Indonesia, Law No. 62 of 1958 concerning Immigration Affairs and Indonesian Civil Code (Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Perdata) (KUHPer) (Burgerlijk Wetboek voor Indonesie).

Furthermore, under the Indonesian adoption law, once an Indonesian citizen adopts a child, the adoption severs the child’s relationship to the birth parents, and the adopted child is given the same status as a natural child and the child takes the name of his step-father, in this case, Soetoro. See Indonesian Constitution, Article 2.

The Indonesian citizenship law was designed to prevent apatride (stateless) or bipatride (dual) citizenship. Indonesian regulations recognized neither apatride nor bipatride (stateless or dual) citizenship. Since Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship; neither did the United States (since the United States only permitted dual citizenship when ‘both’ countries agree); and since Obama/Soetoro was a “natural” citizen of Indonesia, the United States would not step in or interfere with the laws of Indonesia. Hague Convention of 1930.”

As a result of Soetoro/Obama’s Indonesian ‘natural’ citizenship status, Soetoro/Obama could never regain U.S. ‘natural born’ status, if he in fact he ever held such, which we doubt. Soetoro/Obama could have only become ‘naturalized’ if the proper paperwork were filed with the U.S. State Department, after going through U.S. Immigration upon his return to the United States; in which case, Soetoro/Obama would have received a Certification of Citizenship indicating ‘naturalized’.
Berg continued, “Regardless, we have been unable to locate any records indicating that Soetoro/Obama attempted to and/or actually did take the proper steps through the State Department in order to be here in our Country legally”

Further, there is no evidence that Soetoro/Obama ever ‘legally’ changed his name from Barry Soetoro to Barack Hussein Obama – therefore his legal name is still ‘Barry Soetoro’.

Posted by Ted Belman @ 11:18 am | 78 Comments »

78 Responses to The legal case against Obama’s eligibility

  1. BlandOatmeal says:

    There’s an old Chinese proverb, “Three men make a tiger“. The meaning behind it, is that if enough people say something is true, even if a person knows the thing to be untrue, he will be swayed by the opinions of the others. In the US, we have every major news outlet saying that Barry Soetoro is actually Barack Obama, and is a natural-born US citizen; even though, as Mr. Berg points out, we know this to probably be untrue.

  2. ArnoldHarris says:

    I’m mostly a radical centrist. Sometimes I vote for Republicans. Sometimes I vote for Democrats. It all depends on the issues and what I think of the candidates.

    Ever since he became part of the daily news, I have regarded that man as just another Chicago ward healer, but in his case pumped up by a pack of Hollywood liberals and lots of money from rats like George Soros, whom I think is a thoroughly rotten influence in the political affairs of western civilization.

    So neither I nor my wife voted for Obama in 2008, and we certainly will not do so in 2012.

    His latest stunt involves what people all across the country think is an easily faked birth certificate, put together with superimposed layers in Photoshop or some other modern computer graphics software. One thing about the modern age of the Internet, Facebook and all the rest is that nobody ever again can get away with that type of crap. And if you have any secrets in your life, someone you never even heard of will find a way to strip you as naked as that CBS woman reporter who had her clothes torn off by a mindless and vicious mob of Cairo Arabs a couple of months ago.

    I came to a conclusion some time ago that Obama was not born in the United States. I’ve read the comments of his Kenyan father’s family who all say his American mother, Stanley Ann Obama, who gave birth to Barack Hussein Obama II at age 18, was in Kenya the day it happened. Since a bunch of Kenyan peasants have no particular reason to lie about these matters, I believe them. For me, this was also confirmed by a news report that the US State Department, following a freedom of information court order that had been long delayed, released information on Stanley Ann’s passport. The information included a regretful official comment that the official trail of one of her trips, which involved a Kenyan visa stamp that would have placed her there in time for BHO2?s birthday, had been destroyed. For some unknown reason, they reported. That told me all I needed to know.

    Governments lie all the time, and they always do so at the command of the Mister Big of the moment, who commands the services of dirty trick crews who would have put a smile on the faces of Richard Nixon just before the Watergate break-in, and maybe one Josif Stalin as well, whenever he needed to cook up some “evidence” against one of his own Politburo members whom he intended to have liquidated after a brief show trial.

