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In reply to the discussion: Rep. King Goes Birther: Suggests Obama’s Parents Telegrammed Hawaii Birth Announcement From Kenya [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)30. Due to her young age, it does matter
If you were born on or after 12/24/52 and before 11/14/86, and ONE of your parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, you may have acquired U.S. citizenship at birth if the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the USA for periods totaling 10 years prior to your birth, at least 5 of which were after their 14th birthday.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/canada/303578/pdfs/us_citizenship.pdf
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/canada/303578/pdfs/us_citizenship.pdf
She was born 29th Nov 1942; Barack on Aug 4th 1961. So she had not quite completed 5 years in the USA after her 14th birthday. This is why birthers have been forced to come up with more and more bizarre conspiracies to place his birth outside the USA. Most, like this, end up implying an incredibly difficult logistical operation to spirit his mother away while going to great lengths to make it look like she's in Hawaii, for no apparent reason whatsoever, while, I guess, bribing multiple Hawaiians to register the birth in Hawaii.
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Rep. King Goes Birther: Suggests Obama’s Parents Telegrammed Hawaii Birth Announcement From Kenya [View all]
Adenoid_Hynkel
Aug 2012
OP
No the information in the papers came from the Dept. of Health which they got ...
Botany
Aug 2012
#9
Since she was not yet 19 when he was born, she had not completed 5 years after her 14th birthday
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2012
#37
Methinks the teabagging congressman suffers brain damage from excess inhalation of hog shit fumes.
bulloney
Aug 2012
#11
As I said in a previous thread....The 'New Normal' in the Republican party is abnormal!
LongTomH
Aug 2012
#12
If President Obama were really smart, he'd be retroactively born in Kansas.
Rose Siding
Aug 2012
#15
I think a bigger question is: why are "reporters" still asking reps about this? /eom
dballance
Aug 2012
#20
"Investigate" = Lurking on Alex Jones' site and stealing the latest theories
Blue_Tires
Aug 2012
#32
If she had requested a passport at the appropriate time, there would be a record
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#46
re:Rep. King Goes Birther: Suggests Obama’s Parents Telegrammed Hawaii Birth Announcement From Kenya
allan01
Aug 2012
#24
As if a regular newspaper Joe would recieve a telegram and go ahead and put in a fake birth
brewens
Aug 2012
#51
It has not been conclusively proven yet, that Steve King was born and not shat. nt
Xipe Totec
Aug 2012
#53