Easy fix, buy a Hawaiian COLB...
No. Next question.
Stopped reading right there.
I care, too. I say we embrace the left on this one and define and demand that all politicians, current and future, substantiate their qualifications for office with original, long-form, notarized birth certificates.
As ever, this depends on the definition of NBC. So far as I know, the prevailing (not to say correct) interpretation of this is “one who is legally a citizen due to circumstances at / of birth” — that is, someone who has always been a citizen as opposed to someone who BECAME one afterwards through naturalization, act of Congress, etc. Obviously if this interpretation were applied to Ted Cruz, he’s and NBC.
Others believe that the definition should be more narrow and limited to “one born of parents who were US citizens at the time of the birth.” Cruz isn’t an NBC under THIS view.
Not gonna get into that debate again!
Does he owe allegiance to Canada or to the United States of America. Wasn’t that the reason for having to be a natural born citizen in order to be president?
If he wasn’t born in the U.S. he’s not eligible. It’s not complicated.
No, he is not eligible.
Just because the Democrats lie, cheat, and steal doesn’t mean that we should imitate them.
Seems like a good man. But he’s not eligible—any more than the criminal fraud who currently occupies the White House.
No. And neither is Rubio.
So that makes obama a British subject, right?
Assuming BO sr is his real father.
For anyone interested the above linked article gives a lot of background info on Ted Cruz and his family.
I know of no amendments to Article II. Either we have a Constitution that means something or we throw in the trash can. As I understand it, the NBC requirement means born in the U.S. to two U.S. citizens. There is nothing irrational about the framers wanting to be extra careful when it came to the qualifications of the individual holding the highest office in the land. They wanted someone whose loyalty to Country would be beyond reproach, who was born to to U.S. citinzens and had spent a lifetime in this Country being nurtured in what it means to be a true American. If being born to two U.S. citizens was enough, could a guy who was born overseas to U.S. citizens and lived in the foreign country all his live qualify as an NBC citzen? Think about it?
Someone shows a modicum of leadership and folks start talking about making that person President.
The GOP should watch and learn.
All he has to do is show them a phony birth certificate from Hawaii if anyone asks.
No, Claire McCaskill, he isn’t.
ANY Senator that thinks about becoming President and actually runs for the office with the intention of winning, should immediately removed from office by reason of insanity and taken to the insane asylum until he comes to his senses!
Being a U.S. Senator is the best job in the entire known universe. There are only 100. They have vast power. It is almost impossible to unseat one. You only have to be re elected every six years. The pay is good and is supplemented by all the money you can steal and all the insider trading that you can handle. You can keep the job regardless of weather you show up or not and can keep it until death. In some instances like Robert Bird, several years after death. MOST people wouldn't know you from Adam and hose that do are mostly willing to pay you off for a favor.
All and all there is NO downside to being a Senator, unless you have to associate too often with Harry ‘the crypt keeper’ Reid or the Schmuck Schumer! As far as eligibility. Who cares, if O'Bumbler is qualified my foreign born dog could do the job. Probably more competently!
Another cockroach in the DC swamp - Kermit Roosevelt
I know it doesn't! They would not have taken the trouble to designate only one citizen as "natural born" out of all the others listed if there was no difference between them.
I was taught that eligibility is a simple concept, but apparently that's no longer the case. There are no shortage of opinions regarding who is and isn't eligible and why, including several from the courts, bottom to top.
We sure have learned how to complicate things, especially when we just need to twist them enough to get the "correct" answer we're looking for, whether from the Constitution, the Bible, or any other standard.
As soon as I read his birth background, I was sighing. He really seems like a remarkable man, and you sit up and listen when he is speaking. But his asset right now is to keep on doing what he is doing. We NEED people like him in the Congress NOW.