THOU WRETCHED CONCERN TROLL!
Posted on 02/24/2015 7:07:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz is getting close to announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. The Texan is spending almost as much time in Iowa and New Hampshire as he does on Fox News; he's hired a staff and collected a long list of fiercely conservative supporters..
There's at least one hitch: Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta. His mother was a U.S. citizen, born in Delaware; his father, a Cuban refugee working in Canada's oil fields. Thanks to his mother, Cruz was a U.S. citizen at birth.
But that doesn't clear up a legal muddle that's as old as the Constitution: Is a U.S. citizen born abroad qualified to serve as president?
I don't agree with Cruz on most issues. He wants to repeal Obamacare, abolish the Internal Revenue Service and pass a constitutional amendment allowing states to outlaw gay marriage, just to take the top of his list. But I still hope he runs — because it's high time we established the right of Canadian-born Americans to serve as president.
Canadian Americans are perhaps our most underappreciated minority. Their contributions to U.S. culture range from hockey to comedy to, well, hockey. It's an impressive list: Wayne Gretzky, William Shatner, Lorne Michaels, Jim Carrey, Pamela Anderson, Alex Trebek. And now Ted Cruz.
At this point I should confess a personal stake: My oldest daughter was born in Toronto. Like Ted Cruz, she inherited U.S. citizenship through one of her parents. But we assured her that she could grow up to be president of the United States. (Proud of her dual citizenship, she says she'd like to serve as prime minister of Canada too.)
Canada is a wonderful country.....
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Hmmm... Yes, when he retreads. We have only to sharpen our claws...
Obviously he will.
And he will gravitate to a Cruz thread immediately.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise .....
Well, at least now you have more time to surf the inter-webs to improve your personality and learn how to play better with others!
If the current muzzie poser can be pResident then so can Mr. Ted Cruz.
HMS Surprise Surprise Surprise!
(sigh!)
My (slightly overattached) girlfriend.
My heartthrob.
She who can stare intently throughout carnal consummation.
(deeper sigh)
......That guy called somebody moronic? LOL, okay.
All your arrogance
are belong to us!
Well done!
If you ain’t full bird by now, I’ma submit a recommendation
that you be advanced from LTC. For outstanding performance.
LOL.
Truth in labeling, I'm a ex Air Force Technical Sargent.
Joined FR while still living in Colorado and selected the screen name "Colorado Freeper" in it's abbreviated form "Col Freeper", to reduce the time entering it to sign in.
Over the years, so many people mistook it for a military Officer's rank that I stopped correcting them about it (most of the time).
But thanks for the kudos anyway.
Ain’t nothing wrong with Tech Sergeants.. my eldest is one. ;-)
Thanks for the ping Sarge.
This fail master was no Jack Aubrey. Must be, um, interesting walking a plank with your ass billowing flames.
I suspect the service people you are referring to are Both US citizens and serving on US( even though temporarily )dedicated soil. Not so with Cruz who had only one parent i.e.. mother while serving in a foreign country (with a non US citizen husband and father of Cruz) which was without any dedication to the US. There are differences. I don’t see that a mother has any priority over a father as far as citizenship is concerned, or visa versa and I believe the Founders were thinking the same way.
Not only is Cruz eligible to serve as President, the whole question has been made moot by Barack Obama’s questionable past and his hidden records - just the same as he has made previous drug use a senseless topic of discussion.
“Ain’t nothing wrong with Tech Sergeants”
Except when they laugh maniacally and cobble together bizarre contraptions with intermittent hand wringing sprinkled with gleeful chuckles.
THOSE TechSars are up to something!
“Why is there a jet powered still in the back of this hanger?”
“What still where?”
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