Heeeeey...I got a new Chip card and my payment still came out!
Posted on 01/09/2016 11:04:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
-- U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1
It is easy to ignore the often-hateful blatherings of Donald Trump, but his questioning of Ted Cruz' eligibility to be president needs an answer. And that answer is a clear "yes."
Trump knows very well that Cruz is eligible, but in his desperation to stave off a surging Cruz candidacy The Donald will say anything.
Although he was born in Calgary, Canada in 1970, Ted Cruz is considered a "natural born" citizen of the United States because his mother was born in Delaware. His Cuban father was working in the Canadian oil fields when his son was born. Thus, the Texas senator was born a citizen of both the United States and Canada. He always has though of himself -- rightly -- as American, saying he didn't realize he had dual citizenship until it was pointed out by The Dallas Morning News in 2014. At that time, Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship, although he could have kept it without endangering his eligibility to be America's president.
Despite claims by some Trump supporters -- who still are trying to prove that Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii of a Kenyan father and American mother makes him ineligible to be president -- Cruz does not hold a Canadian passport and, apparently, never has.
Two former Justice Department lawyers, in a Harvard Law Review article quoted in USA Today last March, said, "Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Sen, Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a 'natural born citizen' within the meaning of the Constitution,"
Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general in the Obama administration from May 2010 to June 2011, and Paul Clement, solicitor general from 2004 to 2008 in the George W. Bush administration, said, "As Congress has recognized since the Founding, a person born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent is generally a U.S. citizen from birth with no need for naturalization. And the phrase 'natural born citizen' in the Constitution encompasses all such citizens from birth.
"Thus, an individual born to a U.S. citizen parent -- whether in California or Canada or the Canal Zone -- is a U.S. citizen from birth and is fully eligible to serve as president if the people so choose."
Surely Trump knows he is wrong about Cruz' eligibility, so why bring it up. Quite simply, Trump knows his poll numbers are ephemeral, that he has garnered just about all the supporters he is going to get. As Republican voters get serious about the election, they will settle for more serious, far more qualified canidates, including, possibly, Ted Cruz. TheTeflon Don's non-stick surface is beginning to peel.
There are many reasons to vote for Ted Cruz for president, and probably just as many not to. Like all candidates, he asks us to accept him, warts and all.
Whatever you think about Ted Cruz, he is eligible to be president of the United States -- and has been for a decade since he turned 35.
Nope.
Nope.
Heeeeey...I got a new Chip card and my payment still came out!
remember too that George Romney, father of Mitt, was born in Mexico but ran for president.
I donated to Ted (and FR) and today starts prayer and fasting.
God Bless America Again! :)
Fyi, nine presidents not born in the US. I’m sure they understood the Constitution more than birther nuts.
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
Wow. That’s really silly. The Constitution itself quite explicitly grandfathered them in.
In earlier discussions, it was about both. Did Stanley Ann have the necessary years after her 14th birthday to pass on citizenship to her son? There are facts that say he was born under the necessary requirement of 10 years total US residency and 4 years after the age of 14, for his citizen mother. The issue of where he was born would have made him a British citizen if he was born in the British protectorate, Kenya. If he was born in Kenya, his citizenship would have gone to his father, a native of Kenya. In both cases, Zer0 would not be a “natural born citizen.” Hence, the cover ups and false birth certificates. Someday, we will know for sure.
Of course Obama broke that law, but he's a DEM.
EXACTLY SO !
Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general in the Obama administration from May 2010 to June 2011, and Paul Clement, solicitor general from 2004 to 2008 in the George W. Bush administration, said, "As Congress has recognized since the Founding, a person born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent is generally a U.S. citizen from birth with no need for naturalization. And the phrase 'natural born citizen' in the Constitution encompasses all such citizens from birth.
The bolded section is a blatant lie. Through most of American history an individual born in circumstances like Cruz would NOT have been considered a citizen from birth.
And that being the case, the second part simply cannot be true.
If you were made a citizen by statute, you can't have been made a citizen by nature. The two things are mutually exclusive.
Glad this is out in the open and resovled before the elections start! Once again, Thank You Trump!
Ted Cruz will win the nomination and easily beat Hilary Clinton in the general election. He is currently crushing Hillary in head to head polls.
LOL...and he didn’t even start this, he answered a question asked of him by a presstitute.
No he won’t and he won’t beat Hillary.
This commentary—a long read—nails the truth of the matter:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3381827/posts
You may have already found it. However, I thought it was excellent. It took me back to the time I was researching the natural born status of Zer0. That research really educated me to the significance of the discussion about Senator Cruz. I do not think he will endure the coming barrage that will come down over his natural born status. It is written in the Constitution and there has been no amendment changing it.
So you believe a person 35 years old, conceived via IVF between a US citizen mother’s egg and donated sperm by a Danish man, then embryo implanted into the womb of a woman with Pakistani citizenship but then raised by the US citizen mother married to a German citizen in Mongolia is eligible to be the President of The United States?
Dude, maybe decaf is the way you ought to go vis-Ã -vis coffee.
Chuckle!
Trumpet wishful thinking and wet dreams anyone?
There is no “barrage”, there will be no “barrage”, Cruz will smoke Trump and CRUSH Hilary Clinton. Just start getting used to it.
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