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May the good Lord help and protect me for my rash disregard of all prudence and circumspection...and possibly of any vestige of sanity too, in daring to enter, even for just a quick moment, this contentious issue here again. I just bowed out of another FR discussion about it because I definitely didn’t, and don’t, have the time to pursue it.

But alas...one quick comment....Psalm 23... Psalm 23....

The good Mark Levin was right when he qualified his conversation by pointing out this is an issue he has not studied.....

as Mr. Levin said,
“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!”

We agree. Mr. Levin has patently not studied this issue.
We agree, Senator Cruz is an American citizen.
But that is not the issue, Mr. Levin.
The issue is whether he can possibly qualify as a Natural Born Citizen. As they say, that’s a Horse of A Different Color.

OK, I’m so far out of this thread now that even Beep Beep the RoadRunner can’t catch my dust.

Bye........

Well Gee. The text of the Constitution I found on line says:

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

I read this as the President must be natural born OR a Citizen of the U.S. Not *AND*. I also don't see anywhere where it says that the person who is a Citizen at time of adoption of the Constitution can't also be a Citizen 200 years later and therefore eligible.

Therefore "natural born" is not exclusive of being a Citizen, which Ted Cruz certainly is. Therefore Ted Cruz is eligible. NOT an issue.

That is all.