Heaven Help me from the Ignorant

The latest claim making its way in various forms is that Barack Obama is not qualified to be President because he’s not a natural born citizen of the United States.

Claims range from the trailer park ignorance level statement to the effect that “…he weren’t born in the USA, he were born in Hawaii *scratches unwashed left armpit*” to the only slightly less ignorant form “…he weren’t born in the USA, he were born in Hawaii which weren’t a state yet *scratches behind unwashed right ear*” to an argument about the naturalization law in effect at the time of his birth which required his U.S citizen parent to have resided for at least 5 years in the U.S. after the age of 16. Meeting this requirement would be impossible because his mother, his only U.S. citizen parent since his father was a Kenyan national, was only 18 when Obama was born.

Aside from the fact that even if Barack Obama and his legion of educated advisors couldn’t figure this out, or hoped no one would notice, Hillary Clinton sure as hell would have brought it up, it’s all simply nonsense.

To the lowest breed that doesn’t know that Hawaii is part of the USA, here’s a news flash for you, it is. Even before it became a state it was a U.S. Territory so, according to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, anyone born there even before statehood would be a naturalized U.S. citizen. Which is sort of irrelevant since Hawaii was already a state when Obama was born there. This also makes his mother’s residency a moot point. Anyone, regardless of the nationality of their parents, born in the United States or in a territory subject to U.S. jurisdiction, and this includes places today such as Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands (but interestingly enough not American Samoa), are natural born U.S. citizens, period, end of discussion.

The scary part is that we let morons that circulate stuff like this vote and reproduce.