Those Damn Birthers
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My statement? Yes.
Obama's presidency? No. But most of what goes on in DC isn't in harmony with the constitution.
Senators and reps are only required to be citizens. The presidency was given a higher hurdle. It required a natural-born citizen which means that both parents must be born in america. We're making up the rules as we go along.
Who knows? Maybe people will decide that Clinton can run for a 3rd term.
First of all, this birther shit came outta Hillary's campaign.
Secondly, my source is the constitution.
Shows how much that ghetto education is worth.
source: http://community.myvoa.com/_The-Sev...-a-Foreign-Born-Parent/blog/137360/45137.html
The Seventh U.S. President with a Foreign-Bo<WBR>rn Parent
With Barack Obama's election, immigrant parents from all over the world can now honestly tell their American-b<WBR>orn children that they, too, can dream of one day becoming president.<WBR> It's a cultural as much as as a racial barrier that's fallen: As the son of a Kenyan man, Barack Obama will be the first U.S. president with a parent born outside the British Isles or Canada.
Only six other U.S. presidents<WBR> had a foreign-bo<WBR>rn parent. Mr. Obama will be the first in nearly ninety years, since President Herbert Hoover was inaugurate<WBR>d in 1929.
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837<WBR>) is the only president born of two immigrants<WBR>, both Irish. Presidents<WBR> with one immigrant parent are Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809<WBR>), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861<WBR>) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885<WBR>), both of whom had Irish fathers, and Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921<WBR>) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933<WBR>), whose mothers were born respective<WBR>ly in England and Canada.
Yeah. As if they taught the constitution in the ghetto.
I never said that they were eligible.
They said is your source? Mostly those who haven't accepted him still push this. It took me a while but it is what it is. Millions are spent on information. Trust me something would have popped up by now. Kinda weird all that came out of the Clinton's camp though.
Also, the constitution only requires one to be born in the US to constitute citizenship, it doesn't reference the homeland of the parents. Which is why we have a problem with illegal aliens(anchor babies).
So since this is established history, is your statement based on your right/conservative opinion or is it based on your knowledge or lack their of the US Constitution?
Id bet youd put a vote in for hitler....
the bottom line President Obama is American and he happens to be our first SunBlessed aka African American President on record.
soooo what you think should or shouldnt be is purely hypothetical and personal.
What do you think of Michelle running in 2016
u birther types will have to find something else to micro manage and nitpick
An Orange County, California Republican Central Committee member who
sent out an email with a picture of President Barack Obama's face on the
body of a baby chimpanzee apologized today and said she was an
"imperfect Christian."
<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"Now you know why no birth certificate."</span>
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I really wish obama would end this shit already.
Yeah, just like I'm sure white people long ago wished we would have
just turned white, shut the fuck up, or have gone to Liberia, already.
just turned white, shut the fuck up, or have gone to Liberia, already.
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End what? They never question white mens credentials. They weren't worried when he was a senator.
Fuck them and all you coons that believe a black man "owes" whitey an explanation.
It’s NOT about the “birth certificate”.
It’s about pure unadulterated racism.
“White Supremacy” !!!!!
The ‘white mind’ has been conditioned in AmeriKKKa to believe that a ‘good-ol’ high school dropout, white-boy country bumpkin, plucking cow chips from his boot soles is more suited to be President of the United States than Barack Hussein Obama.
In 2008 Obama received 43% of the white vote. Obama got the highest percentage of white votes--43%--of any Democrat candidate since Bill Clinton managed to get 44% in 1996. John Kerry (2004) and Al Gore (2000) managed just 41% and 42% respectively.
RepubliKlans were stunned. Obama, a Black candidate with the ‘scary’ sounding name got a greater percentage of the white vote than white guys Gore & Kerry.
What to do????
RepubliKlans only play was to double-down on racism ; constantly try to delegitimize his presidency.
The RepubliKlans have reasserted their ‘southern strategy’ with an intensity not seen since the hate from the southern slave states projected against Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 election cycle.
The United States is now (2011) in a ‘civil-cold-war’. The outcome will determine what type of country the US is in the near future.
Civilization or Barbarism?
I'm not racist chimp email sender says
Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail
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Is Trump playing us for suckers?
c a b l e n e w s n e t w o r k
By Christopher Byron
Special to CNN
April 19, 2011
The disappointing thing about most phonies is that they don't have staying
power. Once they get caught, they give it up and skulk off into the night,
never to be heard from again. Think of Rosie Ruiz, say, who pretended to
win the Boston Marathon by sneaking out of a crowd of bystanders ahead
of everybody in the last half-mile of the race.
