Posted by
Mike on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:02:39 PM
http://www.westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Now that his actual birth certificate has been released, the question
remains as to whether Barack Hussein Obama is qualified to serve as
President of the United States pursuant to the provisions of Article II,
Section 1 of our Constitution. The answer to this question hinges on
the definition of the all important term "natural born citizen".
Jon Meacham has either deliberately or through ignorance obfuscated the
question by asserting that Barack is "native born" and therefore
eligible to serve. However, the Constitution says nothing about being
native born. A good comparison between the two types of citizenship may
be found at the
Obama File.
As stated previously in this blog, my personal view is that Obama does
qualify as a natural born citizen by virtue of his illegitimacy through
the bigamous relationship of his father. This is based primarily on an
article written by George D. Collins and published in the prestigious
American Law review in 1884, in which Collins specifically includes as
natural born citizens those born illegitimately within one of the
several American states to a mother who is a US citizen regardless of the
father's citizenship status. With the materialization of the birth
certificate, the question of parentage has been solved, and there is no
question as to Stanley Ann Dunham's citizenship.
As an afterthought, the question of illegitimacy has been offered to Leo
Donofrio on his website, but has since been deleted without a response.
This may be taken to suggest that Leo has no answer to the evidence of
illegitimacy as making Obama a
bona fide natural born citizen.