Yes, my family were immigrants, but we came to America legally!

That´s the difference, Jug Ears!

Native Americans came from someplace else.

Our ancestors may have come from someplace else, but they built this country. "You didn´t build this ..." Yes, they did.

Obama can only speak to/of his own experience. Obviously, he came from someplace else and hasn´t bothered building anything he can take credit for.

Obama came from an alien orifice

So what!

My ancestors did not break immigration law, customs law, labor laws; nor did they falsify US documents or committ perjury. We are a nation of LEGAL immigrants, Emperor Strawman. Your open border policy is crushing the working class. Their wages haven´t gone up in three decades. Guess you´d rather have them dependent on your food stamp rolls than to make enough to feed their families. Your open border policy has destroyed Mexican society. You do-gooding liberals help a handful of your pet Mexicans that make it up to your sanctuary cities, but there is no "sanctuary" for the Mexicans left behind in Mexico. They live in a country with no real economy besides gun running and drug smuggling because their able-bodied work force is up in the US mowing some white liberal´s lawn.

WRONG! "Native" Americans came from Asia. They are from someplace else too. And they were not even the first people here. There is now proof that European people came over the frozen Atlantic 15,000 years before the "natives" came over the Bering Strait.

How many decades and centuries before Obama considers me a native American??? My family was here long before there was a United States of America. I think I qualify!

Native: from the Latin word natus meaning born.

Someone born in the country in which they live is a native.

If you have a birth certificate stating that you were born in any of the fifty states or U.S. territories, you are a Native American.

Should not be confused with Aboriginal American.

Last I checked, it´s been awhile mind you, but my birth certificate has Abington, Pa written on it. Perhaps, from Prez Nada this "you´re from somewhere else" is a bit of what is known as transference... I´m sure a bit of photoshop and I can get it to say whatever I want including, Indonesia, Kenya, whatever

Who the heck can understand Obama´s mind. His statements, which of course he does not write, but condones, indicate he has gone "around the bend". In my opinion, he has become unbalanced. Wonder what Dr Krauthammer
thinks ? What in G_d´s name do native Americans have to do with LEGAL immigration.
The examples he uses are mindless and he has become scary to rational citizens, at least many I know personally.

#4 is exactly right. The latest evidence shows that the earliest inhabitants of what is now the United States came from Scandinavia. OMG! White people are the original "native Americans". I want our casinos back!

No, I was born in Wisconsin.

Whatta jeenyus. Two big flubs right off.

As noted by poster[s], the forbears of the Indians also "came here." Land bridge across the [current] Bering Strait.

And... if you are an American from birth, you are a native America.

The "indigenous people" are called American aborigines, or American Indians.

But so what? That justifies nothing.

My family came here on a boat, the Mayflower.

Seems that the Jerk in Chief has one of this type of wisdom daily. A wise blithering idiot is prez.

I was born in the USA, a descendant of legal immigrants. What´s your point, Obama?

#2 beat me to it. I call them Sino-Americans since they came from Asia across the land bridge.

My roots go back to the trail of tears!

How many generations does it take before you are native?

Why does THIS President always think in terms of, ´us vs. THEM?´ He is undoubtedly the most divisive President ever! His feigned ignorance of the USA´s concept of, ´´E Pluribus Unim,´´ excludes all hope of attaining, ´´Domestic Tranquility,´´ as long as he continues his community agitator taunts.

It´s so difficult to watch him speak. Can´t do it! Did he itch his eyebrow with his middle finger again this time? Or did he flip us off with his words?

I was born in a crossfire hurricane....

Somebody brought me?

I´m sorry, I brought myself. Legally.

You dork. you are an ass. I´m a mix just like you. Of Native American (Cherokee) heritage, and German/Russian ancestors. A LEGAL resident whose grandparents came over and docked at Ellis Island. Uncles shot by Tzars for their horses. The Tzar confiscated them just as you steal from us and would have us shot as well. My mother has the Cherokee blood. Granted, not enough to attempt to sponge off your government, but she was as much Cherokee as your lawyer friend, Lizzie Warren I am America. Which is much more than YOU can claim.

My kid´s teacher pulled that same carp on her in high school. I countered by sending a letter with the name, date of birth and place of birth of everyone in our direct line going back to 1750, when the first Chumley got off the boat from Europe. Then I asked this "educator" just how many generations had to be born here before we could be called "real" Americans.
I got no answer, but she never repeated that BS while my kid was in her class.

What #2 & #8 said.

There is a European "Mongolian" mummified human, predating American "Indians" in limbo. The Native American tribes will not allow it to be studied *officially* because it was found on sacred ground.

