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• Friday, August 22, 2008 07:40 AM

  The party

  This is the only hope for the democrats because.

  I]t seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president after all

  for the following reason:

  Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. natural-born citizen according to

  the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between

  'December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? Presidential office requires a

  natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. citizen

  parents, which of course is what exempts John McCain though he was born

  in the Panama Canal . US Law very clearly stipulates: '.If only one

  parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must

  have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five

  of which had to be after the age of 16.' Barack Obama's father was not

  a U.S. citizen and Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born,

  which means though she had been a U.S. citizen for 10 years, (or

  citizen perhaps because of Hawaii being a territory) the mother fails

  the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama's

  birth, but *after* age 16. It doesn't matter *after*. In essence, she

  was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. citizenship.

  At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at

  the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18 in Hawaii. His mother

  would have needed to have been 16+5= 21 years old, at the time of

  Barack Obama's birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen. As

  aforementioned, she was a young college student at the time and was

  not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time his mother would

  have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Citizen parent.

  Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would

  still disqualify him from holding the office.

  *** Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of Pre

  sident. *** Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, all

  the other info does not matter because his mother is the one who needed

  to have been a U.S. citizen for 10 years prior to his birth on August

  4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16. Further, Obama may

  have had to have remained in the country for some time to protect any

  citizenship he would have had, rather than living in Indonesia. Now you

  can see why Obama's aides stopped his speech about how we technically

  have more than 50 states, because it would have led to this discovery.

  This is very clear cut and a blaring violation of U.S. election law. I

  think the Gov. of California would be very interested in knowing this

  if Obama were elected President without being a natural-born U.S.

  citizen, and it would set precedence. Stay tuned to your TV sets

  because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over

  the next several days. Presidentcy

  Thomas Sowell

  Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow

  The Hoover Institution

  Stanford University

  Stanford, California 94305

  —pathfinder1 Read pathfinder1's other letters
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