Posted on 07/24/2013 2:03:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It would be kind of hypocritical to knock Barry all this time and then shut up for a similar situation except it's your guy.
OTOH, much of law operates on precedent... and for them to start shouting about it now would open themselves up to attack.
I think on this one the Dems have painted themselves into a corner BUT... the right justifiable prides itself on following the law and the Constitution (even when we get clobbered by a lawless opponent backed up by an equally lawless Justice Department when we do it) so if we stand on consistent principle, Ted's out of it.
I like that.
I want to see the Constitution followed, or lawfully amended.
But we can’t function with just half the country submitting to it. It doesn’t work.
We appear to be at a crossroads. It won’t be neat and clean. I don’t know what to do, frankly.
I don’t care if you don’t give a $hit about the Constitution....Look how well that whole....lets go after him on other issues went.....
With all that, it is pretty clear that the president is not any Citizen at all having taken (by legal proxy) Indonesian citizenship which by Indonesian law requires renunciation of American citizenship followed by no legal reclamation of American citizenship. The man is an Indonesian, not an American. The circumstances of his birth are just an oh-by-the-way to that.
With all that, it is pretty clear that the president is not any Citizen at all having taken (by legal proxy) Indonesian citizenship which by Indonesian law requires renunciation of American citizenship, followed by no legal reclamation of American citizenship. The man is an Indonesian, not an American. The circumstances of his birth are just an oh-by-the-way to that.
It appears to me the only way this is going to be resolved in case such as Cruz and Rubio and Jindal is for the SCOTUS to accept a case...
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I dunno. By SCOTUS remaining silent on hundreds of lower court rulings, does that not send a clear signal that Obama is eligible?
I don’t think we need a new Amendment reversing the NBC clause of the Constitution or a Supreme Court ruling. The lower courts have ruled; the precedent is set. Therefore....
Ted Cruz - 2016
Disagree. Just because the bad guys got away with defecating on the constitution, doesn’t mean that we should.
Cruz is not NBC. Let him be Secretary of State.
Thank you. I agree wholeheartedly.
I believe there was a question about the mother’s age when he was born that puts his citizenship in question
It would be nice to have a president with class
I take that I am a ‘birther’. I am a firm believer that once precedent is established there is a hole in the dike,so to speak, that destroys the land and the Nation’s foundation. That I will not compromise in light of my WWII service and the death of my only brother on Okinawa. Obama has obfuscated with the help of enablers his credentials for POTUSA eligibility. His is not a case of having a solid verified claim for eligibility. The important first effort is to tear away his shroud of covering and maintain what The Constitution intended for eligibility. Cruz has no such shroud which is to his credit. As far as I believe now he is a true patriot dedicated to our Constitution. However, as for me he is by nature of birth not to the standards the Founders intended in the Constitution for POTUSA.
Canadian / American wants to be president of the US
seems legit
The Proper solution is a Congressional Act. The wording of the Constitutional provision seems to call for such an act at an appropriate time.
Nope. We have better options than Cruz, folks who are actually eligible. This is just as much a waste of time as it was holding out for Palin when she never announced that she would ever run in 2012.
Well said sir.
If he ran, I would work tirelessly to push him to victory. After Rubio’s downfall, he’s really a contender, since there is no clear favorite right now among the RINOS and Rand Paul who will inherit his father’s base and grow it. I could support Rand in the general enthusiastically, but some of his actions would make me go solidly Cruz in the primary fight. This man is in the mold of the Founders, and I don’t say that lightly.
Cruz would help a ticket immensely as a VP too. He wouldn’t be weak lemonade like Paul Ryan.
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