Posted on 01/05/2016 5:12:41 PM PST by gwgn02
He’s not bright.
How to determine NBC status as per U.S. Department of State:
For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:
1. The person’s parents were married at the time of birth
2. One of the person’s parents was a U.S. citizen when the person was born
3. The citizen parent lived at least ten years in the United States before the child’s birth;
4. A minimum of 5 of these 10 years in the United States were after the citizen parent’s 14th birthday.
Not going to happen.
-— I don t recall Trump saying he s ineligible but that it might be problematic. -—
This is called innuendo. He leaves himself an out, like when he said, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba.
He s as good at innuendo as he is at ridicule.
Back in 2013 when Cruz started to make rumbles, here is Fox News and Carl Cameron declaring Cruz ineligible. Listen around the 3 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_SnL0OrNo&feature=youtu.be
Some of the Trump Zealots are just as bad.
I think BOTH should just cut it out.
That can’t be real!!!......Can it? That is the creepiest looking video type thing I have seen in a while. Maybe some idiot liberal produced that as a fake out deal? Please tell me Ted Cruz did not okay that!!!
Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States, under clause 5:
*No Person except a natural born Citizen,*
*or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,*
shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Twelfth Amendment states, “No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” The Fourteenth Amendment does not use the phrase natural-born citizen. It does provide, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
So you’re saying the Constitution is a `living, breathing’ instrument, as the Democrats believe?
That’s what Obama believes too: ‘The law is whatever I say it is ... ‘
This isn’t a complicated matter. It wasn’t complicated seven years ago.
Try not to rationalize and don’t make up your mind as a Trump or Cruz supporter. And you don’t need to `overthink’ the matter. It’s right there in black-and-white. Black letter, primary law. Them come to a conclusion as a good American who can read and think for yourself.
There was a reason the founding fathers made it plain that they qualifying eligibility for both offices to either natural born citizens or a citizen of the US at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.
Finally, it makes a distinction between a citizen of the US and a natural born citizen. There’s no need to add or subtract.
curmudgeonly rant over
So he says one thing in September and another now. This is a pattern with Trump.
Just another politician.
PS “There was a reason the founding fathers made it plain that they qualifying eligibility for both offices to either natural born citizens”.
This is important. Why should we scrupulously adhere to the letter of the Constitution?
Have you ever seen or heard of an American president (before Obama0 actually kow-towing to a foreign power—practically touch his forehead to the floor while obsequiously bowing?
Or seem to intentionally wish to bankrupt the treasury by profligate, nonsensical spending?
or taunt his fellow Americans/
Or lie about wanting “bring us together” and then fanning the fans of racial animosity?
Or intentionally corrupt and degrade our armed forces?
Or neglect his duties to secure the states from invasion, actually suing states that try to protect themselves and flooding us with more illegal immigrants?
Or refuse to carry out the oath he took to defend the Constitution?
We could do this all night, but I think you get the point: they didn’t want us saddled with someone like Barack Hussein Obama.
it’s not the point at all. You’re begging the question.
There are only two offices with this eligibility requirement in America: a natural born citizen is someone born in the United States of parents who are both born in the united States.
Re-think the matter and win the argument—you go away tonight with something you did not have, while those of us who who knew this already leave with what we already had.
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Trump swallows grenade to muffle the explosion.
Trump knows he is history, and is not taking it well.
“How to determine NBC status as per U.S. Department of State:”
“Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by a Child Born Abroad”
These are the rules for citizenship, not Natural Born Citizenship.
No one is claiming that Cruz is not a U.S. citizen.
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Cruz has finished Trump off deliciously. That isn’t easy for Trump to take, so his waffling is to be expected.
This will all be done before Iowa.
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Obviously President Cruz will not be VP material.
The citizenship was settled long ago in a private conference.
Hope you can still breathe after swallowing your ignorant trollery.
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If the Dems thought they had a prayer in a challenge, they wouldn’t be peeing their pants over what is going down in CA.
There is no chance. Cruz got that issue cleared up long ago, and all of the SCOTUS is with him.
Amusing to see all these trolls salivating over vapors.
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