    So here’s my summation of what I think we’ve got here. I think he was born in Kenya, and not long afterward was carried off to Indonesia by his weird 1960s mother, where he was raised more or less the same as any Moslem: Sun’a, I presume. Then in later years, his handlers probably thought it more convenient to stick him into a black leftist south side Chicago church, under the ministrations of the Reverend Dr Wright, whose hate-Whitey and hate-America outlook doesn’t much differ from that of any of his counterparts in the more hateful end of Islam.

    I could have voted for Barack Hussein Obama if he were a real Moslem. Or a real Christian. Or real Jew, real Atheist, or whatever. And his being black made no damned difference to me. I spent my childhood in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, which was one of the few racially integrated places in the whole of America in 1939 and 1940 when I was a kindergarten age child there. And these days, I’ve become a fan of Allen West, who’s an honored US military veteran, a conservative, and an elected official, in Florida, I think.

    But Barack Hussein Obama II? I wouldn’t even use him as a mop to clean my kitchen floor. Because I don’t even remotely respect liars and chiselers.

    So, like it or lump it folks. Because that’s precisely how I feel.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

  3. Catarin says:

    Why was I destined to live on earth at the same time as the stupidest people, who carry on like the biggest villain ever born, worse than Hitler, is Barak Obama. Historians will have fun with this, having to add chapters to list all the bullies whose main goal is to get their name before the public. This Berg Bully is too cute for words. Go ahead and make asses out of yourselves if you must. Maybe it will get a laugh in some bored future where people are desperate to point fingers of blame at the past.

    This is race-baiting. I suppose it was predictable it would happen, when the U.S. is suffering from the greatest dumbing down in its history. Really, I swear some of these Republicans are Commies…

  4. BlandOatmeal says:

    An insightful post, Arnold. You seem to have investigated the matter intelligently, unlike others.

  5. If we (anti-Obama voters) put a tenth as much effort into getting him impeached for the illegal lotteries he ran to fund his campaign, he would already have gone back to wherever he came from and Biden would be President (unfortunately, but that is how it works).

  6. One thing I noticed in this whole Obama-Citizenship episode is the frequent use of words such as “racist”, “racism”, “anti-Black” which are thrown at everyone who dares question the validity of the documents issued by the the White House, or the blanket support of Obama by the mainstream media.

    This reminds me of many conferences and panel discussions organized by Muslim/Arab/Palestinian groups in campus. The minute anyone in the audience raises a question which is not in tune with the standard anti-Israel/anti-U.S. views of the panelists, the partisan crowd in the hall yells in unison “you are a racist!” and shuts off the debate.

  7. robinfox2012 says:

    Anyone from that era had their baby footprints or fingerprints/handprints placed on the back of the ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH.

    There are no baby Obama footprints on an ORIGINAL DOCUMENT.

    The CIA and INTEL agencies have the ability to create an identity for anyone and this LONG FORM that Obama produced was produced by a government computer software program – a hoax. Only gullible people would accept this as a legitimate birth certificate.

    The signatures are too perfect on a modern document. You also have to look at the typeset/typewriter used in that hospital from that era and verify the signatures as a match.

    It is possible that government computer hackers have the ability to mimic original signatures in order to produce this FAKE document that Obama spent $3 million in court fees NOT to produce! OVer two years Obama spent $3 million in court to not have to present his long form and NOW it suddenly appears with him smiling like you are all fools!

    You won’t be able to prove it though – this is Obama’s government clowns putting this together. But the real argument is that this would have impeached Obama according to the US Constitution and once again, Obama lies, cheats and steals and exploits the American people.

    My commentary provided:
    http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/robinfox2018

    LET ME ADD: That what MATTERS is Obama’s loyalty to Israel and America – he has NONE. He has aided and abetted terror organizations who have murdered Israeli citizens.

    That should immpeach Obama! Just the billions he donated to Hamas should be enough to prosecute him.

  8. bernard ross says:

    “….confirmed by a news report that the US State Department, following a freedom of information court order that had been long delayed, released information on Stanley Ann’s passport. The information included a regretful official comment that the official trail of one of her trips, which involved a Kenyan visa stamp that would have placed her there in time for BHO2?s birthday, had been destroyed. For some unknown reason, they reported. ”
    Arnold, it would be nice to have more details, facts on this incident(eg the news report source, etc.). I thought that the only way you lose US citizenship is to formally renounce it at an embassy, or the like. However, there definitely appears to be evidence pointng to an Indonesian passport acquired as an adult. this would probably jibe with withheld school records showing him as a foreign student.

