Posted on 07/21/2013 5:34:04 PM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Since Canadian born Ted Cruz has emerged on the scene in Washington as a future presidential candidate for 2016, attention has turned to whether he is Constitutionally eligible for Article 2 Section 1, the presidential qualification clause. This is what we know. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Many say that disqualifies him to be eligible for the presidency. Enter former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I came across an interview she did with Fox News's Chris Wallace in February of 2010. During the interview Wallace brought up the fact that since she was born in Canada, she wasn't eligible to be president. Here is the transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-future-gop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
"GRANHOLM: No, I’m totally focused this year on creating every single job I can until the last moment. December 31st at midnight is when I’ll stop. So I have no idea what I’m going to do next, but I’m not going to run for president. I can tell you that.
WALLACE: Yes, that’s true. We should point out Governor Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president.
GRANHOLM: I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship.”
With that said, I went to the biography of Jennifer Granholm and found that she was born to one American citizen and is indeed a dual Citizen who became 'NATURALIZED' as a U.S. Citizen in 1980 at the age of 21. Now this raises a question. How can a naturalized U.S. Citizen become president of the United States?
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Thank you! Period! The end!
Radio Patriot is reporting that one of her parents was an American.
Ancestry.com
http://www.wargs.com/political/granholm.html
Ancestry of Jennifer Granholm
1 Jennifer Granholm, b. Vancouver, B. C., Canada, 5 Feb. 1959, emigrated with her parents to US in 1962, naturalized ... [early 1980s], Governor of Michigan 2003-current
m. ... 23 May 1986
Daniel Mulhern, b. ... , son of ... Mulhern and of ... .
three children (Kathryn, Cecelia, Jack)
PARENTS
2 Victor Ivar Granholm, b. Penny, B. C., ...
m.
3 Shirley Alfreda Dowden, b. ...
TENNESEE NANA FOR PRESIDENT! (not really Nana, but it sounded good)
You haz a smell.
Yeah, rules are for losers!
I don’t see what’s so difficult about republicans nominating a conservative American, but they are in short supply.
The Constitution is CLEAR. Article 2 Section 1 states you have to be a natural born Citizen to be eligible to be president. Cruz has not proven that he is one. To let him slip through the cracks like Obama did can’t be allowed. Granholm was born a dual Citizen like Cruz was. She had to naturalize to become a U.S. Citizen in 1980. She can’t become president as a naturalized Citizen. So if she had to naturalize, Cruz had to at some point. When?
Lets see...non-citizen African father, underage American mother....Born? Kenya? Canada? Hawaii? Adopted by and became an Indonesian? I think you have a bigger target for your questions living in Washington.
Cruz is a Natural-born citizen. This has nothing to do with where you are born. Just like the children of military personnel and ambassadors the nationality of your parents determines your citizenship.
Wasn’t McCain born in south America to two American citizens? Obviously, he was deemed eligible.
Her mother wouldn’t have had to “emigrate” if she were an American. I seen no proof. It also depends on the law at the time of birth. The reason it’s important whether Obama was born in the U.S. is because of the law at the time, his mother was too young to have lived in the U.S. for the time requisite to confer citizenship on him.
If Granholm’s mother was a U.S. citizen, but didn’t meet the criteria, Granholm would have had to be naturalized.
5th Column you are!
I guess you better tell the US State Department. They think otherwise.
US State Department Services Dual Nationality
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html
The concept of dual nationality means that a person is a citizen of two countries at the same time. Each country has its own citizenship laws based on its own policy.Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. For example, a child born in a foreign country to U.S. citizen parents may be both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the country of birth.
A U.S. citizen may acquire foreign citizenship by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. citizen may not lose the citizenship of the country of birth.U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another.
I meant to say Granholm was born in Canada like Cruz was to a American citizen.
Hell I’m a paleo birther from before Obama was elected but the simple fact is that he’s not going anywhere and some of these people seem to have a vested interest in sending birthers off in every remote direction possible.
I’ve even seen declarations that Michele Bachmann is ineligible due to an honorary Swiss citizenship and that’s just plain idiotic.
Give it a rest will ya?
Granholm said quite plainly she has no plans to run for president.
This entire thread is a canard.
Yes he is an American Citizen, just not a natural born Citizen eligible for Article 2 Section 1.
Based on what?
According to the US embassy in Canada, dual citizenship between both countries is legal but not encouraged.
http://canada.usembassy.gov/consular_services/dual-citizenship.html
State Department says born of US parents on foreign soil is a US citizen.
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html
...a child born in a foreign country to U.S. citizen parents may be both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the country of birth.
Naturalized citizens CANNOT become president.
My dad was naturalized before I was born.
He always told me “I can never be president because I was born in the old country, but YOU can be president.”
I was born here, to two citizens; my mom was born here.
Legally, there is substantial room for debate on Cruz’s eligibility. Given that the conservatives most likely to support his politics are also most likely to interpret the eligibility clause narrowly, the questions on his status as a natural born citizen are a serious political issue and not just a legal/constitutional issue.
My vote will be decided based on my interpretation of the Constitution. I don’t consider Cruz eligible, so, even if it’s him or Hillary, I will not vote for Cruz. I’m certainly not alone in that position. Whether 2% of conservatives, or 10%, or 20% agree with me doesn’t matter. In any case it’s enough to throw the election. The GOP would be prudent to choose someone who is unambiguously eligible, such as a former governor born in Sandpoint, Idaho, to two United States citizen parents.
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