I stopped listening to Rush when he extolled how valuable illegal aliens were for our economy. GAG!
Now that was a few years ago and thankfully he became wise and stopped making those statements. I returned as a faithful listener.
Then, in the past couple years, Rush has said that a Constitutional lawyer (Mark Levin?) told him there is no difference between a “native born citizen” and a “natural born citizen”.
(sigh!)
If true, why did our founders make a distinction in the U.S. Constitution between “citizen” eligibility for Congress, and “natural born citizen” eligibility for the Presidency?
If the only requirement to be President is to be born here, then any anchor baby could grow up to be CIC, no matter what citizenship his/her parents possessed.
It defies logic to believe the founders, who had just fought a brutal war with the most powerful empire on earth, had not thought this out. I’m certain they intended to prevent a person with dual loyalties from ever becoming President and Commander-in-Chief.
The Law of Nations is mentioned in Article I, so the Constitutional congress did read it, and the book was present during debates. Furthermore, it is natural law that a child born in a nation to citizen parents is a citizen, a natural born citizen: a legal statute isn’t required for natural law.
You are right. There is a difference. We don’t give citizenship to everyone born here. The children of foreign diplomats are not currently given citizenship.
Exactly. Which is why immigrants are not eligible! Their children, who have been born here and spent there whole lives here, have no knowledge of the land of their parents except for what they’ve been told or maybe a visit or two, otoh, clearly are eligible. I have seen nothing codified in American law that prevents either Jindal or Rubio from being considered natural born. They would make a great ticket one day.
So he wants two non-NBCs for president.
It’s toast, it’s all toast.
Tree, watering, Jefferson. That’s all I have to say.
Very few Freepers seem to remember Rush as an illegal alien advocate. It was at the same time he was having the oxycontin problem and going deaf. Got off and never went back.
He has been a massive disappointment on the eligibility issue.
I hate to say this in public but you are a liar.....Rush has never once supported illegal immigration and in fact is on record as excoriating both Bush and McCain for their very support of amnesty for illegals.......
Do your homework before you post such nonsense.........