Why birthers are stupid

President Donald Trump says he has "heard" Democratic candidate Kamala Harris "doesn't qualify" to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist. As such, she is eligible to serve as president or vice-president. Ms Harris, a California senator, was named on Tuesday as the first woman of colour to serve as running mate on a main-party US presidential ticket.

She is. That's really the end of the inquiry. Anyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural born citizen, regardless of the citizenship of their parents, says the Cornell Legal Information Institute. The Biden campaign sent a scathing statement in response to the president stoking the false conspiracy theory.

After a conservative law professor questioned Ms Harris' eligibility based on her parents' immigration status at the time of her birth, Mr Trump was asked about the argument at a press conference on Thursday.

The president said: "I just heard it today that she doesn't meet the requirements and by the way the lawyer that wrote that piece is a very highly qualified, very talented lawyer. I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice-president.

Law Blog. The facts, not theories, of the issue are clear and uncontested. That is established fact, not theory. In , the Public Health Services, U. If you are not suspicious of a man who hides his history I have a bridge in the desert I want to sell you. If you are unwilling to call for an investigation of a man who attempts to sell you a bridge in the desert I have some beach front property in Florida at the intersection of I75 and Florida 29 that I want you to buy.

If you place a down payment on a contract for the bridge in the desert and the beach front property in the swamp I would conclude that you voted for Obama.

Do you really think AKA Obama would have won the election if all the things he is hiding were made known? Do you really think AKA Obama will be able to finish his first term if all the things he is hiding are made known? Libertards of any age but especially the young pups like this one rarely have the data or the intelligence to support their name calling, obfuscations, smoke screens, charges of racism, etc.

He was, however, a British subject which subjectivity passed automatically to the children per British law. Dual allegiance and a non-citizen father — double jeopardy. Too busy with all of the chaos coming at us these days. May be out of work soon! Crazy stuff. Simply urge you to lay off the birther angle at this time.

Strongly urge. To proceed is at your own peril. Please take warning seriously. This is not a small town cop shop situation here. Let someone else try and make name on this one. Has already started as you probably know. Talking very specific, very confrontational, very scary stuff here. Much bigger fish are circling this. They can survive what could be coming. Not sure about me. Let the big players handle this now.

This thing will either break out big or disappear. There is something there. God help us. Respond more in weeks. The matter surfaced in the Democratic primary, through the preferred medium of conspiracy theorists of the late George W. Bush era, the chain email, circulated by frustrated Hillary Clinton supporters.

She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth. This gives you a vague sense of when birtherism emerged as a conspiracy theory, and of its basic contours: Birtherism is the baseless conjecture that the 44th president of the United States not only was born abroad and was therefore ineligible for the presidency, but also was a secret Muslim planning to undermine America from within.

Conspiracy theories are meant to explain the unexplainable. By , about half of Republican voters believed Obama was born abroad. Nevertheless, birtherism, though unable to prevent either his election or his reelection, would prove appealing as an explanation for his politics. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction.

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