That's why I like Donald Trump so much. When it comes to pretending to
run marathons, he never quits.
For more than 20 years he's been periodically popping out of the bushes
to declare that he "might" be running for president of the United States,
or that he's "considering" it, or even considering it "very seriously," or (his
ultimate statement of intent) really thinking about it "more seriously than
ever before."
And wouldn't you know it, something always seems to come up at the last
minute to change his mind, and he slips back into the bushes, having reaped
an incalculable harvest of free publicity as the self-appointed loudmouth of
the campaign, leaving behind nothing but the fading smile of the Cheshire
Cat -- and of course those lingering questions about why his hair looks so
weird.
Now, as the whole world knows, he's at it again, claiming to be "really
serious" about "considering" whether to run for president, and planning
to announce his decision sometime soon, like, say, in June.
In the Short Attention Span Theater of American public life, people don't
seem to remember that he's said it all before. It was just about a decade
ago, in fact, that I interviewed Trump about his latest stated plan
to "consider" running for president, and memorialized his malarkey in a cover
story for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s magazine, George.
Readers of that article will learn that Trump has been playacting as a
presidential contender for roughly the last 25 years, and behind each
faux candidacy has been his desire to promote a specific moneymaking
opportunity for himself.
In 1987 Trump published a self-celebration entitled "Trump, The Art Of The
Deal," and when he hired Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone Jr. to begin
floating his name as a possible 1988 presidential contender, the book surged
instantly to the top of the best-seller lists.
Thirteen years later, he spotted an opportunity for himself to claim to be
interested in running for president on the so-called Reform Party ticket -- a
short-lived venture launched and then abandoned by Texas business biggie,
H. Ross Perot. Why? As he put it to an editor at George, "It's a great way to
raise the rents."
What's his angle this time around? My own best guess is to boost the ratings
of his reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice," which airs on NBC. The show
pays Trump a reported $3 million per episode. MSNBC talk-show host and
Trump critic Lawrence O'Donnell is probably exaggerating when he says the
show may be the only paying job Trump actually has.
But the truth is, no one is sure what Trump is worth. Forbes magazine puts
his current net worth at somewhere around $2.7 billion; a 2005 report from
Deutsche Bank put the number at $788 million.
Nor does there seem to be much consistency to his assertion that he's "very
conservative" politically. In his pseudo-run for the presidency in 2000, he
endorsed universal health care and a 14.25% one-time tax on estates over
$10 million to bolster Social Security and Medicare -- two positions that any
progressive liberal would support. Today he's against universal health care
(at least as enacted by President Obama) and opposes gay marriage, gun
control, and abortion.
Bottom line: Put up or shut up time for Trump may now be at hand. Trump
reportedly claims to be holding off on a renewal with NBC for his TV show,
and driving up his ratings with his pretend-presidential bid may be his way
to gain the upper hand in any talks.
But if the strategy doesn't work, and NBC doesn't give him the deal he
wants, his bluff will be called. Then he'll have no choice but to declare his
candidacy and file a full financial disclosure statement, which is required of
all candidates -- a document that could wind up making him the
laughingstock of the nation, and at a minimum would have hundreds of
reporters combing through it, line by line, for months and even years on end
to find out just how much Mister Big Stuff is really worth.
My bet is that, faced with all that, he'll finally take the Rosie Ruiz escape
hatch and stop pretending to run in marathons he knows he can't win.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Christopher
Byron.
Editor's note: Christopher Byron is a prize-winning investigative
journalist and New York Times best-selling book author. He has been a
regular guest commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and all three
broadcast networks. He is completing his sixth book, "Mind Drugs, Inc.,
How Big Pharma and Modern Psychiatry Have Corrupted Washington and
Destroyed Mental Health in America." Contact Byron at cmbyron@optonline.net
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/byron.trump.president/index.html
The birther movement: immune to facts?
c a b l e n e w s n e t w o r k
By Alan Silverleib
April 28, 2011
(CNN) -- Can the "birthers" ever be convinced that Barack Obama was born in America and is eligible to serve as president?
Probably not, according to one prominent psychology professor and other political observers.
