Ender
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I can't think of a single person who cares what you think.
Ditto what Green said:
Think again.
I can't think of a single person who cares what you think.
Think again.
I seem to recall a recent thread addressing the issue of going after other members in a personal way....
just ignore them... they are trying to get the tread pulled
You can't really judge Sarah Palin by the MSM coverage from the election. "They" were out to get her, because "their" candidate was threatened by her, if not by McCain. She is one heck of a politician. One of the few good ones.
Sarah Palin was more of a liability for McCain than an assist. She was picked as an attempt to draw the Hillary vote, and failed miserably. The only advantage that she had over other GOP VP candidates is that she can (probably) spell potato.
People gripe about Obama's supposed inexperience....she's got waaaaay less, as the governor of a sparsely populated state.
I don't think she's a terrible person, but she's certainly not impressive. The GOP needs to see the REAL jewel in their midst.....Ron Paul...and start giving him some attention. HE would draw votes from all walks. Sarah won't.
P.S. to a previous poster. No, Fruit Loop's mama probably doesn't care what I think....she's been in heaven for the last 19 years.
At a Palin rally in Colorado Springs I shook her hand. Amazingly, when I got home and looked at my hand a scar from childhood had disappeared.
Seriously Palin has a chance. While I admire Ron Paul he is seen as radical and could not win. Perception is everything in politics. I don't consider Paul to be radical. But too many do.
Time to belly up to the bar and toast the Bear killer.
At a Palin rally in Colorado Springs I shook her hand. Amazingly, when I got home and looked at my hand a scar from childhood had disappeared.
Seriously Palin has a chance. While I admire Ron Paul he is seen as radical and could not win. Perception is everything in politics. I don't consider Paul to be radical. But too many do.
Time to belly up to the bar and toast the Bear killer.
I didn't as much consider Ron Paul as the radical, but some of his supporters were huge turnoffs. Couple that with Dr. Paul's inability to express himself, seriously, listening to him was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I really can't speak to what the media did to him since I don't watch TV much and don't have the MSM channels.
I have never and will never vote for someone based on appearance or presentability, but the candidate must get their point across in a manner than lends itself to leadership. I'll give that one to Obama, even though everything he said was nothing but self-centered lies and worthless cliches. Sound bites that impressed the lesser of society.
If Mrs. Palin runs for national office again, she really must stop with the winking and "you betchas".
Parentage not withstanding, born on American soil makes you an American Citizen and naturally born in the USA. You simply choose at maturity if you want to remain an American. But I think Jindal's birth may be more complicated he talked about this once IIRC. But I don't remember the details.
Being born here makes you a citizen only, not a natural born citizen
The requirements for citizenship, and its very definition in American statute law, have changed since the Constitution was ratified in 1788. Congress first recognized the citizenship of children born to U.S. parents overseas on March 26, 1790, stating that "the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States."[10] To date, the Naturalization Act of 1790 has been the only U.S. law explicitly conferring "natural born" citizenship. In 1795, Congress removed the words "natural born" from the law; the Naturalization Act of 1795 says only that foreign-born children of American parents "shall be considered as citizens of the United States."[11]
All persons born in the United States, except those not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government (such as children of ambassadors or other foreign diplomats) are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.[12] Additionally, under sections 301–309 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (restated in sections 1401–1409 of Title 8 of the United States Code), current U.S. law defines numerous other categories of individuals born abroad, as well as people born in most U.S. territories and possessions, as being "nationals and citizens of the United States at birth."[13] The phrase "natural born citizen," however, does not appear in the current statutes dealing with citizenship at birth.
The law governing the citizenship of children born outside the U.S. to one or more U.S.-citizen parents has varied considerably over time.[14] Current U.S. statutes define various categories of individuals born overseas as "citizens at birth," including (for example) all persons "born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person."[15]
The definition of the "United States", for nationality purposes, was expanded in 1952 to add Guam, and in 1986 it was expanded again to include the Northern Mariana Islands. Persons born in these territories (in addition to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) currently acquire U.S. citizenship at birth on the same terms as persons born in other parts of the United States. The category of "outlying possessions of the United States" (whose inhabitants generally have U.S. "nationality" but not U.S. "citizenship") is now restricted to American Samoa and Swains Island.[16]
Regarding people born at U.S. military bases in foreign countries, current U.S. State Department policy (as codified in the department's Foreign Affairs Manual) reads:
Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth."[17]
The foregoing section of the FAM only addresses citizenship by jus soli: In short, what is the geographic scope of the "United States"? This does not affect citizenship via jus sanguinis, i.e. those who are born abroad to U.S. citizens and who otherwise meet the qualifications for statutory citizenship.[18] The State Department also asserts that "the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes."[19] This position seems to be at odds with the fact that Congress in 1790 felt it could confer natural born citizenship on those born abroad to American parents. Ultimately, it will take a Supreme Court decision to settle the matter once an American citizen born abroad runs for and wins the presidency.
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Ender the sorry wrong not aimed at you. We cross posted.
Ain't necessarily so:
Think again.
Ender the sorry wrong not aimed at you. We cross posted.
ETA: Sorry but what don't you understand about being naturally born? How many people were born of immigrant parents in 1800 Just one year after the signing of the constitution...
U.S. Constitution
Article II. The Presidency
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.
Commited TREASON by not blocking Obama...They are the guardians of thE U.S. Constitution...They punted
Yes they all did, including Roberts who sworn him in.... ALL TRAITORS
So what happens to this country....Under Obama...well they have Culpability on they hands.
FOOTNOTE... If the Supreme Court did take up this issue & ruled in Obama's favor..well I may feel that they were wrong but it would make it legal.
The constitution states you must be a natural born citizen or be alive and resident of the United States at the time of signing. The Alive and Resident IS the grandfather clause. Not the exact words but I made it simple.