Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President

Slate ^ | February 8, 2016 | Eris Posner

[C19fan]

With Ted Cruz the victor of the first contest of the GOP nominating calendar, we can no longer avoid the question mischievously posed by Donald Trump: Is Cruz ineligible to be president? Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. The Constitution says that only a “natural born citizen” can be president. Is Cruz a natural born citizen? (You may recall that before he attacked Cruz on this front, Trump spent months flogging a ludicrous version of this critique against President Obama, who was actually born in the United States, unlike Cruz.)

[PJBankard]

Well good thing there isn’t a rule about being Kitty Cat, because he would be ineligible twice over.

[Jeff Head]

Pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra from Slate. But who is surprised?

[Steely Tom]

He’s neither native-born American, nor Kenyan.

[Buckeye McFrog]

All it takes is ONE Federal Judge to agree with this article, and we’re all looking at Obama OT.

[Darksheare]

What about Marco Ruboto?

[twister881]

Birthers!!

[dead]

Yes he is eligible and unlike Trump, he’s qualified as well.

[shelterguy]

We have an indonesion in the White House now so a precedent has been set.

[SampleMan]

I keep seeing Slate, Politico, Washington Post, NYT, and CNN being cited on FR. This is nothing new, but what is new is that they are now being cited on the premise that they are vessels of truth and objectivity.

[Jane Long]

Guess the candidate:

No executive experience,
No governing experience,
No financial experience,
No business experience,
No health care experience,
No foreign policy experience,
No foreign trade experience

Freshman Senator

Career politician

0bama/CRuz/Rubio

[DaveA37]

How is Trump not legally qualified to be POTUS, is that job only open to certain people?

[Sasparilla]

Now it starts. A leftist rag casting doubt on Cruz.

[DoodleDawg]

Most important for the purposes of the Cruz question, a natural born citizen cannot be someone whose birth entitled him to citizenship because of a statute—in this case a statute that confers citizenship on a person born abroad to an American parent.

That same statute also confers citizenship at birth on people who were born in the U.S. Does that mean that they are not natural-born citizens either?

[Jane Long]

I keep seeing Slate, Politico, Washington Post, NYT, and CNN being cited on FR. This is nothing new, but what is new is that they are now being cited on the premise that they are vessels of truth and objectivity.

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Agree...some of the anti-Trump pieces, being posted from the outlets you mention, are downright laughable.

[traderrob6]

And, unlike Trump, he’s not a national embarrassment.

[bigtoona]

300 million Americans to choose from and several of the damn candidates are foreigners or in the case of Jeb, he wants to be Mexican. WTF?

The easiest bar to meet for runnng for pres, be born HERE in the US with TWO citizen parents. Jeez...

[Da Coyote]

Translation, they are afraid of Cruz.

And properly so, because he’d make mince mystery meat of the witch and the dunce.

[RummyChick]

Yeah, because the Founding Fathers would have welcomed an Arab Prince or the Duke of Wellington or the Prince of Monoco as King ...uh I mean President. Btw, Prince Albert I married a US Citizen.

Let’s not forget the Napoleon Bonaparte scandal involving his brother and the American Wife.

[jstaff]

Darn right, and both parents of the candidates must have been born here, too.