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Nope... Born in South Africa...

u r racist. a capable person will take country higher. be positive!

You're missing the point. It's actually written into the American Constitution that the president must be born in America.

I don't think the above comment had anything to do with his capabilities. Merely the practical difficulty in becoming president. (It would require a constitutional amendment.)

Remind me which continent Obama was born on?

Whatever you consider Hawaii part of...why?

If a Kenyan can become POTUS, why not a Saffrican?

Because the actual law as written excludes someone not born in America from becoming president.

Obama was born in Hawaii, so he passes. Musk was born in South Africa, so he doesn't.

It would take a constitutional amendment to change the law. Highly unlikely.

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