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2008-06-24 Caribbean-Latin America

Hizballah in Venezuela: Will the U.S. move?

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Posted by lotp 2008-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "Island of MARGARITA.." > CUZIN Margaret Pangelinan???

Just a'fun-ing, Marge/Auget.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-24 00:07|| 2008-06-24 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 In answer to the question posed by the title: Nope. Even if anything's being contemplated, look for the Foggy Bottom/media axis to swing into action to stop it cold.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-06-24 03:21|| 2008-06-24 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's an interesting post at the bottom of the article. What do you make of this?

It seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president for the following reason:

Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between "December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986.

Presidential office requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. citizen parents, which of course is what exempts John McCain though he was born in the Panama Canal .

US Law very clearly stipulates: ".If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16."

Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. citizen and Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born, which means though she had been a U.S. citizen for 10 years, (or citizen perhaps because of Hawaii being a territory) the mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama's birth, but *after* age 16. It doesn't matter *after* . In essence, she was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. citizenship. At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18 in Hawaii. His mother would have needed to have been 16 5= 21 years old, at the time of Barack Obama's birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen. As aforementioned, she was a young college student at the time and was not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time; his mother would have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Citizen parent. Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office.

*** Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President. ***

Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, all the other info does not matter because his mother is the one who needed to have been a U.S. citizen for 10 years prior to his
birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16. Further, Obama may have had to have remained in the country for some time to protect any citizenship he would have had, rather than living in Indonesia.

Now you can see why Obama's aides stopped his speech about how we technically have more than 50 states, because it would have led to this discovery.

This is very clear cut and a blaring violation of U.S. election law. I think the Gov. of California would be very interested in knowing this if Obama were elected President without being a natural-born U.S. citizen, and it would set precedence. Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over the next several days.

Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
NoCrud, AmericaJun 20, 2008 @ 07:50

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-24 10:31|| 2008-06-24 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the comment has been removed. I think it was attributed to Thomas Sowell but doesn't appear to be one of his columns (at least not that i can find). Therefore I think it's garbage. If Sowell did indeed write that I would tend to trust it as he's pretty careful with being accurate (which is why I believe his name was used).

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-24 16:53|| 2008-06-24 16:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's an interesting post at the bottom of the article. What do you make of this?

Irrelevant, incompentent, and immaterial. This only applies to children born abroad. Obama was born in Hawaii. End of argument.

Unless you're going to sign up with the crowd who believes he won't release his birth certificate because he was really born in Kenya.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-06-24 20:59|| 2008-06-24 20:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Go to Candidate Obama's rumour-debunking site. His birth certificate is shown there -- I saw it either via Instapundit or Lucianne.com a few days ago. The man has serious problems as a candidate; there's no need to scrape up distractions.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-24 21:44|| 2008-06-24 21:44|| Front Page Top

#7 he's a damaged product - don't let him claim "swiftboating" (which means calling you on the truth, no matter how the left defines it). He's a flawed empty suit. Pin him on the votes and speeches. Don't let him change the subject!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-24 21:50|| 2008-06-24 21:50|| Front Page Top

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