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Lawyers say Canadian-born Cruz eligible to run for president

Good example of my point. Obama, an unqualified rank amateur wins. But Ted Cruz, a brilliant lawyer who is a magnitude of intelligence above Obama, you consider to have no chance. Cruz supports the Constitution, Obama does not. And that's the problem, we elected the idiot.

He says sentences you agree with and throws in the word freedom.

That doesn't make him any better than Obama.
 
Ok, so you're saying that regardless where a president is born, as long as one parent is a US citizen, then the child can be a president.


No.

Where do you get that idea from?
 
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Hillary is probably too busy right now trying to climb out of this hole she dug for herself to worry about Ted Cruz.






Tell us all about it after she gets elected next year. :roll:
 
Good example of my point. Obama, an unqualified rank amateur wins. But Ted Cruz, a brilliant lawyer who is a magnitude of intelligence above Obama, you consider to have no chance. Cruz supports the Constitution, Obama does not. And that's the problem, we elected the idiot.

Briiliant? Seriously? LMAO
 
He was born in the Canal Zone, which is (or at least was) controlled by the United States.
No, he was not born in the area under our control.
 
Good example of my point. Obama, an unqualified rank amateur wins. But Ted Cruz, a brilliant lawyer who is a magnitude of intelligence above Obama, you consider to have no chance. Cruz supports the Constitution, Obama does not. And that's the problem, we elected the idiot.

:lamo
 
Racist much?

It may come as a surprise to you, but obama isn't black.

It probably comes as a much bigger surprise to you, but he is.

I know its hard to deal with the fact that the US popularly elected a black president, twice. Just 2 1/2 years or so it will all be over and then we get to talk about America's first elected woman president.
 
It probably comes as a much bigger surprise to you, but he is.

I know its hard to deal with the fact that the US popularly elected a black president, twice. Just 2 1/2 years or so it will all be over and then we get to talk about America's first elected woman president.

I didn't know Sarah was running
 
Briiliant? Seriously? LMAO

I like all the hateful responses, with absolutely nothing to back them up. We have years of Obama abusing us, the Constitution and just being plain stupid that makes it clear where he is on the spectrum.
 
I didn't know Hawaii was in a state of rebellion in 1961. Do go on...
Why do you continually focus on that which was not said.

That is very odd behavior.
 
He says sentences you agree with and throws in the word freedom.

That doesn't make him any better than Obama.

At least he is a person that defends our personal freedoms and the Constitution. I wonder if Obama has ever said anything supporting individual freedoms.
 
At least he is a person that defends our personal freedoms and the Constitution.

Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, return to our founding values, respect the constitution, freedom, freedom, freedom.

That's the gist of his speeches, doesn't mean he'll actually do it and doesn't mean he does it now.

His opposition to Net Neutrality speaks volumes about where his allegiances lie... and they're not to average folk I can tell you.

His dad is even worse, I've watched his dad publicly mock evolution and tell the most heinous lies about gays... says volumes about how Ted must have been raised.
 
His opposition to Net Neutrality speaks volumes about where his allegiances lie... and they're not to average folk I can tell you.
:doh
He wasn't opposed to actual neutrality which we already had. He was opposed to the FCC changing it's classification to a Title II Utility.
There is a big difference.
 
What do you base that on? I've heard him speak on the subject, he is, without a doubt, very knowledgeable. I believe he's argued cases in front of the Supreme Court.

I've heard his speak as well. THAT is what I base it on. He doesn't have a clue what the Constitution is about. If he did, he wouldn't take the wacko position he does on so many things. just because you may have argued a case before the Supreme Court does not make one a Constitutional scholar.
 
I do think that McCain was eligible. I think Cruz is too. So am I.


Cruz should make it his campaign slogan. "Ted Cruz - Legally eligible for the Presidency."

they are both eligible. But I wouldn't vote for them. And since they both signed that stupid letter to Iran, neither of them should win.
 
I've heard his speak as well. THAT is what I base it on. He doesn't have a clue what the Constitution is about. If he did, he wouldn't take the wacko position he does on so many things. just because you may have argued a case before the Supreme Court does not make one a Constitutional scholar.

Give some examples, because I can't imagine how you could reach such a conclusion with an objective mind.
 
It was a military base, and definitely under the control of the government.
Not the hospital.

Not that any of that matters one bit.
He was not born a Citizen let alone a natural born Citizen.
A law (8 U.S.C. § 1403) was later passed granting those born there Citizenship. You know why?
Because they weren't born Citizens.
 
Lawyers say Canadian-born Cruz eligible to run for president | Fox News

"While questions about Canadian-born Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president haven’t drawn much attention, two former Justice Department lawyers have weighed in with a bipartisan verdict: Cruz, they say, is eligible to run for the White House. Neal Katyal, acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, and Paul Clemente, solicitor general in President George W. Bush’s administration, got out in front of the issue in a Harvard Law Review article. “There is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a ‘natural born Citizen’ within the meaning of the Constitution,” they wrote."

"The law review article, “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen”, asserts that the interpretation of the term was settled in Cruz’s favor as early as the 1700’s. The lawyers wrote that the Supreme Court has long used British common law and enactments of the First Congress for guidance on defining a “natural born citizen.” “Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase ‘natural born Citizen’ includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent,” they wrote. They concluded someone like Cruz had “no need to go through naturalization proceedings,” making him eligible. Cruz is still weighing a presidential run.

"Last month, Cruz addressed the citizenship issue during a question-and-answer session with moderator Sean Hannity, of Fox News, at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I was born in Calgary. My mother was an American citizen by birth,” Cruz said. “Under federal law, that made me an American citizen by birth. The Constitution requires that you be a natural-born citizen.”


Why was Obama given so much flack about this very thing? His mother was natural born as well. I'm not really understanding this. IMO, He wasn't born here naturally, he should not be allowed to run. Where his mom was born really shouldn't count. Where he was should.

This is going to be interesting indeed considering all the "natural-born citizen" flack President Obama received from the Right. I can see a rehash of all those Obama/natural-born citizen debate threads being quoted now!

To the OP, I find it interesting that the two attorney's glossed over one very crucial component of the Naturalization Act of 1790, which I have to assume is the 1700 law they're referring to since it remains the only federal Act dealing with U.S. citizenship that uses and, thus, defines the term "natural-born", towit: "...the right of citizenship did 'not descend to persons whose fathers have never been a resident in the United States'".

Of course, this little tidbit hardly matters today since our INA laws have changed over the centuries ultimately to cover both children born to the soil and those born abroad to at least one U.S. citizen parent be it the mother or the father. However, since Ted Cruz was born in Canada, the issue of his dual-citizenship likely would have remained an issue...that is until he renounced his Canadian citizenship sometime last year (I believe). Nonetheless, it's going to be interesting to see how those Republicans who beat liberals/defenders of Pres. Obama's natural-born status explain Ted Cruz' natural-born status when it's very clear that he was born abroad (albeit to a U.S. citizen mother). I guarantee you that any defense they use will likely be the same defense used to prove Pres. Obama's natural-born citizenship status and IMO his was much more definitive than Ted Cruz'.
 
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Racist much?

It may come as a surprise to you, but obama isn't black.

Of course--he's hAlfrican American--as the Godfather of the GOP Limpballs has told America many times .
 
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