  9. Sorry, but the time to shut the barn door was before the horse got out. The issue of whether Obama is eligible to be president is now MOOT because he IS president, and it would take impeachment proceedings to even try to oust him, at which he would have the defense that the American People, Congress, and the Supreme Court have already granted him an EXEMPTION :)

    Study Obama’s shady past the most powerful way with the Historyscoper:

    http://tinyurl.com/obamascope

  10. AmericanEagle says:

    Ted Belman writes:
    Berg doen’t get into the definition of “natural born citizen” here. The Constitution requires that a person to be eligible to be President,must be a “natural born citizen”. The Court would have to decide what that term means as it is ambiguous or uncertain. To do this it would look at the intent of the legislators at the time as disclosed by what they have written. The Federalist papers clearly say that such a person must be born to two U.S. citizens. Obama’s father was not a US citizen. Obama has spent $2 million to avoid a Court dealing with this issue and the Indonesian issue.

    Give it up, Ted. This issue is dead horse. The Federalist Papers are not the Constitution. The SCOTUS has already refused to hear these charges – TWICE. Case closed.

    Arnold Harris writes:
    I came to a conclusion some time ago that Obama was not born in the United States. I’ve read the comments of his Kenyan father’s family who all say his American mother, Stanley Ann Obama, who gave birth to Barack Hussein Obama II at age 18, was in Kenya the day it happened. Since a bunch of Kenyan peasants have no particular reason to lie about these matters, I believe them.

    To begin with, this is false. Secondly, there were TWO birth announcements in the news papers in Honolulu.

    So, like it or lump it folks. Because that’s precisely how I feel.

    Who gives a crap how you “feel” – what counts are the facts.

    RobinFox writes:
    Anyone from that era had their baby footprints or fingerprints/handprints placed on the back of the ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH.
    There are no baby Obama footprints on an ORIGINAL DOCUMENT.

    This is how IDIOTIC this issue has become, as if there are not a host of legitimate issues against Obama’s STUPID policies.

    Historyscoper writes:
    Sorry, but the time to shut the barn door was before the horse got out. The issue of whether Obama is eligible to be president is now MOOT because he IS president, and it would take impeachment proceedings to even try to oust him, at which he would have the defense that the American People, Congress, and the Supreme Court have already granted him an EXEMPTION

    FINALLY, someone with a soupcon of brains.

  11. Catarin says:

    Of all people, Jews know what race baiting is. When the only president with black blood becomes the only president whose credentials are subjected to KKK scrutiny, when proof has been offered to the contrary, that’s race baiting. Don’t complain when it happens to you. Why doesn’t the person talking about foot prints on birth certificates research it? We never guess, we look it up. Too bad your grade schools didn’t teach that like mine did.

    So you call the State of Hawaii forgers? You call the governor of Hawaii a liar, who knew Barak’s parents at school and remembers when he was born? I’m sure the guv could assemble classmates and former people who also knew Barak’s parents and remembers when he was born. Maybe a reunion of sorts, where everyone avers they knew the dead parents and the baby, maybe they could sign notarized statements… So you also call Hawaii’s newspapers corrupt in printing Obama’s long ago birth announcement?

    The gentleman above, Historyscoper, is right. Why are you bothering? It’s kind of like I sometime think. People who are acting stupid are likely to get an incurable disease so they really have something to worry about. There are many of us who like Obama. I suffered through 8 years of stupidity with George Bush and the demented Newt Gingrich before that. You can suffer through Obama.

  12. Shy Guy says:

    Catarin says:
    April 30, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    When the only president with black blood becomes the only president whose credentials are subjected to KKK scrutiny, when proof has been offered to the contrary, that’s race baiting.

    Grow up.

  13. yamit82 says:

    Catarin says:
    April 30, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    When the only president with black blood becomes the only president whose credentials are subjected to KKK scrutiny, when proof has been offered to the contrary, that’s race baiting.

    He’s Black? I hadn’t noticed. He has big dumbo ears though. Those I noticed.

  14. Catarin says:

    Hi 82. The better to fly with,,,

    I was watching Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who’s been in the news business his whole life, and he remembers Obama from ten years ago, saying who the hell has a name like that! It was Lawrence Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, who told him about this guy Obama who was so damned smart it was unbelievable. It is true very smart people, like Albert Einstein, can see things normal people can’t. Maybe they can see farther, deeper or wider… Albert said he imagined he was on a flying carpet going through space and looked around to get his ideas. I tried it but everything looked like Star Trek.

