Make that "dual"!
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.
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?
I'm a citizen of Occupied Dixie. Does that make me a dual national?
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
The oath of allegiance is:
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
The oath of allegiance is:
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
Marvin Nicholson Jr., Kerry's Chief of Stuff, has dual Canadian-US citizenship.
Was she ever a citizen of Mozambique. I thought her parents were diplomats there. I thought she was from somewhere in South America.
Regards, Ivan
Who cares?
Slam her on the issues, but don't bother with the dual citizenship, unless you're willing to hit Republicans as well.
The Governator has dual citizenship, but nobody here worries about his loyalty being to Austria first.
What I want to know is -- What year did she become a citizen and how long she was in America before she became a citizen?
I scrolled all the way through Post #103 and there still was no firm answer.
Ongoing Bump.
Is there a good substitute for Hienz Worshestershire Sauce out there anywhere?
Isn't she African-American?
I heard that about Kerry too.