Meet 'capitulating Canadian' Ted Cruz: First attack ad of 2016 race targets Alberta’s own

National Post ^ | May 29, 2015 | Ashley Csanady

[rickmichaels]

The first attack ad of the 2016 presidential race goes after Republican hopeful Ted Cruz’s Canadian birthplace.

Cruz was born to American parents living in Alberta, so while he’s technically a naturalized U.S. citizen, which is a requirement to run for president, he actually lived in Canada until he was four. The outrageous ad in question looks like a parody but it’s 100 per cent real and produced by a third-party group backing Rand Paul for the Republican nomination. The ad refers to him as the “Rand Man” and includes a clearly Photoshopped image of his head on a buff body.

[Awgie]

I would place a bet that Rand Paul enters the race as a Third Party Spoiler. I am getting that feeling...

[Sherman Logan]

The personal name of the famous Julius Caesar was Gaius.

For people who mostly had at least three names, the Roman aristos are confusing to discuss. Multiple people over centuries with the exact same names. For example, JGC’s father had exactly the same names and they didn’t do Junior and Senior and III.

[Sherman Logan]

Some of the colonists would have said they ceased to be subjects of King George even earlier, when he removed them from his protection and made war against them (using foreign mercenaries).

That idea doesn't work. America declared its independence in July, 1776. The Hessian mercenaries first arrive in America in August of that year.