Since Obama launched his bid for the White House, a sizable minority of Americans has expressed strong doubts about whether he was actually born in the United States. Over the past few years, the allegation that he was born overseas -- in Kenya or perhaps Indonesia -- has taken on a life of its own, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed that roughly 25% of Americans -- including over four in 10 Republicans -- believe Obama was definitely or probably not born in the United States.
- Earlier this week, CNN released the results of its own investigation into the controversy. Documents and statements from numerous public officials and childhood friends made clear that the president was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
- On Wednesday, Obama himself addressed the issue, pleading for an end to the distractions of "sideshows" and "carnival barkers."
The president yielded to demands from his critics that he release his original long-form birth certificate, filing a special legal request with Hawaiian authorities to release a document that is no longer used for official purposes and ordinarily remains buried in the basement archives of the state health department.
Obama's 2008 release of the more common "live birth certification" -- a short computer-generated form typically used for documentation purposes -- did little to silence the chorus of skeptics.
It Remains to be Seen; WND & Others
It remains to be seen whether Wednesday's release will be received any differently. But the early reaction wasn't exactly positive.
One of the main websites pushing the birther claims -- birthers.org -- declared that "forgery or not, now we can debate the true meaning of a natural born citizen."
The U.S. Constitution says only "natural born" citizens can become president -- a vague clause that some members of the birther movement contend disqualifies Obama if he was born outside the United States.
Joseph Farah, editor-in-chief of the conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, said that "we know (Obama's) father was a Kenyan citizen, and that he would therefore confer Kenyan or U.K. citizenship on his son, which would at best make him a dual citizen."
Dual citizenship, Farah asserted, "is not what the Founders had in mind when they coined the phrase 'natural born citizen.'"
Sharon Guthrie, the legislative director for a Texas state representative backing a bill requiring proof of citizenship for presidential ballot access, told the website Slate.com that she was still suspicious.
"What they produced today ... still says certificate of live birth across the top," she said. "We want to see a 'birth certificate.' ... The one that we have that says 'birth certificate' is from Mombassa, Kenya, with his footprint on it. He has still not produced an American birth certificate."
Why the unrelenting skepticism?
Emory University's Drew Westen, author of the "The Political Brain" and an informal advisor to Obama's 2008 campaign, chalked up much of it to Obama's reluctance to immediately rebut the charge more quickly in the presidential race.
"The right wing was attempting to make him 'one of them' as opposed to 'one of us,'" he claimed.
Westen, a professor of psychology and psychiatry, cited what psychologists call the "sleeper effect."
"If you present negative information about someone and it initially goes unchallenged, you might alter some people's conscious beliefs by challenging it later," he asserted. "But they are left with a negative gut-level feeling that doesn't go away."
"Political feelings, once they are strongly held, tend to be resistant to facts. It's just the result of the way our brains work," he said.
Westen mentioned the so-called "Swift Boat" attacks against Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004, which called into question the senator's service in Vietnam.
Kerry "allowed his honor to be challenged and didn't respond for weeks," Westen said. "When finally he did respond and had definitive evidence that the attacks were untrue, it was too late. People's feelings towards him had already changed. They wouldn't change back by that point."
Along similar lines, Westen told CNN that if staunch Democrats or Republicans are presented with clear evidence of wrongdoing on the part of their party's nominee shortly before an election, they'll come up with "every kind of rationalization to explain it away."
"We fight off information that makes us feel bad and gravitate toward information that makes us comfortable," he said.
Westen also brought up the explosive issue of race, one of the biggest political lightning rods in U.S. history. He insisted the birther movement never would have taken hold with a white president.
It's not fair to call a large segment of today's electorate "1950s-style racists," he said. But some people are "unconsciously prejudiced in a way that predisposes them to not believing that a black man with a funny name could have really been legitimately elected president of the United States."
But Bill Mayer, a Northeastern University political scientist, took issue with the notion of race as the critical component of the birther movement.
"The fact that Obama is black may affect the form of the conspiracy, but probably not the fact that there is a following for this rumor," he told CNN. "Conspiracy beliefs have a long history in American politics."
Mayer cited a range of political conspiracy theories, including claims regarding the Kennedy assassination, involvement on the part of the Clintons in alleged murders, and George W. Bush's supposed knowledge of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley noted that, back in the 19th century, questions were raised over the American roots of Andrew Jackson and Chester Arthur.
But it was "nothing like this," he told CNN. "We are now in the age of electronic journalism. ... This has become a ghastly scenario (over) the last month."