    Obama can take consolation in the fact Abe Lincoln was attacked like he’s being attacked. Some newspapers called him ape and gorilla even though he wasn’t black. It was those long gangly arms, and his appearance may have been the result of a genetic deformity. Did you know Abe’s body was stolen? When Springfield, Illinois got it back, they buried him in concrete.

  15. Shy Guy says:

    Catarin says:
    May 1, 2011 at 5:13 am

    Hi 82. The better to fly with,,,

  16. Dr. Strangelove says:

    I have commented on this issue several times before. I have presented you with clear constitutional evidence that Omama is a “natural born citizen”. All I have to say now is that all of you, except Catarin, are one big f-ing joke.

    Say whatever you want to about me, I’ve heard if before, you fools.

  17. Shy Guy says:

    Dr. Strangelove says:
    May 1, 2011 at 6:35 am

    Say whatever you want to about me, I’ve heard if before

    To everything, there is a reason.

  18. ellen says:

    See KENYA obama birth certificate with an embossed raised seal of authenticication.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MCfaYPT7VI&feature=share

    http://www.thepowerhour.com/news4/obama_kenyan_birth_certificate.htm

  19. Shy Guy says:

    ellen says:
    May 1, 2011 at 7:40 am

    Congrats on falling for an Internet hoax a year or 2 after it came out.

  20. Ted Belman says:

    AE. You are displaying your own ignorance when you say

    Give it up, Ted. This issue is dead horse. The Federalist Papers not the Constitution. The SCOTUS has already refused to hear these charges – TWICE. Case closed.

    It is a basic law of interpretation that when a Court has to interpret a clause in a document that is ambiguous, that the Court looks outside the document to determine the intention of those that voted for it. In this case, the Federalist Papers and speeches etc.

    Secondly the Courts have never heard argument on the merits of the eligibility issue. Instead they have ruled that the Plaintiff did not have “standing” to bring the case.

    As it turns out that decision is being appealed and the Court of Appeal (9th Circuit) will hear oral arguments on May 2nd

    There is some concern that all 3 judges hearing the appeal, were appointed by Democrats.

    If the Cof Appeal rules that they do have standing, then the original case will have to be heard on the merits. This case would allow discovery of all relevant documents and cross examination of Obama.

  21. Jew says:

    #7 I agree 100% with your analysis: it’s amazing that there can exist people who believe that the PDF document issued by BHO himself proves anything. The people who believe that have simply no brain. The only way for BHO to prove where he was born and to which parents is to provide the ORIGINAL birth certificate or to show a registration in the original documents of the hospital and/or the state administration of Hawai. Anything else, like this PDF for instance, is nothing but a bad joke. Imagine someone wants to get a new passport in a US consulate around the world saying he’s lost his old one. They will force him to issue to issue an original birth certificate and if he cannot that they will demand a copy of an original registration in the books of the administration.

  22. Shy Guy says:

    Jew says:
    May 1, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Imagine someone wants to get a new passport in a US consulate around the world saying he’s lost his old one. They will force him to issue to issue an original birth certificate and if he cannot that they will demand a copy of an original registration in the books of the administration.

    This is simply incorrect. When is the last time you applied for a US passport?

    Read here.
    A “certified” BC can be a new digital copy embossed with the seal of the issuer and certified that it is a legal copy of the original.

  23. Catarin says:

    Natural Born Citizen means you were not hatched from an egg.

    Isn’t Barak a Jewish name? Hussein is an Arab name. Interestingly, the Navajo Indians have a similar name, Hossein. They came to Arizona from Mongolia in the 13th century. Obama is obviously African. Do you agree?

  24. Shy Guy says:

    Catarin says:
    May 1, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    Natural Born Citizen means you were not hatched from an egg.

    So you’re admitting you’ve flown the coop?

  25. Yonatan says:

    Dr. Strangelove wrote:

    I have presented you with clear constitutional evidence that Omama is a “natural born citizen”. All I have to say now is that all of you, except Catarin, are one big f-ing joke.

    Apparently your arguments were not as persuasive as you think they are. I have read someone’s evidence on this site before, I don’t know whether they were yours or not. I do know that after reading them and reading the other side’s arguments, your side did not prevail in my mind.

  26. Yonatan says:

    Catarin wrote:

    Natural Born Citizen means you were not hatched from an egg.

    Isn’t Barak a Jewish name? Hussein is an Arab name. Interestingly, the Navajo Indians have a similar name, Hossein. They came to Arizona from Mongolia in the 13th century. Obama is obviously African. Do you agree?

