I’m sick and tired of this nonsense. Play time is over, the democrats are laughing at those who are turning birther arguments against Republicans like Rubio and Jindal.
It doesn’t matter if his parents were naturalized or not as long as they were legal resident aliens as I believe they were.
And hell unfortunately under current interpration of the law even the child of 2 illegal immigrants would be regarded as kosher.
No court is gonna stop Rubio from being sworn in if he is elected and that’s the end of the story. There is a case to be made he doesn’t deserve to be VP based on the MERITS. Those that don’t like him should stick to that (you know stuff people actually care about).
The Democrats are laughing because they don't give a rat's behind about the Constitution, as they've demonstrated over and over again on many fronts. On the other hand, we constitutionalists do and we know what Natural Born Citizen means, or at least what it meant to the people who wrote it into the Constitution.
This is not exactly a "birther argument" about Rubio and Jindal, nor is it any personal grudge we hold against them. We know they were both American born. It's just that no man is above the law (as Theodore Roosevelt famously said), regardless of his political ideology or popularity, and that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. (That holds for women as well, BTW.)
Rubio and Jindal can continue to excel in their present positions for which they are, respectively, constitutionally and legally qualified. It's just that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they don't qualify for VP or POTUS.
It doesn’t matter if his parents were naturalized or not as long as they were legal resident aliens as I believe they were.
That's not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they required that the President be a Natural Born Citizen (if born after the adoption of the Constitution). The Natural Born Citizen requirement was extended to the vice presidency by the Twelfth Amendment.
“And hell unfortunately under current interpration of the law even the child of 2 illegal immigrants would be regarded as kosher.”
This MUST be changed. Both as matter of national security as well the GIGANTIC economic costs associated.