Many believe that the real reason is because they don´t want a different race to predate them.

Mr. President, we are ALL immigrants here & we ALL must become citizens either through our immigration process, or by a war, take your pick.

Again trying to set the premise, as if there´s no difference between the nation-building encouragement of legal immigration that has taken place for centuries and the current unchecked flow of criminals, freeloaders, and the destitute as they make their way north from the land of the cartels.

Two words for Barack Obama, "Land Bridge". Or maybe "ocean voyagers". Native Americans migrated here from another place.

Nobody "brought" him, he was the son of a Kenyan immigrant and an american citizen and raised primarily in a non african-american culture. He is only related to descendents of slaves by skin color. I´m tired of him and his claims of racism to hide the failures of this administration.

Speaking as the descendant of people who arrived here in 1609 AD and around 11,000 BC, every one of my ancestors came from ´somewhere else.´ And I am a native-born American. Unlike our ´president´ - where are the transcripts, BTW?

Even indigenous people came from someplace else if you go back far enough.

For all his degrees and fancy schools, Obama really doesn´t know very much, does he?

Yes, if you were born here you are a true NATIVE American. By the way, I don´t believe there ever was an aboriginal American because, as I mentioned earlier, they all came from elsewhere. By the way, if those first Europeans were of Scandinavian ancestry, then I too want a piece of the casinos!! Lol!

The human race developed on the African-Europe-Asian land mass.

Any humans living someplace other than that land mass came to where they are from there.

Some of us even have birth certificates to prove it.

They´re just Earlier Immigrants.

This guy is just a complete flamer, through and through.

What a bedwetter and whiner. A tall guy with a Napolean Complex.

Matter of a fact Zippy, somebody did bring them and we were in shipping back then.
And BTW, we did build that. We cling to our guns and religion too.

The Indians are merely itinerant Asians, who came to the Western Hemisphere about 14,000 years ago, and promptly slew all the megafauna (large animals).
I´m a native American. I was born in the U.S.

"somebody brought you" ?

Historians will look back on these last two elections in America and surmise that most of the nation´s lefty voters were psychotic, narcissistic, demented, stoopid, lazy, and compulsive liars.....who liked to "skeet" shoot whenever they could.

B.Hussein is a total pantload, he´s full of it, and anybody in these here 57 states who falls for his Muslim crap is as foolish and pig-headed as he is......Now get me some arugula and warm up Air Force One, I´m going back to Kenya, er, uh, um Indonesia, um, er uh, I mean Chicago......whatever!

He´s appealing to his base, is all. The nofos have no idea where American Indians came from.

If you´ve ever watched THAT 70´s SHOW, This is the part where Eric´s father, RED, walks into the room after hearing what Hussein just said, stands face to face with that skinny skeet shooter, and says one word to him: "DUMBASS"!

This is the best Harvard had to offer America? I´d take a guy from junior college over this ass-clown of a pResident!

Intimidate by inducing guilt. The faux-president knows it works on Republicans every time.

Not that it´s anything to crow about, but I was born in Maryland, Zippity...not Kenya or Iran like certain other people.

These are all great posts. Most of the people posting here are more "native" than Obama is--and I include the immigrants who came here to be "American" and work hard.

I´ve got news for you Barry. Native Americans came from somewhere else too.

For me the key part of this quote is "somebody else brought you."

How Obamaesque to assign agency elswhere. "You didn´t build it, somebody else did." It is ingrained in his way of thinking.

Actually, Mr. President, Native Americans are not native.

They migrated here by way of the Bering Sea Land Bridge over 10,000 years ago.

If it was up to the Mastodons, they would have deported Native American illegal aliens for violations of the Endangered Species act.

Even if his argument were true (which it isn´t), it would signify absolutely nothing in this current debate over illegal immigration.

Another version of "You didn´t build that."

I am a third generation Texan. My great grandparents came from somewhere else -- Virginia.

Does anyone believe that Obama even knows about the "Land Bridge"?
He is one ignorant son of a gun. Pathetic.

He is simply a man without a country. Perhaps he want´s us to feel his pain?

Semper Paratus

Not exactly a man without a country...half Kenyan, half Communist.

Where did you come from President Obama? Also why are your records sealed? I do not believe Lincoln"s records were ever sealed or any other Presidents. What are you hiding?

It wasn´t "America" until after Columbus.

How can the "native Americans" be the first Americans?

Kennewick Man´s remains reveals that he was of European descent, and his remains predate those of the earliest so-called ´´native Americans´´. Researchers aren´t sure yet how or why he ended up in the Pacific Northwest before the Indians, but there he was.

I resent NOT being referred to as a Native American......

I.WAS.BORN.HERE.