    Here’s what I think…

  27. Shy Guy says:

    Yonatan says:
    May 1, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Here’s what I think…

    Good grief! Do you know what that means?!?!?!?!

    Catarin is Miss South Carolina!!!

  28. Jew says:

    #22 Shalom Shy,

    Your link gives instructions of how to get a US passport in the US while I spoke of the case that you want to apply for a US passport in one of the US consulates around the world. However, I admit that I exeggerated a little, it is probably not necessary to present a copy of the original document, BUT the newly issued certificate has to reproduce the data filled in the administrations register which is a book stored somewhere in the administration. So, concerning Obama, it should be possible to require the State of Hawai to provide insight of these books to an atorney. That’s what I ment.

  29. Shy Guy says:

    Jew, the certified form recently publicized by the White House is the “long form”, with all the information required by the State Dept. to verify US citizenship. If you compare that form to the original Hawaiian BC, you’ll see that nothing of relevance is missing.

  30. Yonatan says:

    Whoa – Miss S.C. is the real deal!

  31. AmericanEagle says:

    Ted Belman writes:
    It is a basic law of interpretation that when a Court has to interpret a clause in a document that is ambiguous, that the Court looks outside the document to determine the intention of those that voted for it. In this case, the Federalist Papers and speeches etc.

    Ted, I hate to inform you of this, but the SCOTUS has rejected to hear these charges as bogus – TWICE.

    Case closed.

    This is still a nation of laws and not of Ted and videos.

    The 14th. Amendment to the US Constitution says:

    Quote:
    Section 1. 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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
    Unquote.

    Age and Citizenship requirements – US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

    No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

    Lower court cases addressing natural born citizenship
    Lynch v. Clarke, 3 N.Y. Leg. Obs. 236, 1 Sand. Ch. 583 (1844):[10] This opinion from a New York court extensively reviewed the issue of natural born citizenship, and was later cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark.

    And the constitution itself contains a direct recognition of the subsisting common law principle, in the section which defines the qualification of the President. “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President,” &c . The only standard which then existed, of a natural born citizen, was the rule of the common law, and no different standard has been adopted since. Suppose a person should be elected President who was native born, but of alien parents, could there be any reasonable doubt that he was eligible under the constitution? I think not. The position would be decisive in his favor that by the rule of the common law, in force when the constitution was adopted, he is a citizen.

    Moreover, the absence of any avowal or expression in the constitution, of a design to affect the existing law of the country on this subject, is conclusive against the existence of such design. It is inconceivable that the representatives of the thirteen sovereign states, assembled in convention for the purpose of framing a confederation and union for national purposes, should have intended to subvert the long established rule of law governing their constituents on a question of such great moment to them all, without solemnly providing for the change in the constitution; still more that they should have come to that conclusion without even once declaring their object. And what is true of the delegates in the convention, is equally applicable to the designs of the states, and of the people of the states, in ratifying and adopting the results of their labors.

    In 2009, the Indiana Court of Appeals applied Wong Kim Ark and upheld the lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to President Obama’s eligibility.

  32. Dr. Strangelove says:

    One more time. Click on link. Read section for “Natural-born citizen”. Click on green link for “section 1401″ Read paragraph (g). Especially you, Yonaton.
    Read it several times, so that you understand it
    http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_citi.html

    Anyone! Tell me what’s wrong with it. I don’t think you can.

  33. Shy Guy says:

    Dr. Strangelove says:
    May 2, 2011 at 2:19 am

    Anyone! Tell me what’s wrong with it. I don’t think you can.

    You are confusing a “natural born citizen” with a nationalized citizen. Example:

    Born in the US with at least one US citizen parent – natural born citizen.

    Born in the US with no US citizen parents – nationalized born citizen.

    Born outside US territory to at least one US citizen parent – nationalized born citizen.

    Of the 3 examples above, the children in examples 2 and 3 are not eligible for the Presidency.

  34. zev wanderer says:

    Yonaton:

    Yonatan says:
    May 1, 2011 at 3:44 pm
    Dr. Strangelove wrote:

    I have presented you with clear constitutional evidence that Omama is a “natural born citizen”. All I have to say now is that all of you, except Catarin, are one big f-ing joke.

