Obama Citizenship - Dec. 5

The Supreme Court of the United States is considering the case of Donofrio v. Wells which raises the question of President-elect Barack Obama's birth certificate and whether he was not born in the United States. Technically, he would be inelegable to hold the office of President of the United States if he were born on foreign soil.

The intent of the founding fathers who wrote the natural born citizen clause into the Constitution was not to prevent someone who was born of a mother who was an American citizen and who happened to be caught in a foreign country when she gave birth and who returned to the United States weeks after giving birth.

Rather, the intent was to prevent a foreign fat cat such as, to use a theoritical example, George Soros, from coming to the United States, obtaining citizenship, and then buying his way to the presidency.

Obama was probably not born in the US, otherwise he would have produced his birth certificate, something he has failed to do. Perhaps in the future, presidential candidates should be required to produce their birth certificates when they declare their candidacies.

Obama, however, was elected fair and square and the will of the people should be honored. Let's put this issue aside.