This makes it appear he has a good record on the financial side of governing and is acceptable on social issues.
I noticed on the prior thread, moonbat birthers are already taking flight.
Here is some real facts for you: Puerto Rico in an unincorporated territory and, as per the U.S. Supreme Court, not a part of the United States.
The key here is “unincorporated territory”.
(For comparison, Arizona was an “incorporated territory” and considered part of the U.S.A. before becoming a state.)
The Puerto Ricans are granted citizenship per Congress, which the Congress can revoke at any time. Their citzenship is strictly statutory as neither Congress nor the Supreme Court’s decisions recognize PR as part of the United States.
Natural Born citizenship is not a form of citizeship, it is an eligibility requirement to be President or VP. One must be born within the US of parents who are citizens.
Panama is also an unincorporated territory and children born in the Canal Zone to U.S. parents are considered citizens-by-statute but not natural born citizens as the Panama Canal Zone IS NOT a part of the United States.
The following is from Wikipedia and pertains to the Panama Canal Zone, but it is a good example of how the Surpreme Court decided that the Constitution DID NOT follow the flag:
“Although the Panama Canal Zone was legally an unincorporated U.S. territory until the implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1979, questions arose almost from its inception as to whether the Zone was considered part of the United States for constitutional purposes, or, in the phrase of the day, whether the Constitution followed the flag. In 1901 the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in Downes v. Bidwell that unincorporated territories are not the United States.[26] On July 28, 1904, Controller of the Treasury Robert Tracewell stated: “While the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution is applicable to the zone, that domain is not a part of the United States within the full meaning of the Constitution and laws of the country.”[27] Accordingly, the Supreme Court held in 1905 in Rasmussen v. United States that the full Constitution only applies for incorporated territories of the United States.[28] Until the rulings in these so-called “Insular Cases”, children born of two U.S. citizens in the Canal Zone had been subject to the Naturalization Act of 1795, which granted statutory U.S. citizenship at birth. With the ruling of 1905 persons born in the Canal Zone only became U.S. nationals, not citizens.[29] This no man’s land with regard to U.S. citizenship was perpetuated until Congress passed legislation in 1937, which corrected this deficiency. The law is now codified under title 8 section 1403.[30] It not only grants statutory and declaratory born citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone after February 26, 1904, with at least one U.S. citizen parent, but also did so retroactively for all children born of at least one U.S. citizen in the Canal Zone before the law’s enactment.[31]”
Do you understand now?