[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Charles Curtis was born in the territory of Kansas before it was a State. According to the ludicrous “a ‘Natural Born Citizen’ is different than a citizen at birth” contingent, he would not have been eligible to be Vice-President.

And yet, he was.

So yes, since Marco Rubio was born as an American citizen, he is eligible to be President and therefore eligible to be Vice-President.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The NBC “issue” regarding a candidate's parents is absurd. These people should check under their beds or dark closets for another boogieman.

[Godebert]

"So yes, since Marco Rubio was born as an American citizen, he is eligible to be President and therefore eligible to be Vice-President."

Obot nonsense.

Article II of the Constitution requires natural born Citizenship to be eligible for the office of POTUS.

Marco Rubio was also born as a Cuban citizen, the American-born child of two Cuban foreign nationals.

[bolobaby]

You have to give up on this crowd. They are beyond reason.

[Natufian]

Interesting. I looked up Curtis and you’re right. He wouldn’t qualify under the new birther interpretation of two parents.

[MMaschin]

So yes, since Marco Rubio was born as an American citizen, he is eligible to be President and therefore eligible to be Vice-President.

So why was I always told as a kid that you had to be born in the US to be president?

If 'natural born Citizen' is synonomous with 'citizen at birth', why does it matter where you were born? You are a citizen the instant you are born no matter where you are born, as long as one of your parents is a US citizen.

So, with that logic, if your mother had fallen in love with Mao Zedong, you could have been born the son of Chairman Mao, in the middle of tiananmen square, and you would still be a 'natural born Citizen' of the US, and eligible to be president?

That makes sense!

I mean the reason that the whole 'natural born Citizen' clause is in the Constitution in the first place is because John Jay wrote to Washington:

“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American Army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”

So...even though you were born the son of Chairman Mao, and you were born and raised in communist China, that really doesn't make you, what Jay called a 'foreigner'? Does it? Just because you were born and raised by a communist dictator should not exclude someone from the right to be President of the US. Is that correct?

[Kansas58]

Yes, he is eligible, spot on and thank you for the history lesson.

Birthers tend to be stubborn, know it all fools. They have every right to waste their time, but I am tired of them demanding conservative allegiance to their stupid, wrong headed, false beliefs.