Posted on 04/18/2012 2:29:47 PM PDT by TexasVoter
[B]irthers are focusing on U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, the budding Republican star from Florida.
“It’s nothing to do with him personally. But you can’t change the rules because you like a certain person. Then you have no rules,” said New Jersey lawyer Mario Apuzzo.
Forget about the alleged Photoshopped birth certificates; the activists are not challenging whether Rubio was born in Miami. Rather, they say Rubio is ineligible under Article 2 of the Constitution which says “no person except a natural born citizen … shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
We can do an end run around the Obama Complicity Cabal and still attract proper attention to the Constitutional national security issue of POTUS eligibility by denying Rubio the kind of free pass that Obama got.
And if Rubio is not eligible (and he most definitely is NOT, since his parents were not US citizens when he was born) then neither is Obama.
He has integrity, for now.
-PJ
Answer to question in headline: No.
He is “ native “ born , and not “ natural born “ ( both parents citizens ) , so is ineligible . So is Obama for that matter , assuming Obama Sr., a Kenynan , was his father .
Unlike Obama, Rubio meets the Supreme Court criteria for 14th amendment citizenship, but neither of them are natural-born citizens.
short statement...
IF BRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is eligible then
MARCO RUBIO is also...
short statement...
IF BRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is eligible then
MARCO RUBIO is also...
Precisely!
The entire House of Representatives must campaign for reelection, plus a third of the Senate. Every time some career politcian steps up to a microphone between now and November, each and every one of these (I say traitors, but you pick your own perjorative) needs to have this issue hit them like a pie in the face:
“I have a question about a national security provision of the Constitution, Congressman/Senator. What was the Framer’s intent when they used the phrase, ‘natural born citizen?’”
More on this subject at this blog - The Steady Drip:
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-email-to-marco-rubio-are-you.html
Well, let's see: Rubio was a Mormon as a kid for several years...which, if what Romney says about the "faith of his fathers" is true, then both Romney & Rubio were "spirit born" on a planet near the star Kolob.
That would make both as originating not only beyond the United States, but Planet Earth as well.
So...we're going to have TRUE "aliens" from another planet be THE leaders of the free world???
Hmmm...wonder if a new movement will crop up...called 'Spirit Birthers'...
Rubio, whose national ascent has been propelled by a tea party that demands absolute fealty to the Constitution, shrugged off the issue.In other words, treating the US Constitution as the law of the land is demanding "absolute fealty to the Constitution"?
Liberals are cockroaches.
"Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity."-- William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America (1829)
The original American ethnic stock is no longer important. It's time to replace them with La gente del futuro.
Viva la Raza.
If the Repubs put Rubio on the ticket it is for sure they lose my vote and perhaps anyone I can convince why. Principle and concience does matter to some people.There are questions about Romney without mudding the water with Rubio’s eligibility. Attitude goes for any Repub candidate.
One thing is for certain that you can bet your entire family’s net worth on:
If he gets to a position where this matters, the media will apply EVERY scintilla of their power to investigate him and every member of his family in as an extreme and thorough fashion as they can possibly muster, twist every finding and opinion they can, and repeat in unison till hell freezes over that he is ineligible for that office.
Rawle, apparently was the first in a long line of idiots, that can not understand plain English, and by association that would include you.
they say Romney should keep Biden as VP -- well in terms of usefulness that's like saying Romney should garner a warm bucket of piss for VP.
“He is ‘ native ‘ born , and not ‘ natural born ‘”
For the umpteenthiest time, there is no such category of citizenship known as “native but not natural born.” There are only two types: natural born and naturalized.
Put Rubio's name into the hat and do it with a fanfare.
Then when the media goes after him the Native born vs. Natural born issue will get the play it deserves.
The "Birther's" have missed the entire point as it DOES NOT MATTER were zero was born.
“That would make both as originating not only beyond the United States, but Planet Earth as well.”
Citizenship adheres to the status of your carnal self at birth, not your psyche. “Old souls” wandering the heavens for millenia, for instance, could be born, or reborn as it were, as U.S. citizens.
Are you suggesting that Rawle was a Framer of the Constitution?
Do you further mean to suggest that a foreigner should be able to father a child on US soil, raise the child abroad as an enemy of the state, and reintroduce that child into the US in time to meet the 14-year residency requirements of Art. 2 Sec. 1? You think that's what John Jay and George Washington intended?
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