Friday, June 3, 2011

McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors | The Washington Independent

McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors | The Washington Independent

After the DNC requested a dismissal of Berg’s lawsuit, he responded in a Sept. 29, 2008 filing that cited numerous Internet rumors and incorrect citations of American and international law. Berg cited “Wikipedia Italian version” and “Rainbow Edition News Letter” as evidence that Obama had not been clear about which hospital he was born in; he alleged that Obama must have been adopted by Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian man who married Obama’s mother when the future president was five years old, because he attended elementary school in that country. Because a contemporary school record referred to Obama as “Barry Soetoro” and listed his nationality as “Indonesian,” Berg argued that there was “absolutely no way Obama could have ever regained ‘natural born’ status.”

“That’s just completely wrong,” said Mitzi Torri, an Arizona-based immigration lawyer. Torri pointed to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which sets a high bar for renunciation of American citizenship. According to the INA, an American can only forfeit his citizenship if he commits treason, if he makes a “formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state,” or if he becomes a citizen of another country “upon his own application or upon an application filed by a duly authorized agent.”

“Berg wants to say,” said Torri, “that this document from a school in Indonesia, which has no signature, which has no standing whatsoever, is more important than Obama’s birth certificate or our immigration law.”

McCain/Torri connection from 2009. Imagine that?

Torri sounds like another Obama Supreme Court nominee.

7 comments:

  1. Moreover, both the Indonesian government (call the Embassy in Washington to check) AND the US State Department in a legal filing have said that Obama was never a citizen of Indonesia.

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  2. Illegal Obama's supposed Dad was not a US Citizen either.
    Call Embassy in Washington and US State Department to check that out too.
    Just the facts mam, just the facts.

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  3. Obama's father was not a US citizen, as Obama has written in his book.

    So what?

    Natural Born Citizen status comes from the PLACE of birth, the USA, not from his parents.

    “Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are "natural born citizens" and eligible to be President. Much less certain, however, is whether children born abroad of United States citizens are "natural born citizens" eligible to serve as President ..."---- Edwin Meese, et al, THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION (2005) [Edwin Meese was Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, and the Heritage Foundation is a well-known Conservative organization.]

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  4. What country are you from? Definitely not US Constitution?

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  5. I was born in Ohio, in the USA. Obama was born in Hawaii, also in the USA, as his official birth certificate (short-form and long form) and the confirmations of THREE Republican officials and the notices in the Hawaii newspapers all show.

    Natural Born Citizen status comes from the PLACE of birth, the USA, not from his parents.

    “Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are "natural born citizens" and eligible to be President. Much less certain, however, is whether children born abroad of United States citizens are "natural born citizens" eligible to serve as President ..."---- Edwin Meese, et al, THE HERITAGE GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION (2005) [Edwin Meese was Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, and the Heritage Foundation is a well-known Conservative organization.]

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  6. FYI
    http://www.westernjournalism.com/bombshell-did-obama-change-his-name/

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  7. The answer to the question did he change his name? Is no.

    The guy who claimed to have seen documents never showed them.

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