I always thought with Obama it wasn't about where he was born but what religion was on his birth certificate. Hawaii had a field for religion on the birth certificates at the time. If it had Islam as his religion he would either have to renounce Islam to keep his cover as being a christian and have the whole middle east against him or he would have to renounce christianity and come out as a muslim and lose the election.
No, that had nothing to do with it. There may have been a practical impact on his candidacy, but that wouldn't have made a legal difference.
There was some question if he was born in Hawaii or Kenya, and if the latter, had his mother been a citizen long enough for him to be considered a citizen too (she was young).
This is the correct answer. At the time of Obama’s birth, you basically had to be 18 to “transmit” citizenship to your child if the child was born outside the country. You had to reside in the US for x number of years after the age of y to transmit citizenship (I’m too lazy to look up the values of x and y in the INA). His mom was 17 at the time of his birth, which means that if he was born outside the US he would not have been a natural born citizen.
For what it’s worth, I think Obama was born here. But I think he lied his ass off about being born in Kenya (like in his author’s blurb) in order to get scholarships and other benefits.
I always thought with Obama it wasn't about where he was born but what religion was on his birth certificate. Hawaii had a field for religion on the birth certificates at the time. If it had Islam as his religion he would either have to renounce Islam to keep his cover as being a christian and have the whole middle east against him or he would have to renounce christianity and come out as a muslim and lose the election.
No, that had nothing to do with it. There may have been a practical impact on his candidacy, but that wouldn't have made a legal difference.
There was some question if he was born in Hawaii or Kenya, and if the latter, had his mother been a citizen long enough for him to be considered a citizen too (she was young).
This is the correct answer. At the time of Obama’s birth, you basically had to be 18 to “transmit” citizenship to your child if the child was born outside the country. You had to reside in the US for x number of years after the age of y to transmit citizenship (I’m too lazy to look up the values of x and y in the INA). His mom was 17 at the time of his birth, which means that if he was born outside the US he would not have been a natural born citizen.
For what it’s worth, I think Obama was born here. But I think he lied his ass off about being born in Kenya (like in his author’s blurb) in order to get scholarships and other benefits.
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No, all the tards were bitching about him not being a "natural born citizen" because something something citizenship laws changed requiring something.