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I still don’t think he should be qualified for Presidency. I really wish the rule was both parents MUST be born in the United States and the individual must be born in the United States. None of this naturalization business. We have 300+ million people in the United States and have only had 45 people as President and we can’t have strict rules for being President? I would not even mind having the Grandparents be ONLY born in the United States, but in this liberal world that would NEVER pass.

The big difference between Soetoro and Cruz is that Cruz is indubitably a citizen, while Soetoro is very likely an illegal alien.
13 posted on August 19, 2013 9:37:27 PM EDT by Arthur McGowan

In reality, of course, the framers of the Constitution had no way of doing what they wanted to do = which was to assure that John Adam’s plea be fulfilled:
"I pray to heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.”
-- John Adams, Second President of the United States, Letter to Abigail, November 2, 1800, on moving into the White House
The requirement for the PotUS be a “natural born citizen” was the best they could do.
If Obama, who spent his childhood outside the US and not because his parents were in service to the US but because his mother married a Muslim, is actually “a natural born citizen,” that is a technicality.
And if Ted Cruz, who spent his childhood in a nominally Christian house briefly in Canada and maturing in the US, with a father who voluntarily became an American citizen, is not “a natural born citizen,” that too is a technicality.

Cruz was born in Canada of a Cuban citizen father and a US mother. The parents did not come directly to the USA from Canada after the fathers Canada business. The father was at one time associated with the Cuban government i.e. Castro until he wised up and separated from the Cuban government. For all the apparent empathy that son Cruz has for the USA, and I believe it is sincere, he is not a ‘natural born citizen’ as is the case with many of us in my generation that fought in WWII and died like my brother. Cruz too can be a fighter for the Founder’s USA.

And if Ted Cruz, who spent his childhood in a nominally Christian house briefly in Canada and maturing in the US, with a father who voluntarily became an American citizen, is not “a natural born citizen,” that too is a technicality.

Yes, it is a technicality, and that is why i'm willing to ignore it for Cruz. Cruz is more American than is Obama, that's for sure.