“Birthers” my backside.
There is no debate about where Marco was born (Miami in 1071)...the controversy has to do with his parents’ failure to get themselves naturalized until 1974.
Marco is a good man and a superb talent I was among the first to back him against Crist but according to the understanding of the Founders of “NBC,” he is clearly ineligible to be president or vice president.
Only a constitutional amendment would change that.
Either we take a constitutional view or a crass political view. I’ve made up my mind. The Constitution rules, always.
Holy cow! He was born in the year of the Battle of Manzikert? Well, I guess that puts to rest the question of whether the Spanish ever discovered the Fountain of Youth ..... evidently, they did!
Way to go, Marco! Now, where's the fountain?
He and Helen Thomas were classmates.
“There is no debate about where Marco was born (Miami in 1071”—— wow he looks good for 940 years old :-p
FWIW, I agree with you 100% about the rest of your post. The people who define “natural born” as requiring American citizen parents are full of it- all it requires is that the candidate be born in the country. To hold otherwise would mean that Thomas Jefferson (English mother), Andrew Jackson (both his parents were Irish immigrants), James Buchanan (Irish father),Chester Arthur (Irish father), Woodrow Wilson (English mother) and Herbert Hoover (Canadian mother) would have been ineligible for the presidency, something I’ve NEVER heard seriously debated anywhere.