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If Barack calls himself "a citizen of the world," does this not legally delete his American citizenship?
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If Barack calls himself "a citizen of the world," does this not legally delete his American citizenship?



    




TheBansheeofBebop
The only other person I know of who seriously claimed to want to be "a citizen of the world" was John Forbes Nash during his actively-psychotic episodes.

I would rather have a President who makes loyalty to the US his first priority.


laughter_every_day
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Well, JFK called himself a citizen of Berlin and said we are all berliners. He managed to keep his citizenship. You can call yourself whatever you want but that has no effect on your citizenship.


LOTR grl
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Technically aren't we ALL citizens of this world??? I know we aren't living on Mars.


ajones_jjones
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Where is The United States? In the world, so if you are a citizen of United States or any other country you are a citizen of the world. United States really needs to spend more funding on education!


Gravy
Yes, that's exactly how "deleting" citizenship works.


fdm215
No. Did it delete Ronald Reagan's citizenship?


Leah
Truthfully....you're an idiot


Nick
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Even if it did, I would still vote against the Republicans. I will not reward failure.



Kam
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I am also a "citizen of the world". Are you ready to "delete" my citizenship now?


carlosdinterpol
Yes, since no one should be allowed to speak metaphorically.

/sarcasm


Brittany
no...
leave obama ALONE.


Discipulo legis, quis cogitat?
You can't relinquish your citizenship, and are in fact guaranteed citizenship by the Consitution if you were born or naturalized in the US:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Our government cannot revoke citizenship as a punishment as the Supreme Court decided in Trop v. Dulles

Mr. Obama taught Constitutional Law at Chicago, perhaps you missed that class?



robert c
If I am not mistaken you have to be a citizen of the United States to run for President!


weepingannual
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oh wow. I'm changing my vote. I'm voting for the corrupt oil guy now.


Katie C
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no. theres nothing legal to a statement- just like he isn't legally a citizen of the whole world.
in fact you can only get dual citizenship if your mother has citizenship in a country you werent born in.
i actually know of some people with triple citizenship- my dad's friend's kids have triple because their mom has dual in countries they werent born in.
so you cant revoke his citizenship legally
its freedom of speech also...... plus speech isnt legally binding.......


brandon167
Hi:

I'm sure Sen. Obama was making a oversimplification of what ALL people (who live on this planet) are: We are citizens of the world. He wasn't renouncing his American citizenship.


-│♥│Amor'Vintaqe
no it doesn't jack A S S!


davidmi711
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Sorry, not even close.


Forget War Buy More
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No. There is no legally defined 'world citizenship'.


Return of Bite My Shiny Metal...
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No. It is the fact that he never renounced his Indonesian citizenship following his adoption by his step father that disqualifies him as an American citizen. This was not done at age 18 and therefore means he is still an Indonesian citizen.

Edit: JFK never told the people of Berlin that he was one of them. He told them he was a donut.


Ann
Very Good Point!!


Buck Ofama
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It should and we could hope.

I'm just wondering when this joke called Obama/Biden will be over.

These 2 have been a lot of laughs but its time to get serious.





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