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RugerP345 wrote:Unless I'm reading whats posted on SCOTUS's website, it looks like both applications were denied. I see where it reads that a response is due by Dec. 1st, but as it stands, Justice Souter denied both applications!

Justice Souter denied the application requesting an injuction to postpone the Nov 4 election until the issue of Obama's citizenship was resolved. His denial of the injunction simply allowed the election to be held.

Nobody knows what the Court will do after Dec 1 if Obama doesn't produce his original birth certificate. However, if the Court decides he's not a US citizen between Dec 1 and Dec 13, when the Electoral College actually meets and casts its' votes, then I guess McCain would be President. I don't see that happening, though. That would likely start such civil unrest that it would result in another civil war or revolution. And that's something NONE of us want.

srothstein wrote:I have to admit that I agree with Annoyed Man on this issue. Obama is a natural born citizen since his mother was a citizen and all the rest is smoke and mirrors. But now I am curious as to why the SCOTUS would want to look further into it. I am going to have to read some breifs if I can and research it further.

Not necessarily. I was born in a civilian hospital in Seoul to my dad, who was in the Army, and my mother was a South Korean citizen. As I was born premature, and the only two incubators in all of South Korea at the time were in a civilian hospital, that's where I was born. Because I was not born on a US military base, even though my dad is American, I was born a South Korean citizen and am now a naturalized US citizen, not a natural born US citizen. Therefore, I can't run for President.

Just because one of your parents is American doesn't mean you automatically are if you're born on foreign soil. Note that US military installations abroad are considered American soil, as are embassies.