Mark Levin Addresses Ted Cruz Eligibility Issue posed by Ridgewood, NJ Man at Book Signing

Mark Levin: Before we jump in, all I can say is, Wow! You guys, open your microphones a second. Thousands of people at both booksignings. Wasn’t that unbelievable?

Mark Levin: And the people were just spectacular, weren’t they? Except for one guy in New Jersey which I’ll talk about later.

Mark Levin: This… this birther stuff is way, way out of contr…”Now Ted Cruz” … I swear I almost hit this guy… “Ted Cruz is not a citizen!” No, he’s born to an American mother, no he’s born in Canada to an American mother. So all you pregnant ladies travelling overseas: According to certain birther, uh, groups, if you have a child while you are on vacation, they’re not Americans. They’re not natural-born Americans. I just thought you’d wanna know, if you were thinking of your kid as a potential presidential candidate, uh, because they say so. They have no historical background whatsoever… None! But it’s, it’s just amazing! Absolutely stunning! But we had so many wonderful people, and let me add, all races, both genders… I don’t know the sexual preferences, that wasn’t a requirement to say hello…young people, elderly, middle age people. A particularly young crowd, yeah, we had dogs come too, everybody so well behaved, and uh, it was a pleasure. In New York, we were there about four-and-a-half hours, in New Jersey about five, five-and-a-half hours, and I wanted to be respectful to everybody, so… I just want to thank you all, and this Saturday, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, at Barnes and Noble. I should add, if you want to see the crowd that was at New York, Mr. Producer went down the line, and this was early on, this, this line kept growing and growing throughout the day…you can go look at uh MarkLevinShow.com on our website, as well as the social sites MarkLevinShow Facebook, MarkLevinShow Twitter. Um, Christians, Coptic Christians are being wiped out in Egypt. Their churches are being burned to the ground….

Steve: Oh, I got a great story for you, I loved your uh, Hannity special, I enjoyed it very much, I listened to it three times over the weekend…

Steve: …I got my wife, I got my wife to tape for me, or TIVO it, and she watched it. And she really enjoyed it. She’s not big on politics or anything, and she gets sick of hearing me talk about it, but it was funny ‘cause she said “He is so calm, Steve.” He was, she was trying to do a little wifey/husband training? And…

Steve: she said “He is so calm, and he gets his point across. He didn’t raise his voice, or get upset…

Steve: …and I laughed so hard. I said “How do you, uh, where do you think I learned how to yell?” [laughs] “I just listen to Mark.” And she knows you’re my hero, I go around quotin’ ya, and tellin’ everybody to listen to ya, and…

Steve: she just … to get me to calm down a little, and I said you just need to listen to Mark. [laughs]

Mark Levin: Well, thank you, uh…well listen, you know what, this is called passion, just remind her it’s passion, you know, and um…what was truly exceptional about the Hannity program, number one, the man has enormous class and decency, and number two, he was asking me questions because he wanted me to inform the public about what I’d written, and to engage the studio audience. And notice we didn’t have a bunch of left-wing bomb throwers just yelling and talking over people. There were conversations actually occurring, did you notice that?

Steve: Yes, there was no crazy, I mean a lot of times he’s got the left wingers on there, and it’s just, kind, it’s almost funny to watch, but that was so interesting and…and it didn’t get me upset, and it just, I just wanted to listen to it over and over and absorb every second of it, and every bit of information, it…it’s just brilliant, Mark, I, you know I hope when um…we’ve got President Cruz, he has the wisdom to make you his chief of staff or vice-president.

