| Posted: 19 October 2008 at 10:34am | IP Logged | 2
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"In this one Obama is either not born in US (born in Kenya) or even if he WAS born in US, he was naturalized INDONESIAN, so he is in fact, not an american citizen and therefore an illegal immigrant, all of that, where? FOX news, of course...."
His mother being naturalized Indonesian or Obama receiving a secondary Indonesian citizenship as a child doesn't take away his US citizenship. Barring a legal ruling where the government rescinds his citizenship (for cause, such as the crime of treason or the like) Obama would have had to renounce his own citizenship, and he would have to be an adult to do so.
And the legal presumption is that Obama is a citizen. The burden of proof lies entirely on the guy trying to prove that he isn't. Obama doesn't have to offer any proof, and for all we know, documentation might be misplaced and relatives may have differing recollections (Obama himself obviously has no first hand knowledge of where he was born and his mother is long dead).
Besides, it's a technicality. His mother was a US citizen when he was born, her family have been americans for many, many generations. This is as preposterous as the claim that McCain is ineligible because he was born in Panama (where his father was stationed at the time).
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