You know what else no one covers?
The fact that if Ted Cruz were to get elected, he’d be the first President we’ve ever had that was born of a foreign nation.
Like, really and truly born in another country, foreign birth certificate and all.
I think that would be a pretty remarkable moving of the goal posts. Keep in mind, Ted Cruz OPENLY ADMITS TO having a birth circumstance that many “consistent conservatives” tried desperately to prove was applicable to Obama, because Obama being born in Kenya would have made him ineligible.
But somehow, the circumstances of Cruz’s birth are no problem? It doesn’t add up for me. I don’t want future Presidents to be able to come from Saudi Arabia or Cuba.
I’m very much against the loosening of the historically mandatory tradition of the President actually being born in this country, or at the very least, on a base or US controlled territory (by two AMERICAN parents).
That will be news to George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison, all of whom were born British subjects.
But by all means, don't let facts get in the way of a discussion. Neither Trump nor any of his followers ever do.
Your standard has never been THE standard. It’s just that the true standard has never been tested before.
We don't know that Obama is not foreign born. There is some evidence to suggest he was actually born in Canada.