To Likeitis: Obviously you are not an attorney. If you were, and bothered to read the controlling law, specifically, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (a/k/a the McCarren-Walter Act), as in effect in 1961, you would recognize that, having been born in 1961 in the US to an ???alien??? father and an 18 year-old mother having US citizenship, Obama cannot be a natural born citizen because his mother could not have lived in the US for 5 years after turning 14. The real question is: WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINATING SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER THE US CONSTITUTION, WHY HAVE THE REPUBLICANS SAID NOTHING ABOUT THIS, AND WHY HAS THE MEDIA IGNORED THIS REALITY?
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Those states—like Iowa and Pennsylvania, also shouted out in St. Paul—are core battlegrounds; Obama knows he must win over many of Clinton's supporters in the coming months if he's to vanquish McCain there this fall. (Florida and Michigan, stars of the party's dramatic rules sessions over the last weekend, are also crucial; Obama trails McCain in both places in the most recent polls.)
As Team Obama pivots into the fall campaign, it will be focusing on states that John Kerry won in 2004—not least Pennsylvania, where Obama lost to Clinton but is ahead of McCain by several points. In Michigan and Ohio, Obama's aides believe the economy will be critical in shaping voters' attitudes. In Florida, where Obama trails McCain, the campaign believes it can be very competitive very soon, with the help of high turnout among African-American voters and students, as well as younger Cuban-Americans. The campaign also believes it can run strong out west—in states like Oregon, Washington, Montana and Colorado—and pick off several Southern targets such as Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.
On Tuesday night Obama was content to leave the table-top strategy 'til later and sketch out the broad terms of engagement for the fall. "The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a debate I look forward to. It is a debate the American people deserve," he said. "But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon—that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first."
Game on.
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