Not by one of the birther theories, by which Obama was born outside the USA. Same reason some use to claim McCain was not NBC, despite the remarkably callous argument that children of American flag officers serving overseas should not be considered eligible for president.
There is no argument that I'm aware of that Rubio wasn't born here. It's just that one or both of his parents weren't yet citizens.
The truly ludicrous part of this argument is the implicit assumption that someone born on American soil of two American citizen parents will therefore by some odd sort of natural law be inherently more loyal to this country.
Despite the evidence thrust in our faces daily that tens of millions of American citizens who meet this criteria nevertheless loathe and despise what their country has traditionally stood for.
>> “Not by one of the birther theories, by which Obama was born outside the USA” <<
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Then Obama himself is a Birther theorist. That is what he said of himself for many years. It may be the only truth he has ever uttered. There is still no visible, palpable evidence that he was born in the US.
>> “Despite the evidence thrust in our faces daily that tens of millions of American citizens who meet this criteria nevertheless loathe and despise what their country has traditionally stood for.” <<
But at the time the constitution was penned that was not so. Such persons were quite rare at that time.