This is a silly argument, there is absolutely no reason to dump Awlaki with Jindhal or Rubio. There are plenty of loathsome human beings who were born here of 2 US citizen parents, should Timothy Mcveigh be eligible to run for President? How about the Batman shooter? Its a nonesensical argument. Awlaki could not run for President because he committed high treason agaisnt the US, not because he doesn’t meet a madeup definition of Natural Born Citizen.
Further to that, he’s dead.
“Awlaki could not run for President because he committed high treason agaisnt the US”
The point of the editorial is that, in the minds of some, al-Awlaki should have been eligible for POTUS at some point before he started his criminal ventures. Being raised in a foreign culture by parents who were foreigners, if had he chosen a path of politics rather than a more overt type of criminality, he could have been on a path to the White House.
Because we live in a free society where citizenship has its benefits, we can’t prevent the Timothy Mcveighs of the world from their acts of menace. However, by folllowing the course the Framers set for us, we can restrict our risk to a domestic environemnt simply by adhereing to a strict definition of the natural born Citizen clause.
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