Posted on 01/16/2016 3:43:22 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Stinkin’ Canadian. Dang feriner, conspirin’ to come over here and replace our delicious, crispy, all-American bacon with that floppy, communist, Canadian crap. And Budweiser? Like your Budweiser? Forget it. If he’s elected, it’s nothing but that skunky Molson swill for you, my friend. Football? Banned. It’s all sticks, pucks and missing teeth from here on out. A wall on the southern border? ISIS? TB-infected Mesicans and Central Americans? Ha! A mere diversion. Trump needs to build that wall up north to keep commie Canucks like Ted Cruz out of the White House.
He’s gaining on The Donald, you see. And so finally the question of his eligibility to serve as our 45th U.S. president is fair game. Oh, sure, Ted grew up in Houston, Texas. And, oh, sure, his mother, who happened to be over the border in Canada when Ted was born, is a U.S citizen, herself born in Wilmington, Delaware, which, oh, sure, automatically makes Ted a U.S. citizen from birth. But, hey! I, the guys down at the Elks Lodge with their pocket constitutions and whatnot, and Donald Trump, who, with his own political self-interests in mind has suddenly flip-flopped on the subject, all disagree. Ted Cruz is ineligible to serve as President of the United States based upon our extreme-minority take on the phrase, “Natural-born citizen.â€
For that matter, and based upon our own arbitrary and narrow definition – I know, it’s not defined in the Constitution, but derpity derp derp anyway – some might suggest that eight of the first nine U.S. presidents should have been ineligible to serve as well. Since they were all born as British citizens in the British colonies, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, et al., should have been, one and all, constitutionally ineligible.
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you make that up today? Congress passed an immigration law which says differently.
Think you need some coffee this a.m.
Nope. Parents have to be US citizens.
And that is why Oboma was ineligible to be P no matter where he was actually born
Godebert seems to clear up the 14th Amendment counter-point handily.
Kind of funny ... but I shouldn’t laugh out of respect for Cruz supporters ... he clears up the 14th in Post 15.
Also out of respect for Cruz supporters, posting link list of what I like about Cruz. FRegards ....
Well - now your just making too much sense. :-)
He can’t.
What I like about Cruz ...
Cruz: ‘We Need Quite A Few Constitutional Amendments’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381654/posts
“Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won’t”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3379878/posts
Cruz Against Big Ethanol
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381754/posts
Top of the food chain in the legal community [except on this question so far] and legislative experience.
If Cruz is elected, we will need a passport to visit his childhood home and place of birth.
After that, the door to the presidency is wide open to every country on the planet, as long as you can prove you share some DNA with an American.
Born of US citizens on US soil. These are the natives or natural born citizens. They are natural because they can be nothing else, but pure Americans.
14th Amendment covered in Post 15.
But please know — I do like Cruz and wish the best for him.
I have no way to comprehend your question.
Obama’s Father was not an American citizen.
Cruz should have kicked off his campaign in Calgary by publicly burning his birth certificate.
(In case the grammar police are watching)
I just want equal treatment for conservatives and progressives.
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OMG - the 14th Amendment doesn’t amend Article 2 requirements for POTUS. Loony.
“All of my life it was COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD that to be president you had to be born in AMERICA. Why have we walked this back? Why the desire to challenge the wisdom of the Founders? It is mind-boggling.”
Born of citizens of the United States.
That was what I was taught in American history in high school. But some of the champions of the Constitution, such as Mark Levin, and ALL Cruz supporters, will call you a moron for saying that.
Rubio has probably never been legalized, and the man is supposed to be third in line to be president.
Check out post 17, Cruz’s citizenship is well laid out. Constitutional in origin.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381875/posts
Ping
It's not just that. It's the definitely self-imposed part. Obscuring those Goldman Sachs loans coming to light at the same time the Princeton/Harvard grad was insulting NYC values crumbles his narrative and gets him labelled for his hypocrisy.
What I first said about a week ago, with yet another one of Cruz's too-slick explanations, is that sometimes Cruz is so smart that he outsmarts himself.
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