Oh yes he is!

[jayes_musings]

There is a case being appealed to the Supreme Court which claims that Barack Obama is not eligible to be President as because his father was Kenyan, Obama is therefore not a natural born US citizen, even though he was born on US soil.

Fortunately, it seems likely (from the report that I heard) that the Supreme Court will decide not to hear this case, but it still makes me angry. (And it is only one of several similar cases, all of which have been tossed out of lower courts, thankfully.

Saying that is like saying that my children, both born in the US, are not natural born US citizens because I was born in Britain. Well, they are most undoubtedly and assuredly are and always have been. I find this case to be a great insult to them as much as Obama.

The nerve of some people. Oh, how I would like to meet this guy and set him right.

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[gehayi.livejournal.com]

According to this (http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS234607+29-Jan-2008+BW20080129), Obama's mother, Ann Durham, was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in November 1942, the child of two natives of Kansas. I'm not sure why she'd need to be naturalized, since she was born here.

[fannyfae]

Mea culpa. That is what I meant. *embarassed look*

But then growing up Native, I was always spoon fed the idea from my relatives on the Rez that anyone who is Non-Indigenous is a foreigner anyway. ;)

Show me your Onondaga passports, damn it! ;))

(Yes, I am teasing, btw)

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

anyone who is Non-Indigenous is a foreigner anyway. ;)

*laughs*

Sounds a lot like New England. There's an old joke around here about a young couple with a baby who moved to a small town in New Hampshire. The baby grew up in the town, married, had a dozen or so kids, worked, and generally became the best-loved person in town. So when he finally died--at well over a hundred--the people of the town wanted to commemorate how well-loved he was. And so they put up a tombstone that said:

DEARLY BELOVED
THOUGH A STRANGER AMONG US

[lorelei633.livejournal.com]

Hahaha that's like the joke we have down here in Virginia. A man is born in North Carolina and his family moves to Richmond when he is two days old. He grows up here, goes to school, then university, gets married, starts a thriving business, has children, becomes a grandfather, retires, lives to a ripe old age and then passes away.

The headline in the newspaper reads:

NORTH CAROLINA MAN DIES AT 99