Yesterday internet news sources reported that a New Jersey man petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare President-elect Barack Obama ineligible to become president because Obama was not “a natural born citizen”, one of the Constitutional requirements to be president.
Lawyers for the petitioner Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J argued before the court that Obama had dual nationality at birth, his father was a Kenyan and a British subject, and his mother was American.
Unlike with the close Presidential election of 2000 that pitted George W. Bush against Al Gore, the court this time without comment simply rejected the New Jersey man’s argument to interfere with the ‘08 presidential election.
Allegations of Obama not being “a natural born citizen” first surfaced over the internet two years ago when he announced his candidacy for president.
Lawyers for the petitioner Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J argued before the court that Obama had dual nationality at birth, his father was a Kenyan and a British subject, and his mother was American.
Unlike with the close Presidential election of 2000 that pitted George W. Bush against Al Gore, the court this time without comment simply rejected the New Jersey man’s argument to interfere with the ‘08 presidential election.
Allegations of Obama not being “a natural born citizen” first surfaced over the internet two years ago when he announced his candidacy for president.
However, officials with the Hawaii Health Department reported that department records indicate that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, the 50th State of the Union. In addition, on August 13, 1961, the Honolulu Advertiser published Obama’s birth announcement, in the notice, the Advertiser listed both his parents’ name along with their Honolulu address.
However, even when faced with the truth, some would rather believe that the President-elect was born in Kenya, with others believing him to be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a child.
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