I received this e-mail from a reformed Republican that I have been helping educate. He states that he received it from his father, and that it posed a very good question. This is the first time that I did not have the right information available to me in a quick search, so I figured I'd ask you guys.
E-mail below the fold.
Here is the e-mail:
CAN OBAMA BE PRESIDENT?
It seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president, after all, 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 meansalthough 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 aformentioned, she was a young college student at the time and was not yrs 21 of age. 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 beennaturalized, 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. Citzen 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.
Interesting!! Now what? Who dropped the ball or are we all being duped?? Who do you know who you can forward this to who might be able to help answer this question?
I plan on adding everyone on the mailing list to a Reply e-mail with the proper information because I truly doubt that this is true. Thanks for your help.
UPDATE: As I suspected, this is FALSE. From Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/...
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, Hawaii became a State in 1959 and Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. According to Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to US Constitution, Senator Obama is a US citizen at birth: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."