Aren't there a number of past U.S. Presidents who had a birth parent of non-U.S. citizenship?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Yes, someone posted a list here yesterday

This case against Obama is bullshit.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. It's a three part case and one part has merit...sorta.

Not the Obama or McCain part, but the third candidate was not born here.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. I believe there were six who are thought to have had African American descent. So, it's

not quite the novelty it would seem.

[AllentownJake]

George Bush's Grandfather was Satan

Does that count as non-citizenship?

[liberalmuse]

4. Freepers are grasping at straws on this one.

And no, I'm not talking about their crotchal areas.

[Doctor_J]

18. So are some DUers, I guess

since these stoopid threads keep popping up

[GodlessBiker]

5. I would say neither of George Washington's parents were US citizens.

[Critters2]

12. The Consitution made provision for those who were born to British parents

and on British land before Independence.

[GodlessBiker]

22. Yes, but that wasn't the question.

[LynnTheDem]

26. LOL!

:rofl:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. By definition the first several presidents did! (Are the freeps going after George Washington now?)

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Why are you concerned at all about this bullshit?

Obama is categorically a natural born us citizen. End of story.

[iamahaingttta]

8. Chester Arthur might have been born in Canada.

It was a very minor scandal in the election of 1880, but since there were no records, it could not be proven either way.

[RC]

9. Not according this fine upstanding site:

Chester A. Arthur

Dignified, tall, and handsome, with clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Chester A. Arthur "looked like a President."

The son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland, Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1829. He was graduated from Union College in 1848, taught school, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in New York City. Early in the Civil War he served as Quartermaster General of the State of New York.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html

[TexasObserver]

10. The argument that BOTH parents have to be US citizens to confer citizenship is without basis.

It's an absurd position, argued by those who know nothing about law or history.

In other words, the people Clarence Thomas hangs out with.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Yeah, this "birth parent origin confers split loyalty" is BS.

There's no end to that kind of reasoning, you could extend it to grandparents and down the line.

If you are going to have the requirement at all, geographic birth boundary is the only possible basis.

[TexasObserver]

17. It's literally the silliest notion I'd heard about Obama's birth.

What about bastards? Would they automatically have no citizenship, and exactly whose citizens would they be?

[Liberal Progressive]

14. If they're right, then none of us are citizens.

Well, except for purebred native Americans.

After all, if my great, great, great grandparents weren't all Native-born, then none of their offspring were. Or their offspring's offspring. Or their offspring's offspring's offspring, etc. Guess I should just go back to England or Bohemia or Ireland or Germany or whatever other country I've never been to in the first place.

[FarCenter]

11. If you are born inside the georaphic borders of the US, you are a natural born US citizen

The parents could be just visiting from another country, but the baby is a US citizen.

[dpbrown]

15. Obama is the seventh President with a foreign-born parent

Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) is the only president born of two immigrants, both Irish. Presidents with one immigrant parent are Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers, and Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), whose mothers were born respectively in England and Canada.

[Honeycombe8]

20. You left out George Washington and John Adams. nt

[dpbrown]

23. Neither of whom had foreign-born parents

Augustana Washington was born in Wakefield, Virginia.
Mary Ball was born in Lancaster County, Virginia.

John Adams, Sr. was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
Susanna Boylston was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

[karynnj]

16. ALL the early ones

As there was no US citizenship then.

[Honeycombe8]

21. Even so, the parents of the early ones were not born in the New World. They were foreign-born.

The poster really should be asking which Presidents have had foreign-born parents AFTER the (constitutional?) requirement that the Prez be natural born.

[Honeycombe8]

19. George Washington was the first, I think.

:evilgrin:

[Clio the Leo]

24. Yeah, but they were all white, so no one cared. :-) NT

[elkston]

25. Exactly. That's why this rathole is pissing me off.

So many MAJOR challenges we need to work on and some people still just can't deal with a black guy. I am livid at these fucks!