The US Supreme Court will be holding a conference today to look at cases and determine which, if any, are worthy of being reviewed in full. One such case being looked at is one of the seeming multitude of cases being brought (appealed really, seeing as they were all tossed from lower courts) insisting that Barack Obama Jr. is not a natural born citizen and therefore not eligible to be President of the United States.
The lawsuit, filed before the general election, was an attempt to stay the election in New Jersey due to the ballots being defective owing to the existence of three ineligible candidates being on the ballot. Three, you say? Yes, Barack Obama (Democratic Party – birthplace unknown according to the lawsuit, regardless of what Hawaii has to say about it), John McCain (Republican Party – birthplace Panama, and an issue that has already been hashed out), and Roger Calero (Socialist Worker’s Party – birthplace Nicaragua, and he’s a green card holder so, yeah, not at all eligible).
This particular flavor of “Someone’s Not Eligible” lawsuit takes the form of stating he isn’t a natural born citizen, because both of his parents weren’t US citizens. It doesn’t quibble about his being born in Hawaii like many of the others. Nope. The fact that his father was not a US citizen means Obama is not a natural born citizen. McCain, according to the lawsuit, isn’t eligible due to having been born in Panama, even though both his parents are US citizens. Calero, well, he’s just flat out not eligible due to not being a US citizen of any sort. I am continually amazed by the various and sundry interpretations of laws I myself have read and researched. They all made perfect sense to me (i.e. McCain and Obama are both eligible for POTUS). Yet there are some people who are apparently educated at institutions of higher education who come to entirely different conclusions.
All I know is, I can’t wait to inform a bunch of my cousins — some born in various countries, some born with only one US citizen parent, and some variations of both — that they aren’t as much an American citizen as I am, since both of my parents were US citizens at the time of my birth, and I was born right here in the USA. Go me! I am totally a US citizen, and I can run for President of the USA! Neener, neener, neener!!! :nahnah:
Well, it will be interesting to see whether or not the Supreme Court decides to review this case in full. I’m betting not, but you never do know with this group. Some of them are a little weird.