Mayer suggested that Obama's release of the long-form birth certificate will "further marginalize those who insist (the matter of his birth) is an open question." Still, he added, "I don't understand why the White House took so long" to put out the document.
Just how long will the controversy drag on? Westen claimed the birther issue will continue to be political fodder until a critical mass of Republican leaders decide it's making the GOP look "foolish" and hurting the party among independent voters.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, released a statement Wednesday claiming that the controversy "has long been a settled issue."
History suggests otherwise.
CNN's Brian Todd and Shannon Travis contributed to this report
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/27/birthers.evidence/
It’s NOT about the “birth certificate”.
It’s about pure unadulterated racism.
“White Supremacy” !!!!!
Maybe this guy should have been on that cover, as well . . .
Trump returns to the birther issue
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The businessman and reality show star is still stirring up controversy, insisting that he’s just sure if President Barack Obama was born in America. The Obama campaign has released an ad calling on Mitt Romney to repudiate Trump’s remarks. USA Today's Susan Page and Roll Call's Editor David Drucker, with The New York Times’ Peter Baker discuss.
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Long after the controversy over President Obama’s birthplace seemed settled, some leading Republican congressional candidates have brought new attention to the issue as they seek advantages in hard-fought primary races:
- Richard Hudson, considered a leading Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic U.S Rep. Larry Kissell in North Carolina's 8th Congressional District, told a Tea Party group in Rowan County recently that “there’s no question President Obama is hiding something on his citizenship.”
- Dr. John Whitley, one of Richard Hudson’s opponents in Tuesday’s primary, declared Obama’s birth certificate a “poorly reproduced forgery” after comparing it to the Hawaiian birth certificate of one of his campaign workers.
“There is a tremendous amount of smoke here,” Whitley said. “In fact, it’s called a smoke screen.”
- Jim Pendergraph, Mecklenburg County Commissioner and one of 10 GOP candidates in Tuesday’s primary in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, said this week that he’s not convinced Obama was born in the United States.
- Richard Lynch of Belmont, North Carolina, Pendergraph is another 9th District candidate questioning Obama’s birthplace. Lynch said, “While I want to believe that Mr. Obama is a natural-born citizen, I must admit that the evidence leaves me with doubt.”
- Ilario Pantano, who is in a GOP battle with Rouzer for the right to run against Democrat U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, said he still has “real questions.” But Pantano said he’ll focus on the president’s failed policies. “The way I see this is whether he was born on the moon or Nicaragua or Honolulu, the bottom line is he has to be defeated in November,” he said.
Ferrel Guillory, a political analyst at UNC Chapel Hill, said <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">some Republican critics of Obama aren’t concerned with facts</span>. He said the candidates feel raising the birther issue will help them connect with deeply conservative Republicans who dislike Obama.
<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Race may be a factor</span>, he said.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/07/147952/nc-gop-candidates-continue-to.html#storylink=cpy
Michigan Senate Candidate Hoekstra:
Create A National Birther Office
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Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), who is running for Senate to take on Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, told a tea party town hall last month that the federal government should establish an official committee to review presidential candidates’ birth certificates.
The full-length video of the Q&A was posted online four weeks ago by the Lapeer County Tea Party Patriots. An excerpt, in which Hoekstra is asked about Obama’s birth certificate, has been posted online by the Michigan Democrats, injecting Hoekstra into a recent resurgence in birther theories espoused by Donald Trump, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO). A man in the audience complained to Hoekstra about President Obama’s birth certificate, “It’s on the computer, it’s everywhere, you hear people talking about it,” but nobody is doing anything about it, and he wanted Hoekstra’s thoughts on the matter.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said Hoekstra’s comments demonstrated he was “outside the mainstream.”
“You can’t get much further outside the mainstream than calling for the creation of a birther office staffed by the CIA and FBI,” Brewer told the Grand Rapids Press. “Our leaders should be focused on creating jobs, not on creating a new federal bureaucracy to comb through birth certificates. Hoekstra’s radical plan to appoint a Birther Czar <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">shows just how far he’ll go to win the support of Tea Party radicals like Donald Trump.”</span>
The full-length video of the Q&A was posted online four weeks ago by the Lapeer County Tea Party Patriots. An excerpt, in which Hoekstra is asked about Obama’s birth certificate, has been posted online by the Michigan Democrats, injecting Hoekstra into a recent resurgence in birther theories espoused by Donald Trump, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO). A man in the audience complained to Hoekstra about President Obama’s birth certificate, “It’s on the computer, it’s everywhere, you hear people talking about it,” but nobody is doing anything about it, and he wanted Hoekstra’s thoughts on the matter.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said Hoekstra’s comments demonstrated he was “outside the mainstream.”