Mark Levin: No, no no no no no. And he’s got a great chief of staff, by the way. No, I…I do what I do, and uh, and he will do a great job should he be president. Thank you for your call my friend. And uh, I’m so sick of these birthers. I was going to tell you about this, uh, incident. Just a wonderful group of people, uh, we were in Bookends, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and everyone was respectful until…and it was hot outside, it got hot, hotter than uh originally forecast and it was a very long line, and you know we try to go through it quickly out of respect for everybody in line, but I also try to be respectful to everybody in line. Um…but this fella [breathes out] gets in my face and first of all he points to some obscure note on page I don’t know whatever and he said [cough] excuse me folks, and he says “You were wrong about this, you were wrong about”, and honestly I, I, I didn’t have time to read it, and I’ll go back and check it, if I’m wrong about it I’ll fix it, and that happens sometimes in these books when you’re going into the notes, you might put a word when you mean another word, or a state when you mean another state, so I’m going to check it out, I just haven’t had time. And then he goes, he says uh “And Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. He’s not a natural-born Citizen.” And I thought to myself, you know I, this is not a subject that I have studied so thoroughly, but he’s born of a mother who is an American citizen. Doesn’t that make him a natural-born Ci… “No, but he was in Canada when he was born!” Okay, but she wasn’t Canadian, she was an American citizen! She was an American citizen. And so, the issue isn’t what the Constitution says in that regard, the issue is how do we interpret that. And the way I interpret it is, his mother’s an American citizen, so he’s an American citizen! That’s not a constitutional issue, that’s an interpretive issue… or, a statutory issue if Congress has passed some law subsequent to that to enforce that provision of the Constitution. So, the face of the Constitution isn’t terribly helpful. If he was born of non-citizens in a foreign country that would be easy, and there’s a lot of easy cases. So the guy gets in my face, and he starts pointing and pointing, and I looked at him and I pointed back, and I cursed, unfortunately, but the, because, uh you know, he was…he was a nutjob. And I thought to myself: Why do you come here and do that? Is this, is this sort of the way you…you excite yourself or something? No. So, I just want you folks to know who like Ted Cruz. I…I assume they’re going to do this to Rubio, or some of these other people too, whether you like ‘em or not for president I’m just making a point, but now this has become an entire industry. And of course [chuckles] Ted Cruz [laughs], he immediately issued today or yesterday his long form birth certificate. Now, some of this is probably coming from the left. So now they’re the birthers. But some of it’s coming from others, too. People just get obsessed, or conspiratorial, and there’s no end to it, on a matter like this, and there’s nothing I can say or point to that’s going to change their mind. But in my view there’s no doubt about it that he’s eligible for president, should he choose to run, just as I believe McCain was eligible for president, when he ran. So…that’s my opinion! You may not like it… But what particularly bothered me about this guy…he was disrespectful in his conduct to everybody else standing there. They were pleasant, talking to each other, you know…listening, watching and so forth. I’m a big boy; I’ve seen this and a thousand times worse. But he was quite obnoxious. He’s the only one…oh no there was another guy, had a prob, wha wha, he what…he had a problem, he was screaming upstairs, I don’t know what he was screamin’ about. It was kind of eventful there in New Jersey. No, there wasn’t anything like that in New York, was there boys? [Staff: No. Peaceful in ji…you know in Long Island] It was peaceful on Long Island! [chuckles] But is was peaceful in New Jersey, too. It really, really was. It was just terrific. If you could have seen that line, well, actually you can. We have the uh video, and this is just the start of the day with the line. It got longer and longer at uh… at Book Review in Long Island if you want to take a look on MarkLevinShow.com or MarkLevi…oh there is now? The…the New Jersey line? Okay. Both lines. On MarkLevinShow.com, are they both on the social sites too? Or…just the Long Island. But we’ll put the other one up later so some of you can see yourselves, too. Alright. GoldLine!

(further information and videos at: http://queenofliberty.com/2013/08/14/mark-levin-rolls-out-his-new-book/)

The issue in question has nothing to do with making anyone like or dislike Sen. Cruz or any other politician. This issue is all about the rule of law, honesty, integrity, leadership, trustworthiness, and the willingness to sacrifice personal advantages for the protection and defense of the society and the Constitution governing that society for the purposes of preserving a constitutional republican form of government. This is all about the citizens failing their civic duties and failures to and refusals to make their political representatives accountable for respecting the rule of constitutional law. Z It is about dishonest citizens deceiving themselves and others in order to encourage, assist, or at leastcondone the unlawful acts of political representatives for their own purposes. When enough of the society’s citizens behave unlawfully and corruptly, there can be no other result than a corrupt society with a corrupt political leadership, and a descentinto lawless poverty, death, and destruction. It all begins with people choosing to do the wrong things for supposedly good intentions. Like whomever you want, but insist upon doing so lawfully.

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NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER POSTED ON THIS SUBJECT COUNTS, under the law.

Cruz is eligible to be President.
The ONLY legal authorities under the Constitution to say otherwise are the States and Congress.
The States and Congress agree with ME on this one.

Do you or do you not acknowledge the Constitution enumerated the power for the Congress to repeal the immigration and naturalization statute that stated persons such as Ted Cruz who were born abroad would be considered as citizens of the United States and the power to also revoke the same U.S. citizenship of these persons, including Ted Cruz? Forget your denying the relevancy, because it is always relevant when a potential candidate for POTUS could have his U.S. citizenship revoked bby Congress even while serving in the Office of the President of the United States. You cannot get any more relevant than that, even if the circumstance is exceedingly unlikely yet remains legally possible.

Congress has the right to strip any Citizen of his rights of Citizenship, under treason or other laws.

You are way off base. You have decided what YOU want, and now you are grasping at straws and making things up and inventing your own law.

Ted Cruz is a Natural Born Citizen. There is no doubt. NO authority on the subject disagrees with me.

“he was a nutjob”...

Jeff Winston: Quite regrettably, Mark Levin misdescribed this interaction. I know, because not only was I a witness to the interaction, the guy whose behavior he was misdescribing was me.

The “an uniform rule of Naturalization” clause in the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to enact ordinary U.S. statutory law that recognizes as U.S. citizens individuals who are not natural born citizens of the United States of America. Any statute Congress enacts by exercising its narrowly-defined power under this clause is, by definition, a naturalization law, defining at least in part who is, or may become, a naturalized citizen. This is so, even if the words “naturalization” or “naturalized” doesn’t appear in the language of the statute. The citizens so made or so recognized are properly referred to as naturalized citizens. Natural born citizens and 14th Amendment Citizens are the only other types of U.S. citizens, the former by virtue of birth in a U.S. state to parents who are U.S. citizens at the time of birth (this is the only class of individuals whose U.S. citizenship has never been drawn into question—no U.S. law has ever addressed their status), and the latter by meeting the requirements of the 14th Amendment as set forth in the majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case U.S v. Wong Kim Ark (Wong Kim Ark was born in a U.S. state to Chinese parents who were statutorily recognized permanent U.S. residents at the time of his birth but were not themselves U.S. citizens).

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