    Apparently your arguments were not as persuasive as you think they are. I have read someone’s evidence on this site before, I don’t know whether they were yours or not. I do know that after reading them and reading the other side’s arguments, your side did not prevail in my mind.
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    Yona- You too are on our hit list for attacking our president. Obama has proven you yoyos wrong- Bin Laden is dead as a result of his patient, effective leadership. It is time for you to apologize. You are not fit to lick his boots.

  35. AmericanEagle says:

    Shy Guy writes:
    You are confusing a “natural born citizen” with a nationalized citizen.

    That’s “naturalized, Shy Guy, not nationalized.

    Born in the US with no US citizen parents – nationalized born citizen.
    Born outside US territory to at least one US citizen parent – nationalized born citizen.
    Of the 3 examples above, the children in examples 2 and 3 are not eligible for the Presidency.

    Wrong. These are also natural born citizens. John McCain was born in Panama and is a natural born American.

    Zev Wanderer writes:
    Yona- You too are on our hit list for attacking our president. Obama has proven you yoyos wrong- Bin Laden is dead as a result of his patient, effective leadership. It is time for you to apologize. You are not fit to lick his boots.

    Zev – please tell us what Obama’s boots taste like.

    Yonatan is correct and Ted Belman is blowing smoke. Much as I’d like to IMPEACH Obama for impersonating a President, he is a natural born American. Even the SCOTUS has refused to hear these bogus charges, so you naysayers can continuing pissing down your trousers instead of working to get rid of this worst president in US history.

    Obama continued the search for Osama Bin Laden that Bush started – and no one denied this. Even a blind squirrel will find an occasional acorn.

    Obama deserves kudos along with the US Special Forces for getting Bin Laden, but he has made a mess of everything else, domestically and internationally, including Israel’s special relationship with the US.

  36. AmericanEagle says:

    Dr. Strangelove wrote:
    I have presented you with clear constitutional evidence that Omama is a “natural born citizen”. All I have to say now is that all of you, except Catarin, are one big f-ing joke.

    Calm down everyone. No one would like to see Obama IMPEACHED more than me for impersonating a President, but the SCOTUS has refused to hear the bogus charge that Obama is not a “natural born American” – TWICE. Case closed. What about this do the morons braying about this issue not understand?

    Zev Wanderer writes:
    Yona- You too are on our hit list for attacking our president. Obama has proven you yoyos wrong- Bin Laden is dead as a result of his patient, effective leadership. It is time for you to apologize. You are not fit to lick his boots.

    Zev – please tell us what Obama’s boots taste like:-)) Have you been on sabbatical recently that you don’t know that he has ROYALLY f#$%^& up the US, domestically and internationally? Yes, I give him and the Sepecial Forces kudos for getting Osama Bin Laden. Give the devil his due, and then let’s boot him out of there.

  37. Yonatan says:

    Oh, I am on your “hitlist” now, huh? I’ve read your screed all over the forum now, the US is in serious trouble if people like you are driving it. Where do you think this goes next? You seriously need to take a chill pill and a few weeks off the internet. Have some quality time with your family and rediscover what is important in life.

  38. Shy Guy says:

    Yonatan says:
    May 2, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Have some quality time with your family and rediscover what is important in life.

    Wanderer needs to see a doctor.

  39. Yonatan says:

    And as far as apologizing goes…The American Army got Bin Laden, not Obummer. O has done nothing but endanger the very existence of my country, Israel. If thats the leadership you are looking for, you got it.

    He is an enemy of the Jewish people. You should think about what this might mean for you.

  40. AmericanEagle says:

    Yonatan writes:
    And as far as apologizing goes…The American Army got Bin Laden, not Obummer. O has done nothing but endanger the very existence of my country, Israel. If thats the leadership you are looking for, you got it.
    He is an enemy of the Jewish people. You should think about what this might mean for you.

    Yonatan, please give the devil his due for at least a couple of minutes. This started under Bush, – even the courier who finally led the US Special Forces to Osama was first identified 4 years ago – and the US Special Forces dropped the hammer – but Obummer did give the orders to kill Osama Bin Laden, unlike Bill Clinton, who refused to take him from the Sudan – thrice – and then refused to give the CIA orders to shoot when they had him in their sights over 10 times in Afghanistan – all before Osama had done his worst damage on 9/11.

    OK, two minutes over. Now let’s resume trying to kick him out.

    The bad news for Obummer bootlickers like Zev is that this shows that Obummer’s ass-kissing of Muslim dictators, and his trademark dithering in almost every other foreign policy issue is deliberate. When he wants to, he can be decisive, as in this case.

