None of the above...
THE BASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE APPARENTLY HAVE HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS TO THIS “Presidential Kerfuffle”...
From the article:
Consider this historical question: Could it have been the original intent of the Founders to disqualify themselves from serving as president? It was not until Martin Van Buren, eighth president, that we elected a man who had been born an American citizen. There was actually some silly maneuvering around the accession of Chester Alan Arthur in 1881. Some misguided folks then tried to argue that young Chet had been born in Canada and smuggled across the border into Vermont as an infant.
Jindal is the only one on that list that I am even remotely interested in as POTUS at this point. Rubio is a follower and Cruz needs experience while Haley I am just not that impressed with.
John C. Frémont’s father was a French citizen and never sought US Citizenship.
Hispanic, woman, Indian, hispanic...
So it's all about having a "novelty" president these days, huh?
No gringo men need apply.
I haven’t read up on it, but I would thinks the intent of the clause in the Constitution is such that someone born outside of the US to American parents, and moved back to the US soon therafter and raised here is preferable to someone born within the US that moved to and was raised in a foreign country, hence the 10-year requirement. Just my 2 cents.
Since at least 1793, such children of American citizens born abroad have been recognized to be American citizens.
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Yeah thats what I say...
My 3rd great grandfather was born in Canada in 1797...
His parents and grandparents were all born in the US ...
so he was born abroad of of American parents..
he married a woman who was born in Vermont of American parents...she died in Gowanda, NY...
Two American citizens...
Their son, my 2nd gg, was also born in Canada, another child born abroad of American parents...
My great great grandfather therefore was an American citizen...
and his daughter, my great grandmother was an American citizen because although she was born abroad in New Zealand, she was after all the child of an American citizen...
so did that staus reach on down to my grandmother, Dad and then to me ???
Yeppers OK...
Nana, candidate for POTUS...
:)
Counting down to the explosion of Jindal/Rubio are not eligible to be President posts.
Get serious. Who here doubts they will be incinerated by media smears right before the 2016 elections?
Regardless to nobama setting a precedent and the progressive liberals lack of care what the Constitution says, we as conservatives should care and should maintain to the letter and original intent.
This article's argument that the first few POTUS were not NBC, is ridiculous because the Founding Fathers considered America to be America long before the Revolution and freedom from Brittan.
If some Constitutional authority can explain NBC, please tell us in the purest sense what the Founding Father meant.
That said, it sure seems that our most conservative new Stars have an NBC question. I would be delighted if any one of them could be eligible, especially Cruz, who seems to know and love the Constitution more than most and certainly more than the GOPe crowd we are saddled with now.
All three are scheduled to speak at the CPAC. While I feel it’s much too early for 2016. I’m waiting for someone to bring these topics up;
When the democrats decided to remove God or any reference to Our Creator at their 2012 convention. They also demonstrated they are no longer the democratic party of your father’s father. They have become a hyphenated radical unit and should be known as Demo-Coms dedicated to the establishment of a collective idealism using the device of PCP to modify behavior and shed beliefs that they believe would impede remaking their concept of the perfect utopian state. That is hardly democratic because the word democrat idealizes the individual voice.
But Rove, GOPES (GOP Elite Snobs) and RINOS lack the capacity or the understanding or the courage to point to the historic radicalization that occured at that moment and use it politically. Worse yet they are unable to forthrightly defend what the demo-coms have set out to destroy and some are even comming up with their own version of PCP .
Anyone preaching PCP is going down the poisonous road to oblivion . Following a policy of PCP. Politically Correct Politics which the hyphenated democrat party, the Demo-Coms,is using is flat out wrong.Worse yet moral questions such as marriage, sexual practices, family constituency and particularly beliefs those of containing Judeo Christian tenets are being assulted and not defended. That offers a majority of voters no choice in the direction this country is to take.
PCP when used by the Demo-Coms such terms as: Afro-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, White-American, Rich-American ,Gay-American, are more than simply nouns but vehicles used to separate US from each other. Beside separating US from our money the Demo-Coms demand we become adhearents to a system without the constituional constraints on government. Thus surrendering our protections from governmental abuses and excessive bureacracy to the will of a bureaucratic collective which is no longer answerable to the average citizen.
Sadly for the Republicans God remains in Limbo..
He is my choice out of this bunch if he does qualify. He's the real deal.
Hence the inclusion of the "...or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution..." clause in Article II. Or haven't Mr. Blackwell or Mr. Morrison ever read the Constitution to begin with?
So both establishment Republicans and Democrats would probably be OK with this. The Democrats even more so since it would validate Obama's eligibility and they could concentrate on making the folks who disagree with the ruling sit out 2016. Hello President Hillary Clinton!
As long as Romney, Paul Ryan and the other rino (short guy who is now for gay marriage???) isn’t running.
lol...yep..let’s get all our minorities lined up like little ducks
so blacks and latinos will vote for us
it’s amazing how ignorant folks are
the mindset that thinks like this instead of warriors working to preserve a culture their ancestors sacrificed, endured harsh conditions, fought and died for
is what has killed America...plain and simple
and that mindset is as alive here as much as in the GOPe
especially since the Wideawakes bunch is now back..my apologies to the few of them I’m on terms with
every day I see new names that have flocked back
a sure sign of the battle to moderate the GOP more
Of the four, my pick is Jindal: two terms as a governor, he has dealt with executive decisions, budgets, and Fedzilla.
He also spent some time in Congress, so he knows the legislative game in D.C.
My second choice is Haley: again, a governor is what we need...not a mere legislator.
Cruz? Way too little experience...yes, he is a helluva conservative. I love him, but not as the Chief Executive.
Rubio is a great man, too...I just want him to get some executive experience.
Let’s face it: senators do not make good executives. They tend to micromanage too much....and are not good at delegating.
The most effective Presidents in modern times: FDR and Reagan. Both governors.
If you want leaders, look to the state houses...if you want one of 535 know-it-alls who think they know better than everyone else, look to the Congress.
Natural Born Citizen is a special requirement for President and Vice President. It means that one must have two American citizens for parents. Obama doesn’t meet this requirement and neither do some of the people you mention here. It was put in to keep people like putin from having a child with and american and then that child becomeing President.
If conservatives want to be a majority of the electorate, we need to welcome, not put off, immigrants and children of immigrants. Any other stance will result in our "self-deporting" ourselves as conservatives -- from the White House.
In other words, Conservatives must ignore their conservative principle's if they want to convince people to become conservatives (I think).