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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 06:42 PM Jul 2015

What is good for the goose ... Can Ted Cruz really be President?

LFR Note:This Story is a little old, I know, but it brings up some good questions that the right threw at us about President Obama!

Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada, eligible to run for president?
By Steve Contorno on Thursday, March 26th, 2015 at 4:31 p.m.
For most of his presidential campaign and much of his presidency, President Barack Obama endured erroneous claims that he was born in Kenya rather than the United States. He released the short form of his birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii. Then the long form. The conspiracists died down, but they remained.

Now, the first candidate to throw his hat in the ring for the 2016 presidential contest, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was born outside the United States, a fact he willingly offered.

Cruz, who was born in Canada, has maintained there are no constitutional barriers that prevent him from running. And so far the challenges to his candidacy are few and far between.


read more @ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/mar/26/ted-cruz-born-canada-eligible-run-president-update/

And this from Time Magazine...

What the Supreme Court Could Say About Ted Cruz’s Canadian Past
Lily Rothman @lilyrothman March 23, 2015

The 'natural born citizen' clause has never really been tested

When Sen. Ted Cruz launched his presidential campaign Monday at Liberty University, he began by telling his parents’ stories of immigration from Cuba, on his father’s part, and overcoming the odds at home, on his mother’s part. One much-discussed element of Cruz’s personal story, however, got only a brief nod: “When I was three, my father decided to leave my mother and me,” Cruz told the audience. “We were living in Calgary at the time.”

read more @ http://time.com/3754408/ted-cruz-history-natural-born/


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