Posted on 03/06/2013 5:30:00 PM PST by Seizethecarp
At approx 4:15 EST Hannity (radio) interviews Ted Cruz. At the end of the conversation Hannity asks Cruz if he is eligible to run for POTUS. Cruz dodges the question, but Hannity pushes. Cruz says his focus is on our country's problems and he'll leave it to others to decide if he's NBC. When Hannity keeps it going Cruz says he was born of an American mother avoiding place of birth. Hannity brings up the Canadian birth. Cruz says he had American citizenship at birth because of his mother. Hannity concludes something like "well then your'e NBC!"
From MvH:
"Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.
The whole purpose of A2S1C5 was to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that the person entrusted to wield the presidential levers of power would be a person with presumed undivided loyalties. If one or more of your parents are not US citizens themselves, that waters down the gold standard of presumed undivided loyalty to the US.
I must admit that when I leave work @ 3:30 pm est I turn him on just to parrot him in the line you quoted just for a laugh! Too Funny. Thanks.
Excellent, brilliant question that sums up the entire issue. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was American. And, no, of course he wasn’t.
“stealthy way for the owners of FOX to use Hannity to lend credence to the obozo being in the WH. Orders from HQ?”
Hannity has been pushing Marco Rubio as NBC from day one, too, even though he is the equivalent of an “anchor baby” (birth on US soil but no US citizen parent). I think that Ailes and Rove are willing to make a deal with the devil if it will get them a win. Jindal, another anchor baby, was their first pick, but he bombed in his SOTU rebuttal, of course.
So far, the entire law school faculties and federal judiciary of the US appear to be willing to do a “jury nullification” on the NBC clause of the constitution as previously articulated by SCOTUS in the MvH case.
SCOTUS is “evading” the NBC issue, as Justice Thomas correctly stated.
I expect the big money to back Jeb Bush in 2016, so any NBC issues for Cruz and Rubio or others (Haley) will be put off until at least 2020 or later.
That's nice but the USSC has sworn in Obama uncritically twice.
If we fail to throw Obama out on the basis of all those court cases, his Presidency will set the new precedent in practice. Again, the USSC swore him in twice.
It will then become the standard Constitutional interpretation that NBC = born to at least one full US citizen.
It will do us no good to restrict ourselves and our selections when the USSC will have already set precedence for that standard with Obama and a de facto definition of what NBC may include.
Let's run Cruz/Rubio if they're up to the task.
The libs will regret the precedent they allowed go be set with Obama.
FReegards!
I wouldn’t mind having a beer with him but I can’t stand to listen to his relentlessly boring and repetitive mantra. I can’t believe he brings enough revenue to Fox News Channel that they couldn’t pull his show and put something in that primetime slot that would actually bring new viewers to the channel. A program conducted by someone with an actual working brain, for example. FNC gets a lot of heat for being “right wing” when O’Reilly certainly doesn’t put fort a conservative ideology and neither does Greta. Hannity is bringing them a lot of grief for very little gain - I am a conservative but I sure as hell won’t watch his show, so how many liberals or indies do?
I would like Cruz to run for President even if he just proves to be a lighting rod.
Why? A lightning rod like him can help build a more conservative platform for the party to run by putting forth popular ideas by an ability to communicate
Giving people something to vote FOR.
Or lead to another actual viable Conservative party.
LOL!
During the past election season, I had him on in the car and other times, when I normally wouldn’t have. I heard him use those lines FIVE TIMES IN ONE DAY. I finally screamed and turned him off.
Well the Natural Born Citizen clause has been made a mockery of already by the kenyan commie. I’d rather have a Canadian.
If we say he is by nominating then electing him, then he is.
However, I would bet anything that if we did nominate Cruz, the GOP would declare him non-eligible.
I quit watching him, but the local radio station has him and the other switched to a couple of lib Jon Stewart wannabes, so I have been listening to him.
Or was listening to him until I heard him today...and realized he is a sign of the times and this is our post-Constitutional age.
Unless enough people say differently, and quite likely even if we do, the Constitution has been lost and the Republic is dead.
It will take several small revolutions, starting with education, or some form of a second civil or hot third world war in order for the Constitution and the freedom and liberty it guarantees to be restored.
Until then, watch out at the coffee shop. The forecast is calling for Hellfire rain on conservatives here in the obamanation.
“Winston Churchill was an American citizen?”
The USA does not recognize dual-citizenship but Winston Churchill could have been an American citizen if he chose to do so. His mother was born in the good ol’ US of A.
Harrison J Bounell isn’t a NBC either!
Thanks! That lines gonna stick in my head the rest of the day! Lol
Have. Great day,and thanks for the laugh.
MCB. :)
Sean Hannity is a serial sellout. He certainly is no constitutional scholar. Personally I think he wants Rubio in 2016 who is arguably not eligible so he’s looking to make Cruz elibible also. I love Ted Cruz but I don’t think either he or Rubio are technically eligible but if they let Rubio run they better let Cruz run.
Right now Rand Paul is the man as far as I’m concerned and he is definitely NBC.
Good catch!
Will watch for future substantiation.
Winston Churchill was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1963 by act of Congress.
Laws are unclear as to what rights this bestows on him or 6 others so honored.
Oh goody: Our next usurper is on the way.
Let's just go whole hog and get us a pure-breed, third-world, non-American, non-citizen to rule us and be king. Be done with the pretense./sarc
Revealed: How immigrants are gaining U.S. citizenship by getting married on Skype - to people thousands of miles away
Online global unions via webcam are the first step to attaining a visa or citizenship for a non-American spouse
Many fear that such proxy weddings will help facilitate marriage fraud, as well as see an increase in the number of sex trafficking victims
A rise in Skype weddings is allowing immigrants to legally gain American citizenship by exchanging vows from opposite ends of the globe, it was revealed today.
So he’s a big defender of the Constitution until it limits his own personal goals?
Wow, I’m so impressed with integrity. NOT!
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