Posted on 01/06/2016 2:24:04 PM PST by Isara
Don’t sweat it, once the Dems file a lawsuit, the courts will figure it out.
And by questioning Cruz's qualification Trump is the one making it an issue.
Why does't Cruz just come out and put it to rest?
How?
I’ve yet t hear Cruz explain why he’s a nbc. I get one parent was a U.S. citizen but a caller on a talk show said he was born in Britain to two U.S. citizens and there was paperwork at the embassy. He claims that was a requirement and therefore made him not a nbc.
Personally, I don’t know but all Cruz has to do is come out and give us the facts. I think we’re mostly on his side either our #1 or #2 choice but I’m not sure ignoring it is the right way to go.
Trump has my vote first, then Cruz. That’s because I think Cruz has way less of a chance of beating Hillary. Rally attendance makes that pretty clear.
The facts are out there. Cruz was born in Canada. His mother was a U.S. citizen. Under the law in effect at that time Cruz is a natural-born citizen. Under Canadian law he was also a Canadian citizen. He relinquished that citizenship some months ago. What more is needed?
What a schmuck!!
No, Trump was far slimier in his approach...
"Now I am not saying that my opponent is wide-beating alcoholic child-molester, but I have heard other people say it - I sure hope he can prove it's not true!"
He did, and so did a lot of other people - but the birthers and conspiracy nuts want to keep the waters stirred up...
Hey Levin.....
You failed to raise the red flag when the illegal alien usurper was ineligible for Potus in 2008. Why should anyone listen to you now?
You have some reading to do on Vattel and natural law.
Why does’t Cruz just come out and put it to rest?
How?
For starters, unsealing his INS records.
Can you point me to some sort of proof that his mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, and not a naturalized Canadian citizen?
Then you haven't been paying attention. He explained himself. Go to this link and watch the first video...
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/06/ted-cruz-the-law-is-clear-that-im-a-natural-born-citizen/
There is definitive proof his mother was a US citizen. Can YOU provide any proof that she changed her citizenship? Since you are making the assumption, it seems that it is up to you to prove her status changed, not up to Cruz or anyone else to prove it didn't.
That’d be a first.
She was a permanent resident of Canada at the time of his birth, married to a naturalized Canadian citizen. It’s reasonable to ask whether she was the only one in her immediate family who was not a Canadian.
I posted several times over the course of last Summer that Ted Cruz is eligible. I provided historical links and arguments that make it clear he is eligible.
A MYTH has arisen that a person must be born to TWO CITIZEN PARENTS on AMERICAN SOIL. This is wrong wrong wrong.
1. All women married to an American citizen before the 19th Amendment were AUTOMATICALLY conferred citizenship by virtue of the marriage to an American citizen man. It was automatic, THEREFORE, all children born to an American male were born to TWO CITIZEN AMERICAN PARENTS by default. Further, dual citizenship was PROHIBITED, it was not legal and never allowed. THEREFORE, an American citizen male could have no other allegiance. The same applied to wives of such American citizen males. Whether they were German or Cherokee, French or Iroquois, they were automatically detached from their previous allegiance and owed allegiance to the USA by their marriage to an American citizen.
2. President Madison was repeatedly asked if children born to American parents while SOJOURNING OVERSEAS or AT SEA or IN AMERICAN TERRITORIES were considered as American citizens and his answer was clear; they are American citizens. The key point here is to understand the difference in legal definitions of the terms RESIDENCE and DOMICILE. For example, if Thomas Jefferson were to have had children while serving as Ambassador to France where he maintained a RESIDENCE, then his children would be considered to be American citizens. If he were to claim a DOMICILE in France and live there, his children’s status would be uncertain and need adjudication. But Jefferson retained his DOMICILE at Monticello in Virginia. THEREFORE, any children he would have anywhere in the world would be considered automatically to be American citizens.
3. After the 19th Amendment was passed, American women were allowed to vote, they became equal in terms of citizenship and voting rights to American males. Thus, a marriage by an American woman to a foreigner, while she maintained a DOMICILE in the USA, was the basis for her children to be conferred American citizenship. The foreign spouse would be eligible for citizenship but would need to renounce prior allegiances because dual citizenship was not allowed. The notion of dual citizenship is a relatively new development driven by cross-border migrations.
Note that NONE OF THE ABOVE touches the issue of BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP which arises from an abominable twisting of the 14th Amendment.
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AT ROOT, the concept of citizenship is planted in the notions of ALLEGIANCE AND LOYALTY. It was John Jay that brought to the attention of General George Washington the need for a strict ‘Natural Born’ provision for eligibility to be President of the USA and this concern was rooted in ensuring that the President, as Commander-in-Chief, should have the requisite ALLEGIANCE and LOYALTY to hold office.
What we are seeing with Ted Cruz is a cloud of uncertainty comprising a LACK of ALLEGIANCE and DISLOYALTY CARRIED OVER from Brack Obama to taint Ted’s status as NBC.
Ted Cruz is eligible to be President of the USA both legally and in the spirit of the Constitution.
I am not happy with Donald’s attack on Ted’s eligibility.
I am unhappy with BOTH Ted and Donald today for their shallow and flippant response to the Hammond situation in Oregon. I am so disgusted with their responses that I question if either is fit to hold office.
Here is the truth of the Hammond dilemma in Oregon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx4ocLdWE90
Their response should have been much more comprehensive. Yes, the law must be obeyed and respected but the law including the cast of awful jurists and awful agency officials should be examined and investigated thoroughly on grounds of a miscarriage of justice, AND demands should be, even if futile, should be made strongly to Barack Obama to consider clemency to the Hammonds while the law is under review.
But neither Donald Trump with the “Big Heart”, or Ted Cruz with the “Brilliant Constitutional Mind” bothered to get the facts and make the appropriate statement. They both blew it off. SHAME ON THEM!
Too bad nobody else thinks this...from either party.
I suggest you quickly go back to your day job, playing the classical guitar. Conspiracy theories will rot your brain.
Leni
quote “Trump never said Cruz was not eligible. Time for the lying articles to stick to the truth.
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EXACTLY!
I can’t decide if Trump does this on purpose time and time again or if the press is so desperate to end him that they purposely do this over and over.
All I know is the result is the same over and over. Trump says something everyone can agree on, but says it in a way (or the press purposely reports it in a way) that makes it seem like he said something completely different and nutty.
Thanks for saying this for me.
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