Comments on: Berg vs Obama: A brief update

By: Pathia

Pathia — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Has Berg countered the fact that Snopes, factcheck and a few other places have got copies of the birth announcement in a Hawaii newspaper? I suppose they could have commissioned the announcement from the Savannah some how! 😀 😛

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:02:55 +0000

LOL!!! Oh…. and did you notice my new hair color??

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:36:12 +0000

Mary–
No, I’m not certain. All I know is that the twins, Fran and Joe, were adopted from Italy when they were in second grade. And it was in 7th grade, I think, that we attended their naturalization. (But I’m an old fart…that was back in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s.)
Most people couldn’t tell the brothers apart but I determined that I was going to learn a physical difference between them. It must have worked. I didn’t see either one of them again after 8th grade. Then about ten years ago, I saw Joe in the mall on a visit home. He wasn’t just astounded that I recognized him after some 30 years but that I still knew it was him and not Fran.
Hmmm…surely there’s a job in Homeland Security for me….

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:21 +0000

Eddy,
Are you certain about the process of citizenship for adopted children? It was my understanding that a child (who is too young to speak,etc…) can have citizenship passed to them once adoption was completed (without a long process.)

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:11:10 +0000

John K.–
Does adoption by an Indonesian confer Indonesian citizenship? Children adopted by American parents still have to go through the naturalization process to become US Citizens. If adoption by an Indonesian does confer citizenship, does it also revoke US citizenship? And–if an Indonesian adoption took place–did it have any impact on the citizenship of Obama’s mother and did it somehow trump hers?