althouse.blogspot.com - 12/8/2008
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"In a brief order, the Court, as expected, turned aside a New Jersey voter’s plea for the Court to determine if President-elect Barack Obama was qualified to run for the White House — that is whether he was a “natural born citizen.” The stay application came in the case of Donofrio v. Wells, ...
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The Moderate Voice —
... Barack Obama isn’t a “natural born” US citizen, as the Constitution requires our president to be. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after the state was admitted into the Union.
Marc Ambinder wrote about this several days ago. The entire “case” against Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen” was without merit. It’s good that a conservative Supreme Court has confirmed that.
Also see here.
Bottom line: Sour grapes do not a constitutional argument make.
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