“You can’t get much further outside the mainstream than calling for the creation of a birther office staffed by the CIA and FBI,” Brewer told the Grand Rapids Press. “Our leaders should be focused on creating jobs, not on creating a new federal bureaucracy to comb through birth certificates. Hoekstra’s radical plan to appoint a Birther Czar <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">shows just how far he’ll go to win the support of Tea Party radicals like Donald Trump.”</span>
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Blitzer: "Give me a name."
Trump: "I don't give names."
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I think his mamma was from Kansas...and her family tree extends all the way back to several people who signed the DOI or the Constitution, I can't remember.
She apparently had no love for white men...so an African married her followed by an Indonesian Muslim.
So, no matter where he was born, he's an American citizen. Period. Trump needs to get a haircut & needs to stfu.
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They Won't Quit
House GOPer Won't Push Back on Birther
Calling Obama "Communist Despot"
Calling Obama "Communist Despot"
Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is no John McCain.
At a town hall forum in her district on Monday that was sponsored by a local tea party group, Roby was asked by an attendee what she would do to counter the supposed abuses of President Barack Obama, whom the man described as ineligible for office, a communist, and a tyrant. Here's how the fellow put it: "What I need from you is to know what you can do, you and your fellow non-communist colleagues in the lower House, what you can do to stop these communist tyrannical executive orders laid down by this foreign-born, America-hating communist despot?"
After the room erupted in laughter and supportive applause, Roby responded with a smile: "Thank you for your question—he said it loud enough that you all heard it." Roby did not push back on the questioner's claims. Instead, she validated his fears. "Look I can't emphasize the oversight part of my job enough," she said. "And I think that that gets lost in what we do every day, because that's exactly what we're doing—we're chasing down these executive orders, we're chasing down these rules that are promulgated, that are backdoor legislation, whether it's the EPA, the IRS, go down the list."
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At a town hall forum in her district on Monday that was sponsored by a local tea party group, Roby was asked by an attendee what she would do to counter the supposed abuses of President Barack Obama, whom the man described as ineligible for office, a communist, and a tyrant. Here's how the fellow put it: "What I need from you is to know what you can do, you and your fellow non-communist colleagues in the lower House, what you can do to stop these communist tyrannical executive orders laid down by this foreign-born, America-hating communist despot?"
After the room erupted in laughter and supportive applause, Roby responded with a smile: "Thank you for your question—he said it loud enough that you all heard it." Roby did not push back on the questioner's claims. Instead, she validated his fears. "Look I can't emphasize the oversight part of my job enough," she said. "And I think that that gets lost in what we do every day, because that's exactly what we're doing—we're chasing down these executive orders, we're chasing down these rules that are promulgated, that are backdoor legislation, whether it's the EPA, the IRS, go down the list."
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They Won't Quit
Ted Nugent Goes Birther, Suggests
Obama Is Muslim In Latest Tirade
Obama Is Muslim In Latest Tirade
The Huffington Post
By Nick Wing
August 1, 2013
Perhaps it's a bigger surprise that he hadn't gone there yet, but right-wing rocker Ted Nugent added birtherism to his repertoire of anti-Obama criticism on Wednesday, attacking President Obama's "phony birth certificate" before suggesting the president was a Muslim in a column in WorldNetDaily.
Apparently infuriated by Obama's recent suggestion that his Republican opponents are obsessing over "phony scandals," Nugent unleashed a "phony" tirade, using the word more than 100 times to repeat nearly every anti-Obama attack in the book. Amid allusions to ACORN, Saul Alinsky, Operation Fast and Furious, a Fox News-hyped story about alleged voter intimidation by the Black Panthers, Obama's work as a community organizer, and more recent controversies over the administration's handling of the 2012 attack in Benghazi and Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, Nugent added disbelief about the president's birthplace to the mix:
Nugent also implied that Obama is a Muslim, claiming that accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hassan is the president's "Allah Ahkbar [sic] buddy."
