On Jul 30, 2:30*pm, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
So you are saying that if a pregnant American citizen, for whatever
reason (vacation, airline attendant), gives birth overseas, that her
child would never be able to be president? Just because the mother
happened to be on vacation?

Is this an "interpretation" of the law or an actual law? If an
"interpretation" (opinion), is this opinion treated as being
cast-in-concrete, and as carrying the same weight of a hard and fast
actual law?
I have heard some commentators claim that the US Supreme Court has
never ruled "ex cathedris" on the relevant definition of a "natural
born citizen". However, I seem to recall that most, if not all, of
the justices were present at Barack Obabm's inauguration and Chief
Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office, so they probably
accepted his constitutional eligibility to be President.


Ted Kennedy and FDR Junior were both born in Canada, which is why
they never ran for president.

Even a cursory search of several web sites shows that Ted Kennedy was
born in Massachusetts. Pardon me for saying so, but this seems to put
somewhat of a dent in your credibility. Possibly Ted, with two brothers
having been assassinated, saw the handwriting on the wall and didn't run
for that reason (or for Chappaquiddick), but certainly NOT for "being
born in Canada". Also, maybe FDR Jr. just didn't want to run for any
number of reasons.

The birthers will never be satisifed. They will probably tell you
that all of the evidnece has been fabricated, that the birth
certificate is a forgery, etc. They probably do not accept that the
People's Republic of Massachusetts is a part of the United States.

Again, a citation please for a child being born out of the country to an
American citizen.

Nobody seriously challenged George Romney's eligibility, even though
he was born in Mexico to parents who had chosen to abandon the United
States and emigrate to a foreign country. I would not be surprised to
hear that they had also renounced their American citizenship.

A law passed in the 1950s probably could not have conferred "natural
born citizen" status on John McCain because that would be "ex post
facto".