Daniel Hannan: If Obama were born in Kenya, he would be a British citizen

[Knightskye]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...hat-if-barack-obama-was-in-fact-born-british/

Good point, I guess.

 

[jp5065]

Not an expert, but... his father was a British citizen, so he should be a British citizen too, no matter where he was born. Right?

 

[torchbearer]

Not an expert, but... his father was a British citizen, so he should be a British citizen too, no matter where he was born. Right?

that is correct.

 

[Sandra]

Using the same reasoning on this thread, Bobby Jindal is currently a citizen of India because BOTH parents were citizens of India at his birth and is ineligible to be even governor. Is that what you guys are saying?

 

[Njon]

Using the same reasoning on this thread, Bobby Jindal is currently a citizen of India because BOTH parents were citizens of India at his birth and is ineligible to be even governor. Is that what you guys are saying?

Whether or not he was born an Indian citizen would depend on Indian citizenship law.

If both parents weren't American citizens when he was born, he is not a 'natural born' U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be president. If he was born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents, then he is an American citizen, but not a natural born citizen.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/08/logical-analysis-of-natural-born.html

 

[mrsat_98]

Using the same reasoning on this thread, Bobby Jindal is currently a citizen of India because BOTH parents were citizens of India at his birth and is ineligible to be even governor. Is that what you guys are saying?

The natural born citizen clause of the US Constitution on applies to the president and vice president.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States

Constitutional provisions
Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as President of the United States:

“ No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Vice president would have to be NBC in the event the president was replaced by the VP

 

[Sandra]

Whether or not he was born an Indian citizen would depend on Indian citizenship law.

If both parents weren't American citizens when he was born, he is not a 'natural born' U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be president. If he was born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents, then he is an American citizen, but not a natural born citizen.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/08/logical-analysis-of-natural-born.html

The earlier statements claimed Obama is not a citizen in the present tense. If so , Jindal isn't one either which would make him ineligible to be governor.

 

[Njon]

The earlier statements claimed Obama is not a citizen in the present tense. If so , Jindal isn't one either which would make him ineligible to be governor.

No, they didn't.

Obama may well be both a British and a United States citizen, just as Jindal may be both an Indian and a United States citizen.