Posted on 07/06/2015 10:41:12 AM PDT by Isara
Thanks for posting the link. I had only heard a snippet or two. It was quite impressive.
0bama isn't eligible either. see: philip berg
you have no idea what you're talking about or the reasons for the requirement.
Self ping for later thanks for posting. I’ve always wanted to hear his own answer to that question in his own words.
The founding fathers has no control over how other countries bestow citizenship. It's completely irrelevant as to the status of US citizenship. There are many countries that recognizes duel citizenship and many that don't.
The only issue that is germane is whether he was a US citizen at the time of his birth. He was.
it was not the first question. not even close. it didn't come up until 26:08
he also misspoke. he states that a child born aboard to an american citizen is a citizen. this is true. he then added that the child is a natural born citizen. this is false.
it's provably false using logic (*gasp!* oh noes!)
the founders discussed why they included the phrase 'natural born citizen' for the position of president instead of just 'citizen' as they had for every other position. they had two reasons. one was to insure allegiance to the country, at least by birth. and the other was to insure no future king of england could also become president of the united states.
if we believe the 'citizen at birth == natural born citizen' crowd, then william and kate could fly to NYC, give birth to their first son, fly home to england, have him assume the throne before he was 20, then fly back to the US and live there until he's 34... and he could run for president and become both the king of england and the president of the US if he won. obviously, this violates the intention of the founders.
therefore, the ONLY possible meaning of 'natural born citizen' is one where the child was born with no other possible citizenship.
or, as i often say:
A natural born citizen is a citizen naturally... as there are no alternatives.
meanwhile, the left will do what they can, without being obvious, to get TCruz the nomination. they'll then push the eligibility question to the SCOTUS and he'd lose... leaving them to win on a walk.
His mother was a citizen at the time of his birth. That is not disputed.
That was the issue with 0bama. His mother was not a citizen at the time of 0bama’s birth.
which leaves the birth certificate as the only link to citizenship.
this does not address the 'natural born citizen' issue.
see my #27 why that's important
Lol your 27 is awesome to you but silly for most.
We laugh.
well thought out and provocative response to ridicule the messenger and not the message.
a proper rebuttal befitting a progressive.
obama raised & spent over 1 BILLION dollars for his 2012 reelection. So tell me that money does not buy votes.
In a world where both parties do not cheat & played by the rules you would be right.
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