  41. dan friedman says:

    Eagle:

    The bad news for Obummer bootlickers like Zev is that this shows that Obummer’s ass-kissing of Muslim dictators, and his trademark dithering in almost every other foreign policy issue is deliberate. When he wants to, he can be decisive, as in this case.

    If you were close to me, I would cut your tomahawk off, and squeeze your lemons. The bitchy Obama haters have all gone into hiding. All those libelers and hate mongers have been proven wrong. Obama has been vindicated and now perhaps rather than punching away at the computer, you ought to go back doing what you love best.- RIDING HERD.

    It was a pleasure knowing you.

  42. Dr. Strangelove says:

    Shy Guy, after claiming that he read what was on the link that I provided, on another post, still can’t accept the truth. I wonder if he believes that humans walked with dinosaurs, also. I appreciate that there at least some people here, even though we may have some differing views on “Obummer”, have some common sense. I’ll post it one more time so that every one can read it.

    Click on the link and read the entire section on “Natural-born citizen”. Also, read the section on “U.S. Nationals” to see the difference. Then click on the green link for “section 1401″ and read paragraph (g) carefully. I hope a few more of you may have some common sense.

    Sorry, but everything in red is the link for the above.
    Regarding those of you that want Obama gone at any cost, I admit having my own issues with him. If the Dems came up with an alternative progressive that I believed in I would ceertainly support him. However, until that happens, I will be supporting Obama and fight against any RapePublicCon candidate.

    As far as Bin Laden is concerned, Obama did what he said he was going to do, including fighting terrorism, unlike your hero Bush 43. W., the great terrorism fighter, let 9/11 happen. Maybe not intentionally, but ignored all of the evidence presentd to him that he could have done something about. Great hero! Then, when he could have gotten Bin Laden in Tora Bora, he pulled out and got us into the Iraq fiasco based on a pack of lies. Lies that were proven to be such before the invasion. And you love to complain about Obama hiding his background. Although it all came out, Bush tried to hide the truth about his arrests, education record, national guard service and pitiful business background. I don’t remember hearing any complaints from the right about any ot those issues.

  43. dan friedman says:

    Dr Strangelove:

    As far as Bin Laden is concerned, Obama did what he said he was going to do, including fighting terrorism, unlike your hero Bush 43. W., the great terrorism fighter, let 9/11 happen. Maybe not intentionally, but ignored all of the evidence presentd to him that he could have done something about. Great hero! Then, when he could have gotten Bin Laden in Tora Bora, he pulled out and got us into the Iraq fiasco based on a pack of lies. Lies that were proven to be such before the invasion. And you love to complain about Obama hiding his background. Although it all came out, Bush tried to hide the truth about his arrests, education record, national guard service and pitiful business background. I don’t remember hearing any complaints from the right about any ot those issues.

    NO TRUER WORDS WERE EVER SPOKEN.

  44. dan friedman says:

    Shy Guy. Why not take up bridge, chess or poker. You realize of course, your blogging days are over.

    How about volleyball.

  45. Shy Guy says:

    Dr. Strangelove says:
    May 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    I hope a few more of you may have some common sense.

    You’re the one lacking any brains here.

    Obviously you haven’t read my response. Actually, you most probably just can’t comprehend it.

  46. AmericanEagle says:

    Dr. Strangelove writes:
    As far as Bin Laden is concerned, Obama did what he said he was going to do, including fighting terrorism, unlike your hero Bush 43. W., the great terrorism fighter, let 9/11 happen. Maybe not intentionally, but ignored all of the evidence presentd to him that he could have done something about.

    Dan Friedman writes:
    NO TRUER WORDS WERE EVER SPOKEN.

    Actually, NO FALSER WORDS WERE EVER SPOKEN.

    What Strange-guy and Dan have written is complete dog-poo. Anyone who says Bush “let 9/11 happen” is a total moron who is deliberately making a pretzel from the facts. There was no actionable evidence that was ever presented to Bush. There are hundreds of “leads” that are received every day 99.999% of which are false.

    Then, when he could have gotten Bin Laden in Tora Bora, he pulled out and got us into the Iraq fiasco based on a pack of lies. Lies that were proven to be such before the invasion.

    More dog-poo, now rising to the level of a blood libel. The commanders on the ground made a sensible decision to leave the attack on Tora Bora to the locals who knew the territory. It was pure luck that Osama escaped.

