Posted on 09/02/2013 4:25:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Is he a natural-born citizen or isn’t he? The question has been a nagging part of Barack Obama’s life ever since his first presidential campaign. No amount of birth certificates and sworn statements from state officials in Hawaii, his birthplace, seemed capable of putting the issue to rest. The “birther” movement continues pressing the question even today, five years after Obama’s election to the presidency.
The question nags anew, but this time Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is the focus because he was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. By law, his mother’s U.S. citizenship automatically confers natural citizenship to Cruz, just as — for those who continue to doubt the location of Obama’s birth — the citizenship of Obama’s American mother conferred it to him.
When it became a hot-button issue in 2008, Democrats countered that Obama’s GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, was born to American parents at a U.S. military installation in the Panama Canal Zone. The implication being that if Republicans wanted to play the birther game, Democrats could, too.
This is such a nonissue, regardless of whether the candidate is Republican or Democrat. Nevertheless, narrow-minded individuals, including some prominent personalities such as billionaire former presidential contender Donald Trump, are doggedly trying to concoct controversy and introduce doubt where there should be none.
These men have been natural U.S. citizens from birth and have every right to seek the nation’s highest office. Article II of the Constitution sets out three eligibility requirements to be president: that the person be at least 35 years old, a resident within the United States for 14 years and a “natural-born citizen.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Thank you!
Well talk about qualifications. He can be a US President and a Canadian Parliamentarian at the same time.
Cruz is the only prospective candidate worth a damn other than Scott Walker, who fails to excite anyone, unfortunately.
Cruz is our best bet to win. Walker would be a good VP choice.
i think we are going to insist that you do some phoning into Dubuque this time. A road trip would work, too.
This editorial comes to the correct conclusion regarding eligibility. What may surprise some people is that Cruz's eligibility will be supported by most law professors and mainstream experts. There will be a few leftwing crackpots who will scream foul, but there will not be enough of them to permit the MSM to take them seriously. The MSM will support Cruz's eligibility. They will still oppose his candidacy, of course, but not based on eligibility issues.
Ted Cruz - 2016
Check the dates. Read the comments. Strange...
Thanks for the link anyway.
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I will stand by my own evaluation of POTUSA eligibility taking into consideration others comments and my own readings as to the issue which includes writings by Founders in establishing the the USA. I have had years of working with and participating in writing laws from local to Federal levels. I have learned to look at nuances of discussions including personal opinions before forming an opinion of my own or taking a stand. I maintain that the time I spent overseas in WWII and my brother’s death on Okinawa entitles me to act according to my conscience as to what I believe the Founders expressed as to all aspects of Their and my Constitution. I do not want that Constitution mangled or distorted or circumvented based on the acts and results of Obama and his enablers. I can see and realize for myself the outrage of persons who want Obama and his enablers of any kind to be removed from any influence as to the USA. However, I do not understand that such a position as mine seems to be heresy; but I will never go against my judgement.
I-o-wa? Is that one of those cow states on the way to California? ;D
cannot believe ye have never been. Just 3 hours west of CHI-Town. A nice river to look at too.
Nope never did, I went to Minneapolis but we drove through Wisconsin rather than Iowa, saves an hour.
Maybe the Iowa Cubs will be good next year. I just looked at the AAA Standings, Omaha won that division with a record of 70-74
i been all over the midwest in 1984
Chicago for 1 day and night on the town
SO ILL, Carbondale for a few weeks.
Cedar Rapids, IA ... a month, Minneapolis for a day
some miltary facility near East St Louis
Bedford, IN
Fort Campbell, KY/TN
Offut near Omaha
the Air Force base in THE U.P., Michigan
Charleston, WVA for a day
never been west of Cleveland or south of DC since ‘85, except one train ride to northern Alabama in ‘93. I was on Amtrak coming thru the tunnel into NYC on the day of the first WTC bombing. I think Amtrak goes right under the WTC.
If ya drive thru Indianapolis once, that is enough for a lifetime. But I liked it.
“they all knew that 2008 was a coup”
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At the time I called it a bloodless coup, it is more and more obvious now that it was indeed a coup, bloodless no longer seems accurate.
2. If you are going to send me links, why didn't you look it up yourself? You think my name is "Google?"
You come across as a disagreeable individual picking a fight.
Get a life!
Didn’t realize you were so brittle.
Please accept my apology for pushing you over the edge.
No I didn’t think your name was Google. It didn’t seem unreasonable for me to ask you to provide a source, since you had seen it and I hadn’t.
As for me getting a life, right back at you.
If you are this close to going postal all the time, you have my deepest sympathy.
That’s my senator, baby! Cruz kicks butt.
Exactly!
I was amazed that you had missed all the talk about Cruz renouncing his Canadian citizenship since it was all over the news.
That's all.
Most of the time for the most part, a candidate for POTUS is at least marginally honorable enough to not require a conflict on their NBC eligibility.
Nobama was never confronted, prior to being elected because blacks and liberals thought it was “their turin” and none of them cared if he was half Stalin.
Once sworn in, its rightfully a bitch to get them unsworn and they are legally POTUS short of impeachment.
Heh! I couldn't resist.
(My Christmas lights come down every year on New Year's Eve.)Hey, I'm a redneck woman
And I ain't no high class broad
I'm just a product of my raising
And I say, 'hey y'all' and 'yee-haw'
And I keep my Christmas lights on
On my front porch all year long
And I know all the words to every ol' Bocephus song
So here's to all my sisters out there keeping it country
Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah
Hell yeah, hell yeah
Hell yeah
I said hell yeah!
~Chorus, Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson
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