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'Questions Are Being Asked': Chuck Todd Takes On Sen. Ted Cruz's Potential 'Birther Controversy'
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/questions-are-being-asked-chuck-todd-takes-on-sen-ted-cruzs-potential-birther-controversy/ ^ | 11:50 am, May 6th, 2013 | Meenal Vamburkar

Posted on 05/06/2013 9:44:33 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter

“Another birther controversy could be brewing for 2016,” MSNBC host Chuck Todd informed on Monday. Though this time aimed at a Republican: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who was born in Canada. While Cruz likely doesn’t face any real eligibility problems, Todd acknowledged, “questions are being asked.”

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How exactly is “natural-born citizen” defined? Since Cruz’s mother was born in the U.S. and his father became a citizen in 2005, Todd explained, going on to list similar scrutiny faced by President Obama, George Romney, and John McCain.

“The legal evidence seems to side with Cruz,” Todd argued, “but there is a grey area, and that may be all his opponents need.”

“It’s pretty clear that he qualifies as natural born,” Peter Spiro, a professor at Temple University, stated in response to Todd’s earlier question about how the term is defined. To clarify, Todd summed up: “If you are born to U.S. citizens abroad, no matter where, if they are U.S. citizens, if…one of your parents is a U.S. citizen — then that should qualify as natural born.”

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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

If you have American citizenship by birth, which Cruz has, that is sole allegiance to America.

My grandson is a citizen of America and England. In order to give sole allegiance to a country, he would have to drop one of those citizenships.


21 posted on 05/06/2013 10:04:23 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: GraceG
->>BRING IT!!!

Amen. all roads lead to Obama, bring it on.

22 posted on 05/06/2013 10:04:48 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Christie at the beach

“We got disloyal McCain, didn’t we and the liar Obama is another issue. I see Cruz as a natural born citizen.”

If Cruz runs for the presidency, then he himself is being ‘disloyal’ to the Constitution, specifically Article 2 Section 1.


23 posted on 05/06/2013 10:05:22 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

Not one word mentioned about two U.S. citizen parents creating their offspring ‘sole allegiance’ to the United States.


No, because the prog narrative is that Obama Jr. was BORN in Hawaii. Ted Cruz was born in Canada.


25 posted on 05/06/2013 10:06:13 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

->If Cruz runs for the presidency, then he himself is being ‘disloyal’ to the Constitution, specifically Article 2 Section 1.

That is not true because his citizenship comes by birth. I don’t agree with your view.


26 posted on 05/06/2013 10:08:29 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Marcella

Dual Citizens are not Article 2 Section 1 Constitutional natural born citizens. Read these words by the father of the 14th Amendment VERY CAREFULLY.

“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))

If you owe or share allegiance with a foreign sovereignty, you are NOT a natural born Citizen eligible to be president. How can you be eligible for the U.S. presidency with a Canadian birth certificate?


27 posted on 05/06/2013 10:10:04 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

Ted Cruz would make an excellent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader, or Governor of the State of Texas. He is not eligible to be POTUS and neither is Barry Soetoro.


28 posted on 05/06/2013 10:10:34 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“So you’re saying Ubama is eligible?”

The problem with Hussein, is, we don’t know whether his American mother filled out birth records at the time of birth to designate him as an American. I think he was registered by the parents as a Kenyan and that’s why he has made sure he got a fake Hawaiian birth certificate.


29 posted on 05/06/2013 10:11:16 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Christie at the beach

“That is not true because his citizenship comes by birth. I don’t agree with your view.”

Again.

“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))

Ted Cruz is a statutory Citizen who owes allegiance to Canada. A statutory citizen (bestowed by man’s pen) can never be a “natural born” citizen (bestowed by God/nature).


30 posted on 05/06/2013 10:13:50 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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To: Theoria

“Vietnam is filled with plenty of ‘NBC’ from soldiers partying with hookers.”

A birth record filled out by a parent at the time of birth designates the citizenship of the child. If a Vietnam “hooker” fill out the birth record and claimed American citizenship for the child based on the American soldier father, the baby would be an American. The mother could also claim the baby as Vietnamese and the baby would have dual citizenship.

In order for the baby to be anything but a new piece of flesh, a record has to be made by a parent and filed with government.


31 posted on 05/06/2013 10:16:04 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Marcella
The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'

British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya

32 posted on 05/06/2013 10:16:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

“If you owe or share allegiance with a foreign sovereignty, you are NOT a natural born Citizen eligible to be president. How can you be eligible for the U.S. presidency with a Canadian birth certificate”

He has an American birth certificate, not a Canadian birth certificate.


33 posted on 05/06/2013 10:19:35 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

Your concept in what you believe is not what I see.

Again.


34 posted on 05/06/2013 10:19:59 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

So is F. Chuck Todd a birther??


35 posted on 05/06/2013 10:21:33 AM PDT by Obadiah (High speed, low drag.)
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To: Marcella
'In order for the baby to be anything but a new piece of flesh, a record has to be made by a parent and filed with government.'

That still is a 'NBC' via hooker. Kinda belittles the born in America citizenship when ya can just produce one in your 'own' country.

36 posted on 05/06/2013 10:22:21 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter
“If you are born to U.S. citizens abroad, no matter where, if they are U.S. citizens, if…one of your parents is a U.S. citizen — then that should qualify as natural born.”

Well, that's settled then. How long has this Todd-anus been on the SCOTUS? In fact, I propose that all legal matters be handled by the MSM. Closing the courts could save this country a fortune.

37 posted on 05/06/2013 10:22:59 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

:British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya”

That’s what I believe and I think he and the wife registered him as Kanyan and not American. Neither one of them cared one whit about America but they did Kenya.


38 posted on 05/06/2013 10:23:33 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Cold Case Posse Supporter

Bobby Jindal was born in the United States.


39 posted on 05/06/2013 10:26:07 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Bobby Jindal was born in the United States”

He was born before both of his parents naturalized as U.S. citizens. He is not a Constitutional Article 2 Section 1 natural born Citizen. He is a statutory citizen.


40 posted on 05/06/2013 10:28:28 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
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