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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Lynda wrote:

>  If Berg has proof that his mother gave up
> their citizenship, then Obama isn't eligible to run.

Good grief. I'm not a judge and I have never played one on television  
or any other venue. I'm just an American citizen who tries to pay  
attention. I did attend law school until my common sense told me I was  
in the wrong place. With that intro, my down home American common  
sense tells me that our American laws would not allow a parent the  
power to forfeit her child's American birthright.

Well, sonofagun, here it is:

F. RENUNCIATION FOR MINOR CHILDREN

Parents cannot renounce U.S. citizenship on behalf of their minor  
children. Before an oath of renunciation will be administered under  
Section 349(a)(5) of the INA, a person under the age of eighteen must  
convince a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer that he/she fully  
understands the nature and consequences of the oath of renunciation,  
is not subject to duress or undue influence, and is voluntarily  
seeking to renounce his/her U.S. citizenship.

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html

I am struggling hard to understand why we give any credence to such  
crap. My foggy gray tells me that someone awhile back said that McCain  
wasn't a citizen because he was born in Panama, or some such place.  
Cripes, he had American parents and his father was in the American  
military!

I find such stuff as this just barely above the level of garbage  
gossip, the discourse of the cognitively embarrassed and unendowed. I  
respond only in the hope that a few more people will drag themselves  
up out of the cesspool that this presidential campaign has too often  
sunk into.