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To: jaydee770
I remember when most Freepers thought that if Obama was born in Kenya then he was not a natural born citizen. I agreed with that position then and I agree with it now. I don't change my position on the natural born citizen clause of our Constitution just because it is a conservative that is foreign born now.

Cruz is the exact same position that Obama was in in 2008, except Obama provided "proof" he was born in the USA and Cruz can not. You can bet the farm that if Cruz is the nominee, the Democrats will attack Cruz as not an NBC and attack conservatives for being hypocrites on the issue. While I consider Hillary unelectable due her incompetence she jut might be able to convince enough people that Cruz is not eligible to get elected. That is a unnecessary risk I'd rather not take.

50 posted on 11/24/2015 7:35:43 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: jpsb

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Obama was born in Kenya to an under-age mother, who was incapable of conferring citizenship on her son.
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62 posted on 11/24/2015 10:37:10 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: jpsb

“...Cruz is the exact same position that Obama was in in 2008, except Obama provided “proof” he was born in the USA and Cruz can not...”

What do you mean Cruz “can not”? Cruz has readily affirmed his birth as a US citizen born abroad. He has no reason to hide it. Ted Cruz’s mother was an adult US citizen when Ted was born and it was her status as a US citizen, above the age of majority, that bestowed Ted’s US citizenship AT HIS BIRTH. He had no need to be “naturalized”.

The first Congress of the United States passed the Naturalization Act of 1790, A MERE THREE YEARS AFTER THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN, which stated that children born abroad to U.S. citizens were themselves “NATURAL BORN CITIZENS”. Unless you can find another, I believe it is the only US statute ever to use the term “Natural Born Citizen”. This statute was passed by a congress that included members who were also authors of the Constitution. I don’t know how to make it any clearer than that. I’ll take the founding fathers at their word. You can do what you wish. Good luck with it!


66 posted on 11/24/2015 8:19:44 PM PST by jaydee770
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