Reality v. Clarence Thomas

Might as well clear it up - (0.00 / 0)

The court should have higher priorities than looking at conspiracy theories, but if there is ANY question, it should be cleared up now I guess.

Looking through the internet, there's the claim that Obama's grandmother was present for his birth in Kenya, not Hawii, and that his birth certificate was made up, but If that was the case the GOP (rightfully so) would have jumped on it two years ago.

Do you really think they'll even look at it?

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by: Eric Coobs @ Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 18:16:20 PM UTC

There is no "question" (0.00 / 0)

The conspiracy theories that you perpetuate are not the basis of the SCOTUS conference.

Audrey Singer, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, who is an expert on immigration, said that the Donofrio matter is "going nowhere."

"There is no way that anyone can argue about whether Barack Obama is a citizen," Singer said. "In this country, we have a system known as jus soli or birthright by citizenship. You are a citizen by being born on American soil and he (Obama) was born in Hawaii."

Singer said that Donofrio's argument that Obama's father was a Kenyan national does not matter because citizenship is not based on parentage, but on where someone was born.

"This is the issue that some people have with illegal aliens in our country," she said. "Children of illegal aliens, if they are born in the United States, are U.S. citizens. That is in the U.S. Constitution."

If anything, John McCain, who was born in Panama, poses the greater constitutional question as to his ability to hold the office of president.

Both issues are frivolous.

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by: JC @ Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 18:30:27 PM UTC

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