Canadian-born Ted Cruz says “facts are clear” he’s eligible to be president

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ^ | 07/21/2013

[Ira_Louvin]

Sen. Ted Cruz rejected questions Sunday over his eligibility to be president, saying that although he was born in Canada “the facts are clear” that he’s a U.S. citizen. “My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She’s a U.S. citizen, so I’m a U.S. citizen by birth,” Cruz told ABC. “I’m not going to engage in a legal debate.” The Texas senator was born in Calgary, where his mother and father were working in the oil business. His father, Rafael Cruz, left Cuba in the 1950s to study at the University of Texas and subsequently became a naturalized citizen.

President Obama has been hounded by critics who contend he was born outside the U.S. and, therefore, ineligible to win the White House. Obama was born in Hawaii. But some Democratic critics have taken the same charge against Obama by so-called “birthers” and turned it against Cruz. The Supreme Court has not definitively ruled on presidential eligibility requirements. But a congressional study concludes that the constitutional requirement that a president be “a natural born citizen” includes those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements.

“I can tell you where I was born and who my parents were. And then as a legal matter, others can worry about that. I’m not going to engage,” Cruz said in the interview with “This Week” on ABC.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I don’t think we have to concern ourselves with whether Mr. Cruz, or Ms. Palin are up for any sort of contest.

:)

Somehow I am concerned about those two, the least of any.

Maybe I’m just being hopelessly optimistic, but I have them both solidly on my radar for 2016.

For real.

[trebb]

It's pretty clear you should engage, Ted. Because it's abundantly clear you're not American-born. I, for one, won't vote for you

Even if he ends up on the ballot against another left-wing commie?

[Reddon]

Maybe I’m just being hopelessly optimistic, but I have them both solidly on my radar for 2016.

Yeah me too. But this thread is depressing. I just see history repeating itself, again.

[winodog]

I was in Ramstein in 64. Second grade and I recall being “drilled” about being a NBC if we were born on base.

Our brothers and sisters would be eligible to be President of the USA. There was a difference and it was a very important distinction.

I recall very little from then but have always remembered that fact. In order to be P you must be born on US soil and BOTH your parents had to be US citizens.

[little jeremiah]

Your comments are the alphaebtic equivalent of dog poop on a sidewalk.

Best if carefully avoided, anything else spreads the stink around.

[Sherman Logan]

Most of us understand the intent of requirement is that a presidential candidate MUST be born in the country to two American parents who are citizens.

I'm not sure where you get the "most" part of this. Quite a number of conservatives, myself among them, believe natural born means citizen at birth. As opposed to a naturalized citizen.

However, for purpose of discussion let us assume your definition is correct. It is profoundly obvious that many millions of impeccably natural-born citizens, by your definition, feel no loyalty to America.

So the requirement, by whatever definition, has failed in its purpose. I don't think even technical violations of the Constitution should be ignored, but the notion that natural born citizens are more loyal is just flatly untrue in today's world.

[okie01]

There's not a single major legal scholar in the entire country, or a single significant conservative legal foundation, who makes that claim.

Not one.

Every historian, every constitutional lawyer, every constitutional law professor, every politician, every party functionary -- and all of the politically-aware citizens -- knew from the time of his announcement that Barack Obama's daddy had been born in Kenya. And was, thus, a British subject and, subsequently, a citizen of Kenya. And that he was in the USA on a student visa when he fathered Barack Obama II.

Barack Obama II was even at pains to tell us all this in his books.

Yet, nobody, absolutely nobody, nary a one of these acknowledged and "well-educated" experts raised a solitary question about Obama's eligibility for the office of President of the United States.

Why would that be, do you suppose?

Could it be because, under the known circumstances, he was, in fact, eligible?

Or was it a grand conspiracy, organized by the almight "they"? Or was everybody -- literally everybody -- paralyzed by Obama's semi-blackness?

Occam's Razor supports the notion that it's the former...

[MamaTexan]

Really?

The definition of the term, “natural born citizen”, was entered into the Congressional record of the House on March 9, 1866, in comments made by Rep. John Bingham on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was the precursor to the Fourteenth Amendment. He repeated Vattel’s definition when he said:

“[I] find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen. . . . ” — John A. Bingham , March 9, 1866 Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., (1866) [page 1291}
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=071/llcg071.db&recNum=332

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So.....how many people does it take in your world to make a baby?

[null and void]

Thinks since one non-NBC is president and no one says a peep now the gate’s wide open now for all and sundry?

Yes.

As a matter of fact it is wide open.

After all, no one with "STANDING" has complained...

[null and void]

Constitutional Eligibility

[Hostage]

The base was a possession of the USA. So I think as long as both your parents were citizens at your birth, then you are NBC.

Even though I think I understand what NBC means, I’m no authority on it and this is why we need SCOTUS to weigh in on this issue.

See Post #73.

[thecodont]

Thanks for the ping.

Tired of Cruz being pushed when he clearly isn’t eligible.

What’s wrong with being Senator, Mr. Cruz? You’re eligible for that. You’re eligible for governor. Both are good offices to hold.

Where are the NBC candidates? Where are the candidates born on American soil of American citizen parents?

[noinfringers2]

Perhaps you can explain why the Founders wrote a Constitution that specifies that for the eligibility for POTUSA a person must be ‘NATURAL born citizen’ and then specified for Congresspersons simply a ‘citizen’. Certainly the Founders were educated and I believe would not have made such a distinction in such an important document if they had not intended such. A ‘natural born citizen’ by the Founders dialogs has several specific tags. I see no need to replace original intention with modern day expediency.

[taxcontrol]

Before you continue to flaunt your ignorance of the Constitution and the law, please read up on Article 1 and the first naturalization act where Congress exercises it’s enumerated powers and expressly states that NBC do not have to be born on US soil.

[sitetest]

Good post.

[RegulatorCountry]

I've long thought the BC crap was a canard, but there's some sort of issue there, likely not place of birth though. Hawaii was notoriously loosey-goosey in that regard. Most likely Obama’s puffed up autobiographies would somehow be shown to be complete and total fabrication.

I think he's listed as illegitimate and therefore white, myself.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Hey we’re the ones who should be looking up.

Everyone else is throwing the USA away.

At least we’re ready to go to bat for everything which is right and strong about America.

Just saying. :D

[null and void]

Palin’s time has passed.

Yes, she's older, she's more decrepit, and has more baggage than Hillary...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Blah.

So who are you supporting?

Thanks.

[1rudeboy]

Entering that definition into the Congressional Record does not give it any elevated status, other than being able to use it as persuasive authority. It’s not binding.