Ah! This should clarify a few misconceptions!!!

[MarAzul]

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

From a real newspaper? No fucking way.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

From a real newspaper? No fucking way.

It's a hoax from the FOX News facebook page.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that: The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].
Whether this letter is "real" in the sense that its writer intended it to be taken literally by readers is something that can't be answered definitively (since the author is not identified by name), but almost certainly it was penned as a spoof of Democrats rather than as an earnest letter from a Democrat. The tone of the letter is tongue-in-cheek throughout, implausibly consisting of nothing but multiple obvious absurdities piled one atop another and recycling a number of old jokes, such as the notion that a person born by Cesarean section is not considered a natural-born citizen and the humorous stereotype of the individual who publicly proclaims himself as being "proud" of his membership in a particular group yet insists on remaining anonymous.

Last updated: 11 February 2013
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp#MSZyAIo7TUwiiZC1.99​

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Holy shit. I guess that is a real newspaper in the literal sense. That anyone would believe that to be anything other than a joke is beyond me.

 

[MarAzul]

Beaufort-Morehead City is a beautiful place. I love to spend time there. The thing I find difficult to believe is, there is a Democrat living there?

 

[Eastoff]

"Redistribution of wealth" was the big red flag for me. No Democrat would use that word in a Newspaper. We like to spin it differently, even if that's the concept.

 

[donkiez]

Holy shit. I guess that is a real newspaper in the literal sense. That anyone would believe that to be anything other than a joke is beyond me.

I know huh? the fact that so many people believe and repost this kind of crap just makes me question their overall judgement on pretty much everything.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

"Redistribution of wealth" was the big red flag for me. No Democrat would use that word in a Newspaper. We like to spin it differently, even if that's the concept.

dude..read it again, it is real...

Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that:
The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp#JGqFGks97ze1U5Se.99

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

dude..read it again, it is real...

Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that:
The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp#JGqFGks97ze1U5Se.99

Oh sweet 6lb 8 oz baby Jesus. If I write a letter to a newspaper saying that I used telepathy to make that missing plane reappear on Jupiter will the world stop looking for it?

 

[donkiez]

dude..read it again, it is real...

Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that:
The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp#JGqFGks97ze1U5Se.99

snoops says mixed. IF it is true Ill eat my words. But there are dummies on both sides of every argument.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

snoops says mixed. IF it is true Ill eat my words. But there are dummies on both sides of every argument.

hahahaahaa yep, have to give you that.

 

[jlprk]

"We Democrats" at the start of the 2nd paragraph told me it was probably fake. So I skimmed for the phrase and there it was, over and over.

This is how reading Dear Abby and Ann Landers used to be. You could tell they were all fake letters.

 

[Eastoff]

dude..read it again, it is real...

Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that:
The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/modernway.asp#JGqFGks97ze1U5Se.99

Yeah, I read all of that. =]

Whether this letter is "real" in the sense that its writer intended it to be taken literally by readers is something that can't be answered definitively (since the author is not identified by name), but almost certainly it was penned as a spoof of Democrats rather than as an earnest letter from a Democrat. The tone of the letter is tongue-in-cheek throughout, implausibly consisting of nothing but multiple obvious absurdities piled one atop another and recycling a number of old jokes, such as the notion that a person born by Cesarean section is not considered a natural-born citizen and the humorous stereotype of the individual who publicly proclaims himself as being "proud" of his membership in a particular group yet insists on remaining anonymous.

 

[maxiep]

snoops says mixed. IF it is true Ill eat my words. But there are dummies on both sides of every argument.

 

[MarAzul]

The part about the Natural born is a real hoot!! So far from the real meaning but then not so far as is currently accepted by the majority of current day voters.

The only place the that I can find where "Natural Born Citizen" is defined, is in the Law of Nations.

The book was contemporary with the times of the creation of this nation and the Constitution
So I suspect that definition is indeed the correct definition. Farther study would reveal that the founders did indeed use this document for guidance;

"Perhaps no one brought as much learning about the law of nations to Philadelphia's constitutional debate as Jame Madison, a young Princeton graduate and a delegate from Virginia."

http://books.google.com/books?id=XS...BA#v=onepage&q=Law of Nations Madison&f=false

 

[MarAzul]

"We Democrats" at the start of the 2nd paragraph told me it was probably fake. So I skimmed for the phrase and there it was, over and over.

This is how reading Dear Abby and Ann Landers used to be. You could tell they were all fake letters.

Why don't you tell us what Nature Born Citizen means.

 

[barfo]

Why don't you tell us what Nature Born Citizen means.

Born in the forest, raised by wolves.

barfo

 

[3RA1N1AC]

corporate wolves