Posted on 07/31/2004 12:05:09 PM PDT by CovenBuster
Make that "dual"!
Thanks for the correction in the title.
Welcome.
If a you must be native born to run to president, then why can the first lady be foreign born..?
It doesn't make sense, especially in these modern times of "co-presidents."
Perhaps an issue could be made of this. At the very least an issue could be made that an American woman doesn't seem to be good enough for Monsieur Internationale.
Well we've had foreign-born Secretaries of State and other high level positions. That bothers some of us too of course, since it's part of the succession!
Secretaries of State like Kissenger and Albright were ineligible for the office of the President and were automatically excluded from the line of succession.
I don't believe the United States recognizes "dual citizenship" per se.
Now, that's not to say that you can't be a citizen of American and also recognized by another country as a citizen of that country.
My husband was Canadian until he was naturalized. Our son technically has dual citizenship in the eyes of the Canadian government, but not in the eyes of the American government.
At least that's how I understand it.
Here's a link talking about it.
http://www.us-immigration.com/information/dual_citizenship.html
She is also a native of the planet Pluto.
Considering the amount of influence Teresa appears to have over John Kerry (for example, her prime time speech at the DNC), does this make him the Mozambique Candidate?
Because there is nothing in the Constitution that forbids it.
I was just watching the video of her on Chris Matthews show. Chris asked her if she and JK had talked about the choice of a VP. She responded that she would like to be Vice President...but that she can't because she was foreign born.
When you are natuaralized as an American citizen, you renounce allegiance to any other government.
The U.S. considers you are only an American at that point.
(Other governments might ignore this, but a natualized citizen is only an American.)
A president must be American-born. Of course, there is no restriction on a "first lady" being foreign-born.
I have friends in Texas that are both Mexican and American Citizens. Weird...I don't understand it.
I'm a citizen of Occupied Dixie. Does that make me a dual national?
THK is a dangerous woman and not to be trusted. She will have access through her husband's conversation to very classified, sensitive information. She is an internationalist and we are indeed in trouble if she gets the keys to the White House.
First Ladies were simply the wives of Presidents when the paperwork was written and as such, hostess of his home and State Hostess. The term First Lady came exclusively with Hillary. It has no official standing as a title.
Prior to that it was a term used sometimes, sometimes not.
Post #14 explains it.
In the eyes of the American government there is no such thing, but they acknowledge that certain countries may still let you consider yourself as a citizen once you have become naturalized (even though the US Naturalization process makes you declare allegiance to the US and give up your citizenship in your country of origin).
The person might consider themselves to have dual citizenship because their original country of origin did not make them give up their rights as a citizen when they became an American.
Oldie but goodie..........
A few notes on Mrs John Kerry (She hates being called that, by the way!)
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married to Senator
Kerry in 1995, she only took his name eighteen months ago. She is an
interesting paradox of conflicts. I thought John Kerry was scary, but he
doesn't hold a candle to his wife ...
Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique,
the daughter of a Portuguese physician, and was educated in Switzerland
and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United
Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a handsome
young American H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He
told her his family was "in the food business."
They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran
the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three
terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning
diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member John
Kerry.)
Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a
Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator, his
pilot and co-pilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He
was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.
Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune, she
married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator from
Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her
radicalization was set in motion. Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling
people that she required Kerry to sign a pre- nuptial agreement before
they were married. John Kerry may not have check-writing privileges on the
Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and
uncomplaining b6eneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through
many years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the
hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who
believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
So how does Mrs... Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one example:
According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of
WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4
million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the
Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
They support numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's
International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein
when he's tried.
They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides
Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic
Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from
"terrorist" states.
They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are
known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front
during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been
arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with
terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing.
They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary
goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to
Mexico.
These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the
anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our
would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz,
and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th
President of the United States.
If voters will only try to imagine a woman such as Teresa Heinz Kerry, the
fairy godmother of the radical left, laying her head on a pillow each
night just inches from the President of the United States, hopefully they
will decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the
White House is with an engraved invitation in hand
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