Talk:Early life and career of Barack Obama#Edward Said

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It is apparently a fact that he was a dual citizen of Kenya and the USA until 23 (factcheck.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20120425214011/http://factcheck.org/2008/08/obamas-kenyan-citizenship/

Have any other presidents had dual citizenship since the founding generation? Isnt this noteworthy?

126.250.7.243 (talk) 23:53, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

:126.250.7.243 - Your comment leaves out details from that archived Wayback Machine article that can be read in full by following your link. For example, dual citizenship was not a choice consciously made by the infant Obama.

:"The Rocky Mountain News did in fact run an online article asserting that Barack Obama holds both American and Kenyan citizenship. The article was incorrect, and the paper removed the item from the article and ran a correction. The paper’s editor, John Temple, formally apologized for the error in an Aug. 15, 2007, column. Neither the correction nor the apology has prevented the column from circulating across the Internet as part of the latest set of baseless rumors that Obama is ineligible to run for president."

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:"...at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC."

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:"On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya formally gained its independence from the United Kingdom."

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:''"As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama’s father automatically received Kenyan citizenship [...]. So given that Obama qualified for citizen of the UKC status at birth and given that Obama’s father became a Kenyan citizen [...], it follows that Obama did in fact have Kenyan citizenship after 1963. So The Rocky Mountain News was at least partially correct.

:But the paper [The Rocky Mountain News] failed to note that the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya’s Constitution specifies that at age 21 [with a further granted 2 year window], Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya.

:''Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1984."

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