The only thing that doesn’t pass the smell test is you claiming to know the contents of every book ever used in schools in the last 100 years and to know what was taught in every school in the country over the last 100 years with regard to the “natural born citizen” clause.
To use your own words “Sorry, there’s no way that is true.” I don’t think anyone would beleive your statements in theis regard are true! God knows, but you certainly do not!
We ladies have only attested to our own real life experiences that occurred before you were even born with regard to what we were taught in school about the “natural born citizen” clause. I do know that in my case I am not lying, and I am more inclined to believe the other ladies since they are only attesting to their own experiences and they are similar to my own.
Since by your own admission you were not even alive in the 1960’s and I had in fact already graduated from high school before you were even born, the liklihood of my remembering what was taught to me is far greater than the liklihood of your knowing what was contained in every textbook used to teach civics classes, and knowing what was taught in every school in this country over the last 100 years.
Oh and by the way, go back and read your history. There have been objections to presidential candidates running for the president with regard to this clause as far back as Chester A. Arthur who may have also been elected as president and been technically “ineligible” due to the “natural born citizen” clause but at the time it could not be verified one way or the other. There have been objections to other presidential candidates as well including John McCain who I personally do not think was eligible either since he was technically born at a hospital that was not in the U.S. even though it is clear he would not have had divided loyalties to more than one country.
Actually, Arthur was eleccted Vice President. He was Veep when Garfield was shot. Arthur never filled the Veep spot.
He is called the accidental president both for that reason, and for the reason that he didn’t run for the office to begin with. His name got onto the ticket through a series of back room deals in the Nomination process. He was considered a safe choice. He had never been vetted before that, as he wasn’t a serious player in the highest politics of the day.
Can you provide a single example of a civics textbook published within the last 100 years that says a person born in the USA needs two citizen parents to be considered a natural born citizen?
No one ever objected to Chester Arthur's eligibility on the grounds that his father wasn't a citizen. Some opponents of his raised the possibility that he was born in Canada, but that's an entirely seperate matter.
In point of fact, in the entire history of the United States, no major party's presidential candidate has ever been challanged on these grounds, despite the fact that multiple candidates were nominated who had at least one non-citizen parent.