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Originally Posted by csirl http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=722706#post722706
McCains family are originally from Donegal - there's some town up their where most people are related to him.
Most people seem to be related to most people up here
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Originally Posted by csirl http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=722706#post722706
Palin is from an Irish catholic background. Her family - Sheerins, are from Roscommon.
I bet the Sheerins are keeping schtum about that one!
No, it was Kenya, and it's not in OffalyRead something on paper before that Obamas mothers people were Keaneys or Kearneys from Co. Offaly. We don't hear much mention of this so just wondering.
No, it was Kenya, and it's not in Offaly
We don't hear him mentioning his Irishness.
-- Another question yet to be resolved is whether Mr. Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States, a prerequisite pursuant to the U.S. Constitution. There is evidence Mr. Obama was born in Kenya rather than, as he claims, Hawaii. There is also a registration document for a school in Indonesia where the would-be president studied for four years, on which he was identified not only as a Muslim but as an Indonesian. If correct, the latter could give rise to another potential problem with respect to his eligibility to be president.
Curiously, Mr. Obama has, to date, failed to provide an authentic birth certificate which could clear up the matter.
Not only has Offaly no coastine, it is the only county in Ireland surrounded by counties with no coastline.His great, great,great grandfather was supposed to have sailed from Offaly way back. This is his mothers side of the family. Called Fulmuth Kearney. We don't hear him mentioning his Irishness.
Not only has Offaly no coastine, it is the only county in Ireland surrounded by counties with no coastline.
Not only has Offaly no coastine, it is the only county in Ireland surrounded by counties with no coastline.
Laois holds that honour.
Extract from column in US newspapers today.
This issue about Obama not being eligible for US President as he was not born in the USA and/or has duel citizenship is still running. I cant understand how the papers over here havent picked this up - the most important election story out there right now.
The qualifications listed in the example quoted above are moot because they refer to someone who was born outside the the United States. Since Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, they do not apply to him.
Extract from column in US newspapers today.
This issue about Obama not being eligible for US President as he was not born in the USA and/or has duel citizenship is still running. I cant understand how the papers over here havent picked this up - the most important election story out there right now.
I think that is because it is baloney. I read about this months back and the snopes website has a good article on it.
It is ludicrous to think that someone could get this far in a presidential election without having the necessary qualifications. If this were true, his oponents would be over it faster than any past dealings with a 60's dissident (or terrorist as they call them these days...)
It is ludicrous to think that someone could get this far in a presidential election without having the necessary qualifications. If this were true, his oponents would be over it faster than any past dealings with a 60's dissident (or terrorist as they call them these days...)
I think that is because it is baloney. I read about this months back
I thought that naturalised was when you become a citizen but were not born one?Obama is a naturalised, born in the USA citizen!
I thought that naturalised was when you become a citizen but were not born one?
Ok - I did some research on the Factcheck.org which bills itself as a non-partisan group that checks all the claims made by republicans and democrats. They have an exhaustive bit of research into this claim which seems to show that even if there is an on-going court case, the facts speak for themselves:
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They have personally checked out the birth certificate and have even found a birth announcment in a Honolulu paper at the time. I for one am convinced that as far as anyone can possibly prove, Obama is a naturalised, born in the USA citizen!
Factcheck.org is part of the Democratic Party election machinery !!!!!
How come you checked out the birth cert when its confidential and has not yet been produced? The document you saw is not a birth cert, its just a registration of the birth of a US citizen who could have been born anywhere in the world - this is similar to the foreign birth register Ireland operates. This document only proves that Obama is entitled to US citizenship as his mother was a US citizen and usual residence i.e. Hawaii at the time of his birth. It does not state exactly where he is born, which could in theory be anywhere in the world - this is only found on the long form of the birth cert which Obama has refused to disclose. He also hasnt answered the Indonesian adoption/citizenship issue which also bars him from the presidency.
(from the site)
The certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: "your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records." The names, date and place of birth, and filing date are all evident on the scanned version, and you can see the seal above.
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