Mitt Romney Picks Paul Ryan As VP

Raees wrote: Mitt Romney, after all, hasn’t released his grades from Stanford, BYU, or Harvard—nor furnished a copy of his birth certificate.

Why aren't you calling for him to release his?

The likelihood of his claiming to be a foreign citizen as an adult is virtually nil. If the same were true of Obama, I wouldn't be asking to see his either.

PrintSmith wrote: The likelihood of his claiming to be a foreign citizen as an adult is virtually nil. If the same were true of Obama, I wouldn't be asking to see his either.

And why is that? Hmmm...

Might it have something to do with the claim that his father was an alien from a foreign country and his mother's subsequent marriage to another man who was also a citizen of a foreign country?

Which still leaves Obama as a natural born American citizen. You can't change what the law is PrintSmith just because you think it's wrong.

Isn't that why the majority of laws are changed archer? People feel that the law is wrong and set out to correct it? Where would we be if one couldn't change laws regarding slavery, separate but equal, minimum wage, discrimination based on gender, suffrage for women and so much more because they felt the laws were wrong?

PrintSmith wrote: Isn't that why the majority of laws are changed archer? People feel that the law is wrong and set out to correct it? Where would we be if one couldn't change laws regarding slavery, separate but equal, minimum wage, discrimination based on gender, suffrage for women and so much more because they felt the laws were wrong?

Yeah...if the majority of Americans feel the law is wrong, but I have seen no indication that very many Americans, much less a majority, want to strip citizenship from people who were born in the USA to an American parent. OK, maybe a majority of those who hate Obama would like to strip his citizenship, but that is about as far as it goes, I doubt they would want it to apply to everyone who only had one parent who was an American citizen and was born in the USA. What scares me about you PrintSmith, is that you don't even realize how far out on the fringe you are.

Is the mischaracterization of the position of others something that comes naturally to you or is it a talent you have had to pay particular attention to in order to develop during the course of your life archer?

No one is talking about taking away anyone's citizenship. The child of an alien and a citizen would still be a citizen, simply not a natural born one. That distinction would be retained for the child of two citizens, which is something that would be more in line with the concepts in place at the time that being a natural born citizen was made a central part of the requirements for qualifying for the office of president.

PrintSmith wrote: Is the mischaracterization of the position of others something that comes naturally to you or is it a talent you have had to pay particular attention to in order to develop during the course of your life archer?

No one is talking about taking away anyone's citizenship. The child of an alien and a citizen would still be a citizen, simply not a natural born one. That distinction would be retained for the child of two citizens, which is something that would be more in line with the concepts in place at the time that being a natural born citizen was made a central part of the requirements for qualifying for the office of president.

Either way, I don't believe the American people want to change the definition of "natural born" citizen just to keep Obama out of office. And that IS what this is all about......no one started in on this debate until Obama was elected president. You change the law, then what do you do about artificial insemination? You can't test semen for citizenship.

Having experienced the effects of one president whose parents were not both themselves citizens, it is very possible that the union may wish to avoid having another such person hold the office in the future given the purpose of having the qualification at all was to prevent one with sympathies for places and systems other than the one that was unique to this union from holding its highest office.

There is so much wrong with your post PrintSmith I won't dignify it with a response. Have a nice evening, I'm done with this discussion. When you start dividing citizens into categories of patriotism and love of country by who their parents are...there is nothing more that I want to hear from you.