Originally Posted By: the G-man
I'm going to give Obama the same benefit of the doubt I gave McCain. As far as I'm concerned, if one or both of your parents are a US citizen, that makes you a natural born citizen.



 Originally Posted By: britneyspearsatemyshorts

that's not the law, why the sudden opposition to the rule of law?


Actually, my position pretty much IS the rule of law. As a general rule "natural born citizen" means someone who was born a US citizen, as opposed to someone who wasn't born a citizen but later becomes a "naturalized citizen" (ex: Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Both McCain and Obama were born to American parents. Therefore, under the law as it is generally understood, they are natural born citizens.

The people on both sides of the aisle making this argument against one candidate or the other are, in my opinion, playing a silly semantic game, trying to warp a generally accepted term of law.