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Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
If he had this card to play all along, don't you think it would have served him better a year ago, or a year from now in the heat of the campaign? He could have let Trump spend millions chasing a red herring, and then made him look stupid at the key moment?
Originally posted by aptness
Right... there’s always a conspiracy. There was one when he didn’t release it, and there must be one now because he released it.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
There has to be some motivation for releasing it today.
It turns out we were right when we said nothing would convince the birthers, including the damn document they demanded to see for years.
Originally posted by Aggie Man
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by Aggie Man
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
I see 'national's and 'citizens' of the United States but I don't see 'natural born' you'd think they'd use that term since it was written in the Constitution.
That is the entirety of the code you quoted. If that's not sufficient, then why did you post it? Also, notice that the constitution doesn't define "natural born citizen". So, the the Code of Federal Regulations is the defining document.
Originally posted by Advantage
Now trump is moving on to the educational records. *yawn*
In other news... while we so ate up with this... a spook shuffle is happening : Panetta to pentagon and Patraeus to the CIA. www.wtop.com...
This is absolutely incorrect. Parentage is irrelevant under US law. It probably always was but has been addressed by the Supreme Court centuries ago.
Originally posted by 2ndFUTURE
Here is a real Hawaii birth certificate from the same hospital the day after he was born.
But he's still not a natural born citizen because his father was never a citizen of the USA. He was barely here.
Originally posted by filosophia
so show me where in the federal code of regulations it defines natural born? All you defined was nationals and citizens. And sorry, the "code of federal regulations" is not good enough. You have to look at the definitions used at the time of adoption of the constitution, not hundreds of years later.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
If he had this card to play all along, don't you think it would have served him better a year ago, or a year from now in the heat of the campaign? He could have let Trump spend millions chasing a red herring, and then made him look stupid at the key moment?
There has to be some motivation for releasing it today.
You should have read the White House page where the long form certificate was posted then, because it explains what you are asking.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
No, quite the opposite, I am only questioning his strategy. People have speculated for a long time that he would release this document at the key opportune moment for maximum political impact, so I just want to know what makes today that moment?
The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore, the President directed his counsel to review the legal authority for seeking access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
If he had this card to play all along, don't you think it would have served him better a year ago, or a year from now in the heat of the campaign?
He could have let Trump spend millions chasing a red herring, and then made him look stupid at the key moment?
Originally posted by yourmamaknows
reply to post by 2ndFUTURE
How come the document from a day later is numbered 10637, and Obama's is numbered 10641?
Is this significant? Wouldn't they be in numerical order? Or maybe it doesn't matter? Some help here would be appreciated.