Posted on 03/11/2013 9:54:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the past few days, there has been renewed buzz on the Internet about the presidential eligibility of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz has only been in the Senate for about 60 days and does not appear to be behind any of the talk. But he has certainly been in the news in recent days, and in response to a request for comment, his spokesman, Sean Rushton, sent me this note:
Sen. Cruz is a U.S. citizen by birth, having been born in Calgary to an American-born mother. He is focused entirely on his new role in the Senate, and on working every day to represent Texas and defend conservative principles in the Senate.
Any talk about Cruz follows years of discussion about birthplace and presidential eligibility involving President Obama, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Marco Rubio. The bottom line in the case of Cruz, who was born in Canada in 1970, is that his father was an immigrant from Cuba and not a U.S. citizen at the time of young Cruz’s birth, but his mother was born and raised in the United States. The law in effect then, and now, made Ted Cruz a U.S. citizen at birth. Although the drafters of the Constitution did not define what they meant when they required an American president to be a “natural born citizen,” it is generally thought that “citizen by birth” is the best modern-day equivalent. On that basis, Cruz appears entirely eligible — if he ever chooses to pursue the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
He’s a great senator but its way too early to even think about the presidency anyway. I’ll cross the eligibility bridge when I get to it.
Just stop!
Senator Ted Cruz is headed to be the Republican Leader of the US Senate for about 30 years.
Should he lower himself to be POTUS, he would be there for 4 or 8 years.
Do the math!
Let the man do the job at hand!
If Obama was eligible to be POTUS with a US citizen mother and foreign national father and having Indonesian citizenship Cruz is eligible.
HE’s not the one bringing it up all the time....others are....I am sure he’s trying to END the chatter about it with this announcement.
Well, then there is thousands of US citizens around the world who were ‘created’ by tourist and servicemen. Absurd.
The Senate has tried several times to cancel the Constitutionally defined requirement for President, and failed to do it since it violates the Constitutionally defined way to change the Constitution. Ted was not born in the US of A. He is a citizen by his mother’s citizenship (provided she had reached the age of and with so and so many years a citizen herself), but he is not an natural born citizen. McCain was not and of course little barry bastard boy is not either.
Wisdom! So refreshing on these boirther threads ... and yes, I’m a birther too.
Ping
***This says Cruz’s father had not yet become a citizen when he was born in Canada. I had read that he had become one. But this case, from Cruz’s spokesman, is based on the mother being a natural born American citizen - and I believe, at least 18 years of age. All this is saying is that “natural born citizen” means a citizen at birth, as opposed to a citizen by naturalization. It also implies that the problem comes if your birth mother isn’t a citizen, the problem doesn’t come from being born on a soil other than American, and also implies that the father’s citizenship at time of your birth is not controlling...***
(But of course there are those who will dispute this view.)
Yes. But he is a “white” hispanic. Not qualified.
Yes John McCain is a natural born Citizen, so are Cruz, Rubio, and Obama (if he was born in HI).
Just stop!You're wasting your breath.Senator Ted Cruz is headed to be the Republican Leader of the US Senate for about 30 years.
Should he lower himself to be POTUS, he would be there for 4 or 8 years.
Do the math!
Let the man do the job at hand!
I made the same point about Rand Paul....we need conservative Senators to stay around in order to enact change.
But folks around here need to push their flavor-of-the-month for president. It's evidence of how desperate conservatives are for a legitimate candidate to back.
Hopefully, it will work itself out by the mid-terms.
So Winston Churchill could have been our President?
Only by those that wish to subvert the Constitution, and those that can't seem to read plain English.
Yes he is a natural born citizen, IF, by that is meant “a citizen at birth as opposed to becoming a citizen later” and IF being born to an American citizen mother makes you a citizen, and IF being born on another soil is not the controlling factor but the citizenship of your mother is the controlling factor.
The only way he isn’t a natural born citizen is if everything Byron York writes here about what makes a natural born citizen, and what the words “natural born citizen” mean, is wrong.
If York is right, you are wrong.
I’m WAITING to find out. That was the point of his article, to lay claim to that. And Ted Cruz through his spokesman laid claim to it.
And your bombastic conclusions can’t stop me from WAITING, before JUMPING...
Well, if Cruz is a natural born citizen then even if Obama was born in Kenya he would be eligible to be POTUS because his mother was born in the US.
Maybe he was born an American citizen but hes not a NBC and hes not eligible to be POTUS
Cruz has nearly the same status that Obama has...
Obama(if he WAS born in Hawaii) has more...
If not they are the same...
American citizen Mom, non-American Dad, born in another country...
What are we trying to do here ???
Validate Obama ???
Way to go e-GOP...
The Democrats will win in 2014 over this junk...
But he isn't and neither is Cruz.
In the end it won't matter we will get what they want us to have because the Constitution is now just @$$ wipe to these clowns.
“So Winston Churchill could have been our President?”
Yes, his mother was born in the US.
Many people from popular tourist destinations like Cancun and Bangkok are also eligible.
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