If Rubio was born in Florida, why is he not a natural born citizen?
because his parents weren’t citizens at the time of his birth. obama’s weren’t either, which is why they had to run him against mccain who also has a cloud over his constitutional qualifications.
Because according to Article II's most usual historical interpretation, in order to be a "Natural Born Citizen," both one's parents have to be citizens at the time of the candidate's birth.
If this interpretation of the Constitution has been incorrect, it is up to the courts to tell us so, or the Congress may amend the Constitution to make it so. It cannot be settled in freeper dialogs.
BTW, Reich is a hardened Democrat Partisan Worker. It just may be that he has been assigned the task of deflecting Obama's issues with eligibility. That is, the Democrat Party's wish to make Obama the precedent for equating "Native Born," with "Natural Born." (In Obama's case he has been unable to definitively prove that he is "Native Born," and of course, cannot possibly demonstrate that both his claimed parents were citizens at the time of his birth.)
The Team Obama PR effort has been in full swing since 2006 and has actually worked quite well for them so far. They have been able to re-direct public attention to the alleged place of birth, rather than the circumstances that govern constitutional eligibility.
because there is a difference between citizen and NBC.
Because both his parents were not US citizens at the time of his birth.
Weren’t his parents born elswhere? (not citizens at the time of his birth - exact same situation as Obama, if Obama had not been born in Kenya)
As I understand Natural Born citizen, BOTH parents must be citizens of the USA when the child is born.
I am pretty sure his parents were Cuban refugees, and were not yet citizens when Marco was born.
Just being born in the USA isn’t enough. There is a ‘part 2’ which is the citizenship of the parents.
That ‘part 2’ was enough to eliminate Barry the Imposter.
The DNC didn’t do it’s due dilligence. Daddy was NOT a USA citizen. Daddy was a student from Kenya here on a scholarship.