Posted on 05/05/2013 10:52:38 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
(video at link)transcript: Alex Wagner: Ambition aside there remains a question of constitutionality. Cruz was born in Calgary. That's in Canada to a mother who is an American citizen, so does he pass the natural born citizen qualification for president? Panelist Ben: Well the funny thing is the Obama Campaign last year did not want to make the case. You know, even if he was born in Kenya, we're fine (laughter) so this didn't really come up. But this is totally unsettled. George Romney, Mitt's father was born in Mexico...I think the general theory among lawyers is that if this came up the courts would fine a way to not rule on it. They would say that no one had standing to bring a lawsuit. Who would sue and say they had been harmed by this? What court would want to come anywhere near this? The theory is anybody the American people elect, they'll be fine. The courts will work around the natural born citizen thing, so all this craziness last year...forget it!
ping to MSNBC finally discussing the NBC issue for 5 minutes, now that the election is over and they can try to mock ‘birthers’ and the GOP over whether Cruz being born in Canada will be an issue. Rubio not having even one US citizen parent at birth did not come up. They laugh about courts likely finding Barry to be eligible even if born in Kenya.
My eyeballing of it is that I would say yes to Cruz, no to Rubio
The Dem Progressives have no room to mock. Any aspect of eligibility they bring up the response should be “0bama never proved that one way or the other.” The RNC could run Marvin the Martian.
Leftists are hypocrites to the core they will definitely run stories about how Cruz is ineligible if he runs with absolutely straight faces and never mention Obama. Heck if he wins the nomination you expect the fedgov to begin investigating him.
Yes.
Just let it go. Breathe. :p
haha
So Sarkozy, Bibi and Putin could be the next Presidents of US
In my mind the intent the Founders put into the Constitution for only and explicitly that a ‘natural born citizen’ is the most serious and critical requirement for POTUSA. To wash the Constitution of that substance I believe is a great disservice to the Founders as well as to the integrity of the Constitution and the USA for today’s World happenings.
Here is the unequivocal definition the media and progressives literally tried to hide by “mangling” citations in on line Supreme Court decisions, the keystone paragraph from Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162 (1875):
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.<,/blockquote>”
Thank you. Those are the ONLY kind of presidential candidates we should be supporting, not anyone else, no matter how attractive.
Or is an NBC candidate, simply born on American soil to two American citizen parents, somehow too “plain vanilla” for so many people?
It doesn’t matter where Mitt’s FATHER was born, he was a US Citizen. For that matter, if Mitt was born in Mexico to two US Citizens, it still wouldn’t matter.
Obama was born to a NON-US CITIZEN and to a US CITIZEN WHO WAS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO LEGALLY GIVE OBAMA CITIZENSHIP, much less NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP if he was born outside the US.
That’s a fact that duds on TV don’t seem to handle, or research for that matter.
"They laugh about courts likely finding Barry to be eligible even if born in Kenya."
It's no laughing matter, but instead a Constitutional Crisis of the first order and a breathtakingly grave national security problem, as evidenced by virtually everything that the current "administration" touches. If he can't even be held to account on his very eligibility to hold the office he enjoys, why should he give a flying fig about any other part of the constitution? All bets are off, and he knows it.
The foregoing said, anything can happen, and perhaps the newsies may have caught wind of something potentially explosive in the offing, and are whistling tittering past the graveyard?
The MSM continues to have it their way...whether or not Obama was born in another country is a legitimate question, but it is not (THE) question.
The focus needs to be on the submission of a fraudulent document submitted as proof of eligibility, his birth certificate.
As demonstrated by many comments above, the MSM has successfully defined the issue their way, by keeping the focus on place of birth, rather than fraudulent documents.
Sounds like they are getting worried about Judge Roy Moore case.
I know I sound like a broken record, but I truly believe that Orly Taitz, whether intentionally or not, destroyed the credibility of the NBC issue.
Does anyone remember the circumstances of my being kicked out of the birther club? It began with my criticism of Orly Taitz.
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