My collie says:

Are you trying to say that you have her beat, CC?

Stupid dog.

It takes a special type of person to be so obtuse about things. Since I don’t know, let me just ask. Are you a bigot, racist or otherwise prejudcied against people for similar reasons?

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Many Republicans still treat Africa as if it is a country. It is in fact a continent. You know, with countries, states, townships, etc.

Lawrence on October 24, 2008 at 12:52 PM

His remark is clearly based on the woman’s race. Your inability to see this is a barrier to your clear thinking. You don’t see harm in his comment but do in mine. Good job.

Also, nobody accused him of “racism.” Learn to read.

I’m not a Democrat; I’m voting Palin/McCain. That doesn’t mean I have to act like a old-school racialist. Conservatism, fortunately, requires no consideration of race in its applied values.

Isn’t she one of Obama’s impoverished relatives that he ignores?
jgapinoy on October 23, 2008 at 9:46 PM

jgaPinoy,

Your cordial, Christian veneer cracks to reveal your true self. Nice race-based attack by a friggin postal worker.

The Race Card on October 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM

How can that statement be racist when there is no reference about Obama’s race or heritage?

What that statement is, really, is a personal attack on Obama’s character. A tactic regularly used by Democrats against any given Republican candidate.

If she really has daughters that are 90, then it is easy to accept she is somewhere over 100. And in this case, with a transcribed birth certificate, 1894 might easily be mistyped as 1874. If so, then she could realistically be at least 110.

Wow….Obama’s father’s mother’s great-great grandmother.

ManlyRash on October 23, 2008 at 9:05 PM

Her skin is her sin I guess. Your mom must be proud of her little Kleagle.

Isn’t she one of Obama’s impoverished relatives that he ignores?

jgapinoy on October 23, 2008 at 9:46 PM

jgaPinoy,

Your cordial, Christian veneer cracks to reveal your true self. Nice race-based attack by a friggin postal worker.

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A lady lives to that age and all she earns are third-grade black jokes. Nice job guys. So much for the big tent.

Wow. Wouldn’t you just love to sit down and talk to her?

malan89 on October 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM

Why?

Can CNN really be this stupid?

This is a serious question. Since Sen. Obama’s mother was obviously an American citizen wouldn’t he automatically be one also regardless of where he was born?

No, the law in effect at the time he was born read that 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.”

Since his mother hadn’t been living in the U.S. for at least five years after the age of 16 when Barack was born (because she herself was only 18 at the time), then he’s not a natural-born citizen by that definition. If he was born in Hawaii, then he is a natural born citizen though.

No. The US laws are not like this. I should know. My mother was born a US citizen, and married my father, a Canadian.

When we moved to the US when I was 15, she had to jump through hoops to bring any of us down with her. Then within the year they got our citizenship-which was a hysterical process where they took me in a room by myself to tell a woman that I truly was my mother’s child and I was born on the day I wa born.. not that I remembered of course.. I just had to take their word for it. :)

Now I know we were stupid. We should have just come in illegally :)

Just went to an inservice concerning these stats. Jimmy–if you live past 40, you’ll be lucky. God Bless and Godspeed–and stay away from the Big Macs.

Bill Clinton would do has done her.

Alouette on October 23, 2008 at 9:17 PM

fixed…

CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”

On another note. The posts on this thread show how much the commenters on this site have degenerated.

Since, yaknow, they didn’t use cars, they had no need for traffic bollards.

This is a serious question. Since Sen. Obama’s mother was obviously an American citizen wouldn’t he automatically be one also regardless of where he was born?

Cindy Munford on October 23, 2008 at 9:31 PM

At the risk of a vdry dry post here it is: If Obama was born in Hawaii to a parent who was a citizen, he is considered a natural born citizen. If, however, he was born in a foreign country, say Kenya, to a U S citizen, but his father was not a naturalized citizen at the time of his birth, he would not be a natural born citizen. His mother would have had to apply for citizenship on his behalf when she returned to the U S. To be a foreign born natural citizen, both parents have to be citizens at the time of the birth or, one parent a citizen, but be on foreign soil due to service to the U S on either a military base or embassy and just not be able to give birth at that base/embassy due to an emergency of some kind.

Whew! Hope that is clear enough cause I ain’t going over it again. Class dismissed!

InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 23, 2008 at 10:39 PM

In truth, what is said about Hussein’s birth is that in 1961, U.S. stated that a child with only one U.S. citizen parent at the time of birth (outside the country) would only automatically be a citizen if that parent had resided in the U.S. for at least five years after turning 16 years old. Since Obama’s momma was only 18 at the time of his birth (known to some as simply, “The Nativity”) she could not have fulfilled that “five-year-after-age-16″ requirement. Had she not gotten knocked up until three years later, it wouldn’t matter.