    It was Bill Clinton who let Osama get as far as he did, first by refusing to take Osama from Sudan, after three offers, because of bogus legal technicalities, and then over a dozen times in Afghanistan when he dithered to give the orders to shoot when the CIA had Osama in their sights. It was Clinton who refused to classify Al Qaeda as terrorists by calling them common criminals. It was Clinton who raised the wall between the CIA and FBI and banned them from sharing intel. It was Clinton who banned the CIA from gathering intel from “unsavory” characters. It was Clinton who refused to retaliate for all the serial attacks during the 90′s which emboldened Osama. He declared war on America in 1996 and again in 1998, and called America a “weak horse” and Al Qaeda the “strong horse”. This is what led directly to the attack on 9/11.

    This Strange also repeats the blood libel about the reason for the regime change in Iraq being based on a pack of lies when all the evidence pointed to Iraq’s WMDs, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR, and were the basis of 17 unanimous UNSC resolutions from 1991 to 2003, which started before Bush was even Governor of Texas.

    Finally the Wikileaks vindicated Bush as outlined in this column by Larry Elder:

    http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2010/12/09/the_wikileaks_vindication_of_george_w_bush/page/full/

    And you love to complain about Obama hiding his background. Although it all came out, Bush tried to hide the truth about his arrests, education record, national guard service and pitiful business background.

    More brazen lies. The only thing not known about Bush was his one DUI arrest years ago. No US president was vetted by the media more thoroughly than Bush. Dan Rather even ruined his entire career by falsifying the evidence on Bush’s national service on 60 Minutes.

    I don’t remember hearing any complaints from the right about any ot those issues.

    As shown above there was nothing to complain about. On the other hand Barack Obama had hidden not only his birth certificate, he has also hidden his college transcripts and thesis and his medical records. He has also tried to hide all his inconvenient relationships with Islamic terrorist Rashid Khalidi, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, anti-Semite and anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright, the voter-fraud organization ACORN, his relationship with convicted gangster Tony Rezko.

    In addition, if he is as intelligent as his supporters say he is, he has deliberately taken steps to destroy the US economy and his foreign policy is the laughing stock of the world, including losing the respect of all the Muslim dictators he works so hard to impress.

  47. Yonatan says:

    OK Dr. Strangelove, I read it. What make this site “official” to be making constitutional judgements? Its not a US Gov site, its run by a few individuals and the conclusions reached are not constitutional law, they are the opinions of thw writers of the site. I do not see any case law sited for the conclusions reached.

  48. AmericanEagle says:

    Yonatan writes:
    OK Dr. Strangelove, I read it. What make this site “official” to be making constitutional judgements? Its not a US Gov site, its run by a few individuals and the conclusions reached are not constitutional law, they are the opinions of thw writers of the site. I do not see any case law sited for the conclusions reached.

    This Dr. Stangelove guy is even stranger than Zev Wanderer, both of whom seem to have come out of the woodwork to spew pro-Obama, George Soros-type Democrat talking points we have not seen in a long time.

  49. dweller says:

    Re: post 5

    “If we (anti-Obama voters) put a tenth as much effort into getting him impeached for the illegal lotteries he ran to fund his campaign, he would already have gone back to wherever he came from.”

    If impeachment is truly what you have in mind, Bill, i.e., trial for wrongdoing WHILE SERVING IN THE OVAL OFFICE, then you must understand that — notwithstanding its form Impeachment is not a judicial process, but a political one.

    What that means is that howsoever good your ‘case’ against our boy may be, if you haven’t got the senatorial VOTES [because the Senate constitutes the 'jury' in a presidential impeachment], then you’re gonna lose; its just that simple.

    On the other hand, if you want him brought up on charges of campaign illegalities — which occurred BEFORE he was inaugurated — that’s not an impeachable offense, but a federal offense for the federal courts to consider.

    If they will.

  50. dweller says:

    Re post 6:

    “The minute anyone in the audience raises a question which is not in tune with the standard anti-Israel/anti-U.S. views of the panelists, the partisan crowd in the hall yells in unison “you are a racist!” and shuts off the debate.”

    Amazing how well it works, isn’t it?

    They just pull that tool out of their belt, and it never fails to do the job.

    Or used to.

    Not sure it’s still working these days, though.

    Tea Party isn’t much taken with that rot.

    Sixty years ago, if you wanted to shut off debate (or reorient it your own way), all you had to do was holler “Communist!”

    It worked too.

    For a couple decades anyway.