Arpaio, the self-described "nation's toughest sheriff" of Maricopa County, Ariz., emerged as one of the most prominent peddlers of birther theories in 2011, continuing to seek the limelight from that conspiracy thinking long after the White House had released Obama's long-form birth certificate, which showed that he was born in Hawaii. After an expensive investigation by his "Cold Case Posse," Arpaio announced that they had "probable cause" to believe that the president's birth certificate and other documents were computer-generated forgeries. The Hawaii attorney general's office rejected Arpaio's claim.
The alleged scandal has since died down, though WND, an Internet haven for anti-Obama conspiracies, has done its best to keep birtherism alive.
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Tea partier at Ted Cruz town hall: ‘Canada is not really foreign soil’
Even so-called birthers who falsely believe that President Barack Obama was Kenyan born and not a legitimate U.S. citizen seem to think that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won’t have the same problem because “Canada is not really foreign soil.”
The Texas Tribune caught up with on of those birthers, Republican voter Christina Katok, at a tea party rally where Ted Cruz was speaking earlier this week.
Katok said that she never thought Obama met the constitutional standard of “natural born” citizen because, she reasoned incorrectly, that he was born in Kenya. The president was born in Hawaii and has released his birth certificate to prove it.
Earlier this week, Cruz released his Canadian birth certificate to The Dallas Morning News, proving that he was definitely born in a foreign country to an American mother.
But Katok told the Tribune that she wouldn’t hesitate to vote for Cruz.
“As far as I’m concerned, Canada is not really foreign soil,” she explained, adding that she was more worried about the president’s “strong ties to Kenya.” She noted that Obama had not released his long-form birth certificate until after he was elected.
For his part, Cruz has vowed to renounce his Canadian citizenship, which could require a security check and an eight-month waiting period.
Speaking to National Instruments in Austin on Thursday, Cruz poked fun at his own birth certificate situation, and at the same time, he seemed to be stoking those who don’t believe the president is a U.S. citizen.
“I promise that while y’all are out I’ll try not to give any like really juicy piece of crazy news,” Cruz said, adding, “I am secretly a citizen of Ethiopia.”
Watch this video from The Texas Tribune, broadcast Aug. 22, 2013.
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Tea partier at Ted Cruz town hall: ‘Canada is not really foreign soil’
Even so-called birthers who falsely believe that President Barack Obama was Kenyan born and not a legitimate U.S. citizen seem to think that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won’t have the same problem because “Canada is not really foreign soil.”
The Texas Tribune caught up with on of those birthers, Republican voter Christina Katok, at a tea party rally where Ted Cruz was speaking earlier this week.
Katok said that she never thought Obama met the constitutional standard of “natural born” citizen because, she reasoned incorrectly, that he was born in Kenya. The president was born in Hawaii and has released his birth certificate to prove it.
Earlier this week, Cruz released his Canadian birth certificate to The Dallas Morning News, proving that he was definitely born in a foreign country to an American mother.
But Katok told the Tribune that she wouldn’t hesitate to vote for Cruz.
“As far as I’m concerned, Canada is not really foreign soil,” she explained, adding that she was more worried about the president’s “strong ties to Kenya.” She noted that Obama had not released his long-form birth certificate until after he was elected.
For his part, Cruz has vowed to renounce his Canadian citizenship, which could require a security check and an eight-month waiting period.
Speaking to National Instruments in Austin on Thursday, Cruz poked fun at his own birth certificate situation, and at the same time, he seemed to be stoking those who don’t believe the president is a U.S. citizen.
“I promise that while y’all are out I’ll try not to give any like really juicy piece of crazy news,” Cruz said, adding, “I am secretly a citizen of Ethiopia.”
Watch this video from The Texas Tribune, broadcast Aug. 22, 2013.
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I been asking this question on newspaper message boards trolling the shit out of them CAC's:
Shouldn't Ted Cruz have had some sort of work permit to be employed in the US? Does he have a passport to legally be here?
They get HEATED! lmao then they be like "well his mom is American, so he is American too"
Then i hit em with
Well if he American, why he renouncing his Canadian citizenship?
man these damn YT folks in Texas too funny...make my day go by at work
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Shouldn't Ted Cruz have had some sort of work permit to be employed in the US? Does he have a passport to legally be here?
They get HEATED! lmao then they be like "well his mom is American, so he is American too"
Then i hit em with
Well if he American, why he renouncing his Canadian citizenship?
man these damn YT folks in Texas too funny...make my day go by at workSent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 4