and recommended!

I remember contributing to him when is ran in the Democratic primary against Bill Clinton. Loved him then, love him now.

I'm glad he's our governor and I want him here.

Always been a Jerry Brown fan.

Proud to repeat that lo these many years later. Always found him to be a class act. AND he's got brains galore! He's got more brains in the cuticle of one pinkie finger than ted cruz has - or will ever hope to have - in his entire freakin' family's body.

Why is this even up for discussion??? He wasn't born here! Whatever his crowd claims, falsely, about Barack Obama being ineligible - actually applied directly and factually to ted cruz. He can't run for president!!! He isn't US born!

It's kind of odd that the conservatives are so offended by even the possibility that a democrat was not born here, but with their guy - no problem.

I think Cruz is eligible though, I believe his parents were citizens even though he was born in Canada.

Panama can be argued as an American possession or territory, so mccain skates through on a technicality. I remember that, too. The canal district was technically American soil when he was born there. I think it isn't considered American soil anymore since Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal back to the Panamanians - who are, themselves, citizens of their own separate sovereign country if I'm not mistaken.

Shit - I remember this guy Ray Briem, talk show host on one of the then-powerful and influential AM talk stations in L.A. (KABC-AM). He was the overnight guy, and he was a right-wing crank back when everybody laughed at talk show hosts like him. Ray Briem's signature sign-off was "Don't Give Up the Panama Canal!" He'd say that at the end of every show, after he signed off by name. "I'm Ray Briem. Don't Give Up the Panama Canal!" Every night/morning.

Those were the days. When whack jobs like him got the reaction they deserved - snickers and scoffs and lots of eyeball-rolling. Now, they're paid king's ransoms and feted to the stars at the NAB Conventions and on Bill Maher's show and they have their own cable network (Pox Noise) and they're all big-time and taken very seriously. But back then, in the 70s, they were laughed at. ALL of them subjects of broad based derision and ridicule. Now they're hailed as heroes and patriots and one of 'em just announced on this very morning that he's running for President.

Both McCain's father and grandfather were admirals in the US Navy. That gives him a long history of being an American.

It seems like Cruz's dad was born in Cuba. I don't know how conservatives have so thoroughly embraced him. Sure, Obama's dad was from Africa, but his grandfather was a Kansan.

It seems like the things that they claim are true about Obama ACTUALLY are true about Cruz.

I didn't waste my precious time during that monumental grandstanding showboating reeking crap. I went to the kitchen and made a cup of coffee instead) I am stunned that NOBODY is bringing this up. NOT ONE. Not andrea greenspan, not any of the reporters on-scene, not the talking heads on the after-panel, NOBODY. Is this really NOT an issue? How come nobody in the press is bringing this up? Hell, we hung on every word of every birther on the planet a few years ago - and even, still, nowadays. But NOTHING is said about this very clear complication ted cruz has? Now if anybody feels a need to challenge any politician's birth certificate, HE is the one that deserves it. And NOTHING is being said. Not even in jest.

....Cruz, the Cubanadian, has no business running for ANY public office. From city councilman or county commissioner on up.

But Cruz sure does lie effectively. He said that with utter conviction.

He never sold out.

Chuckie ain't gonna have him on the show any more because Gov. Brown speaks the truth and makes sense.

That's MY governor, too. Past and current. It was a pleasure voting for him back then, and it was just as big a pleasure (no, actually, I take that back - it was a BIGGER pleasure) to vote for him again more recently.

the lunatics are running the asylum now.