With this odd fellow we elected President has come discussion about the Constitutional requirements for being President, and in particular that pesky little phrase “natural born citizen”. There are some very long (and some long-winded) discussions about that this means. I personally think the thing is being over analyzed.
I hit the Concise Oxford English Dictionary [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Educational Reports'
Natural born Citizen
December 15, 2008
The Assassination of Chester A. Arthur
December 10, 2008
Obama Citizenship Denial folks say Barack Obama can’t be president because his father was a British citizen, not an American citizen. That particular presidential requirement was a new one on me! I speculated that surely there could be among all of the Presidents of the United States ONE who didn’t have both parents as US [...]
The “R” Word
December 7, 2008
Honolulu Advertiser columnist Jerry Burris wrote in an article entitled: “Obama’s American: Believe it”:
One conspiracy theorist is convinced Obama was born in his father’s homeland of Kenya (somehow mother and father slipped away from their studies in Hawai’i to get back to Africa in time for the birth of their son, then zipped back to [...]
OCD, a Cottage Industry
December 7, 2008
Someone handed me a letter the other day denying that Obama was qualified to be president. I thought it was a printed-out email and I was more than a little surprised to learn that it came in the US Mail. The back sheet was a petition to be signed and sent somewhere but also a [...]
Obama Citizenship Denial – Final Summary
December 6, 2008
One need but look at my blog to see how much time I have personally wasted on Obama Citizenship Denial. This subject has now moved to the “conspiracy theory” world (where long-resolved objections are repeated, and evidence dismissed). Most of what’s written on this subject is carp, but I want to summarize what I find [...]