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Marco Rubio Laughs off Donald Trump Appearing to Question His Eligibility to Run for President
ABC News ^ | 02/21/2016 | By INES DELACUETARA

Posted on 02/21/2016 10:58:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
I'm gonna spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility

Well don't worry about it Anchor-boy, the rest of us are all over it.

61 posted on 02/21/2016 12:28:18 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Mastador1

“They are American citizens, but you know that.”

Definitely NOT natural born, as I explained using Constitutional concepts and terminology.

“...your juvenile rantings.”

As someone who accused me of stinking up the site, bear witness of my “rantings”.


62 posted on 02/21/2016 12:28:44 PM PST by odawg
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems the Rube forgot to flat out declare he is eligible.
Why is Marco Rubio playin 0bama’s sorry game?


63 posted on 02/21/2016 12:30:11 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: SeekAndFind

So over 90% of Republicans have said basically that they are not going to vote for Rubio?


64 posted on 02/21/2016 12:32:10 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Theodore R.

Thank you, move to the head of the class. It was strictly politics as these things always turn out to be.


65 posted on 02/21/2016 12:35:29 PM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So we're saying that both parents have to be American citizens, in addition to being born on American soil? If that's the definition, then Obama is ineligible to be president.

Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner!

Until and unless courts issue a definitive ruling on what natural born citizen means within the context of the presidency, we have to assume that these guys are eligible to run for president.

Hussein Soetoro was safe because he was a RAT. Rubio, if nominated, would only be safe until the general election. Then the RATs would take him out in court.

66 posted on 02/21/2016 12:36:37 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Bubba_Leroy

In my opinion, neither are eligible. Rubio is a naturalized citizen but not a natural born citizen. There’s a difference.


67 posted on 02/21/2016 12:38:09 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: itsahoot

No whys, ifs, or buts. Blacks were not considered humans in the 1700s, traded around like property until the mid 1800s, and not allowed to vote until the mid 1900s. Those are the facts.

The civil war victory, lead by Republicans, gave them the freedom. Again, a hundred years later, the democrats had to be defeated for them to get their voting rights.


68 posted on 02/21/2016 12:40:45 PM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: JimSEA

Are you against having a natural born citizen as President? Bizarre.


69 posted on 02/21/2016 12:40:58 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did Rubio have to go through the naturalization process to be a US citizen? Or was he born with US citizenship?

Just barely, he's an anchor baby.

He needs more, as he's also a Cuban.(calls himself a Cuban/American)

70 posted on 02/21/2016 12:42:21 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Plummz

Obviously, I think Cruz and Rubio are NBC.


71 posted on 02/21/2016 12:44:41 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: odawg
Two Cuban citizens cannot engender a natural born American citizen.

Just like Andrew Jackson's Irish immigrant parents didn't allow him to be President?

72 posted on 02/21/2016 12:48:39 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Starstruck

“Just like Andrew Jackson’s Irish immigrant parents didn’t allow him to be President?”

Jackson was born in 1767. He was born before the Constitution was written and that generation was grandfathered in.


73 posted on 02/21/2016 12:51:05 PM PST by odawg
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To: Mastador1
They are American citizens

They ARE...but they WERE NOT at the time of his birth. Small detail.

74 posted on 02/21/2016 12:54:21 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: odawg
Jackson was born in 1767. He was born before the Constitution was written and that generation was grandfathered in.

What about Buchanan, Arthur, Wilson and Hoover?

75 posted on 02/21/2016 12:55:50 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Slyfox
You mean the guy who calls others liars, is actually a bonafide liar himself?

And he's a creepy liar! The word that's always come to mind when I think of or see Rubio is, "smarmy".

He outright lied to I.C.E. agents over immigration. He'll be another Obama on closing the border.

76 posted on 02/21/2016 12:56:45 PM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! Trump and Cruz, abolish the GOPe!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I do not think you need a judge to rule on a definition.
“natural born” modifies the word Citizen.
After the American revolution, all inhabitants, be they German or British or French, dropped whatever Citizenship they were born with and became American Citizens.
Going forward, these newly minted US Citizens had babies, who if born on US soil, became natural born Citizens!

....The Declaration also referred to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” as justification for the Americans’ separation from the British monarchy. Most eighteenth-century Americans believed that nature, the entire universe, was God’s creation.[90] Therefore, he was “Nature’s God.” Everything, including man, was part of the “universal order of things”, which began with God and was pervaded and directed by his providence...

By God’s providence, then, the children of US Citizens were themselves natural born US Citizens.

Of course, people from other countries could travel to the US, renounce their birth Citizenship, and apply to the government for US Citizenship


77 posted on 02/21/2016 12:58:44 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: CAluvdubya

Rubio lied bigtime to Phyllis Schlafly to get her support. Ya don’t lie to Phyllis.


78 posted on 02/21/2016 12:59:24 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Starstruck

...During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors...

Jackson was part of the revolution. The fact of Independence allowed Jackson to drop whatever Citizenship he was born with, and claim US Citizenship.

These revolutionary made Citizens were grandfathered and eligible for POTUS


79 posted on 02/21/2016 1:09:52 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler
These revolutionary made Citizens were grandfathered and eligible for POTUS

What about Buchanan, Arthur, Wilson and Hoover?

80 posted on 02/21/2016 1:18:56 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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