On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmkahle@gmail.com> wrote:
<<<By law, Romney is an American citizen.>>>By law, so am I. I am, however, ineligible to run for President; I am
NOT a "natural born citizen" and I have always known that. I am,
however, just as eligible as Romney. When did the rules change??
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> *"Romney was born to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico".*
>> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com>wrote:
> By law, Romney is an American citizen.
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>> >> *"All of this makes Mitt the son of a Mexican Citizen. His father
> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:12 PM, THE ANNOINTED, Gaseous ONE <> wrote:
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> >> Guten Abend Mark!> >> * *
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> >> As you (should) know, the NFL Playoffs started today/tonight, and many of
> >> us here North of you were doing our patriotic duty, by drinking American
> >> (and maybe a couple of German) biers, so we didn't have a lot of time to
> >> notice whether Mitt "Utahesque- Mormon White Bread" Romney looked like he
> >> was a foreigner.
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> >> Since it is now a big issue, I do suggest that ALL candidates lay down
> >> their papers, and let's see if in fact they are American thoroughbreds!
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> >>> On Jan 7, 9:10 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American
> >>> > businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO
> >>> > of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of
> >>> > Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing
> >>> > and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He is the father of former
> >>> > Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the husband of former
> >>> > Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney.
> >>> > Romney was born to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico;
> >>> > events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to
> >>> > the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several
> >>> > states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled
> >>> > during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served
> >>> > as a Mormon missionary in England and Scotland, and attended two
> >>> > universities in the U.S. but did not graduate from either. In 1939 he
> >>> > moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers
> >>> > Association, where he served as the chief spokesperson for the
> >>> > automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative
> >>> > arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. He
> >>> > joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became chairman and CEO of its
> >>> > successor, American Motors Corporation in 1954. There he turned around
> >>> > the struggling firm by focusing all efforts on the smaller Rambler
> >>> > car. Romney mocked the products of the "Big Three" automakers as "gas-
> >>> > guzzling dinosaurs" and became one of the first high-profile, media-
> >>> > savvy business executives. Devoutly religious, Romney presided over
> >>> > the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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> >>> > While George Romney was born in Mexico, he was still considered a
> >>> > viable and legal candidate for United States president. His Mormon
> >>> > grandfather and his three wives had fled to Mexico in 1886, but none
> >>> > of them ever relinquished U.S. citizenship. While the Constitution
> >>> > requires that a president must be a natural-born citizen, the first
> >>> > Congress of the United States in 1790 passed legislation stating: "The
> >>> > children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the
> >>> > sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered
> >>> > as natural-born citizens of the United States." Romney and his family
> >>> > fled Mexico in 1912 prior to the Mexican Revolution. However, the
> >>> > Naturalization Act of 1795 repealed the Act of 1790[citation needed]
> >>> > and removed the language explicitly stating that the children of U.S.
> >>> > citizens are natural-born citizens. As such, it is not clear that
> >>> > Romney was actually eligible for the office of president.
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> >>> > All of this makes Mitt the son of a Mexican Citizen. His father was
> >>> > two generations removed from the US.
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