No we cannot cut it out. You can join the crowd “looting the store”, justifying it in your eyes that everyone is doing it, yet it will not make it right.
1. Naturalization law from 1790 was amended in 1795, the only change was elimination of the clause allowing people like Ted Cruz to be considered as natural born citizens.
2. The only SCOTUS case that mentioned NBC phrase is
Minor vs Happerset:
“…The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first…”
The NBC phrase was included into Constitution to ensure that people with foreign allegiance at birth are NOT allowed as commander-in-chief of US military.
The only definition that makes sense is the one where there is no doubt that child has one and only one natural allegiance at birth to USA: born in the country of citizen parents.
This is a simple logic. Lawyers use fancy language to obfuscate things from regular folks.
3. Mark Levin may rot in Hell for his role in attacking “birthers”. It is one thing to have a difference of opinion; he chose to use vicious language against people questioning Obama’s eligibility.
Bingo again!