Too bad Rubio is not brave enough to publicly say: ‘I am honored to be asked to be the VP or the pres, but I am not constitutionally eligible to be the pres or VP because I am not an article 2 natural born citizen. There is evidence that Mr. Obama is not a nbc. The so-called birther issue is a constitutional issue.’
He's way too smart to say anything so hare-brained, since he knows it's not true.
There is evidence that Mr. Obama is not a nbc. The so-called birther issue is a constitutional issue.
Evidence? There is no mystery about who his daddy was. The guy became rich and famous from a book about his father. He burst upon the national stage giving the keynote at the 2004 Democrat convention:
Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let’s face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father -- my grandfather -- was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
No one raised a constitutional issue over his father. His supposed ineligibility was all about forging a birth certificate to cover up having being born in Mombasa, yadda, yadda, yadda.
It was not until December, 2008, after the election, that Leo Donofrio, having failed on the facts, turned to the law and cooked up his cockamamie definition of NBC, designed to exclude Obama.
Sorry, it's too late for that. If the Supreme Court ever takes up the issue, they'll define NBC as entitled to citizenship by birth. That will include Obama, McCain, Rubio, Jindal, Haley and will exclude Schwarzenegger and Kissinger. It will also seem perfectly reasonable to the people, because it's the common understanding, whereas adopting Donofrio's definition would seem contrived to screw Zero by judicial fiat.
The concept of "natural born citizen" did not require the parents to have been citizens. It stipulated that the parents (actually just the father) not owe allegiance to any foreign nation. Resident aliens on the path to citizenship, having renounced such allegiances, would have fit the definition.
I don't know if Rubio's father was a resident alien when Marco was born, but he was an exile from Castro and certainly owed him no allegiance. So, though it's clear that Obama doesn't qualify, I don't think it's settled at all that Rubio doesn't. Just my opinion.
Oh, and yes. Hannity's a talentless hack.