If I understand the Birther Controversy correctly, the problem was that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore could not be the president of the United States because he wasn’t a “natural born” citizen. His birth certificate that claimed he was born in a Honolulu hospital is a fake.
Okay, so following this logic, Ted Cruz’s birth certificate that shows that he was born in Calgary, Canada is proof that he, too, is ineligible to be president of the United States, and it doesn’t matter whether or not he pays $100, fills out a four-page form, and renounces his Canadian citizenship because he ain’t natural born.
Why is this so hard?
Doesn’t matter. No way he’ll be elected.
Are you saying there is no way he gets the Republican nomination? Because in the event of a seriously tanking economy, and it could happen, I am not so sure he couldn’t win a presidential election.
For all the spin about the ‘recovery,’ and there is a lot of spin, the global GDP is slowly and steadily declining and has been since 2010. This is not a context in which capitalism prospers or even copes well.
The decent jobs which built the middle-class over a century are not coming back and we are only just beginning to deal with the consequences.
IOKIYR.
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Where the R standard for “really, really pale.”
Duh, it’s all about Ted having the “right” amount of melanin.
Unless, of course, the same special ops that went back in time to “plant” Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu newspapers also stopped off in Calgary to “fake” Teddy’s birth certificate, just to future-discredit a Real Murkin®©TM like him.
We’re through the looking glass here, people…
I believe Cruz’s pigmentation trumps the logic.
See, it’s not hard at all.
But Cruz is also legally a Cuban citizen, which makes him eligible by Hispanic exception. The anti-Castro exemption.
The question is whether George Soros will carry on about Cruz like Trump does about Obama.
For the birthers, there really is only one claim to ineligibility; Obama is a black man in the White House. Never met a local birther for whom that fact isn’t true.
Logic, fairness, honesty, integrity, etc. are irrelevant to partisan politics. It’s all about throwing whatever duplicitous, dishonest, hypocritical POS at the wall to see what sticks to give the opposition a black eye. Oh, and shoot any messenger or whistleblower that dares to expose the truth about the team one favors.
I have no doubt that if Romney had succeeded in 2008 and brought “Romneycare” to the country, that the supporters and opponents of “Obamacare” would flip sides. However, it is interesting that on the matter of the US surveillance state that GOP partisans supported when Bush was in the WH haven’t withdrawn their support on this issue. Only DEM partisans have flipped now that it’s a DEM in the WH and then have the audacity to criticize those that consistently opposed “Big Brother.”
Well, not me, Marie. I’d still be holding out for single-payer.
heh. The historical moment for single payer in this country has long since passed, if it ever existed at all.
No, it hasn’t, Marie, but I think you know that.
You mean after the apocalypse?
Logic? Logic? Remember this? Remember creating our own reality? They are surrealists.
I don’t think anybody who was a birther or nonchalantly sided with them is going to be fully on board with Ted Cruz now. How do they reconcile with themselves after the Obama birth denial movement? People don’t reconcile with themselves they move on to another choice that more to their wants and needs.
This is why there’s teh Wonkette:
http://wonkette.com/526079/canada-breathes-sigh-of-relief-as-ted-cruz-denies-canadian-citizenship
http://wonkette.com/526155/canadian-ted-cruz-shocked-shocked-to-learn-he-is-canadian
Barack Obama is BLACK
BLACK
BLACK
BLACKEDITY
BLACK
BLACK
BLACILICIOUS
BLACK
any more questions?
Isn’t he half white?
(ducks)
if he woulda been put out in the fields during slavery…
if he woulda been drinking from the COLORED water fountains during Jim Crow…
if he’s standing out there, watching cab after cab pass him by in any Urban city…
He’s Black in America.
I know. It was meant ironically.
But well-put.
NO!!!!!!!! … not in the teeny tiny minds of the teatards,
Perish that islamofascistcommiedopesmokingmetrosexualsocialistnon-amurikan idea.
I completely understand. No matter how many times the GOP does it I still get stunned the next time they blazenly, hypocritically, change their so-called principles 180 degrees because the party label changed.
I guess I just can’t wrap my head around how people who can walk and talk and drive and generally function like real humans can be so fucking incredibly STUPID as to believe that Cruz is eligible for the Presidency but Obama not.
“We have always been at war with
EurasiaEastasia.”I’m just looking forward to the GOP’s Latino outreach if they do end up nominating him. “You suck, but our guy has a Spanish name!”
More fun.
David Ljunggren, Reuters: Senator Cruz may have to wait eight months to stop being Canadian
President McCain was not born in the USofA, either.
Okay, so following this logic, Ted Cruz’s birth certificate that shows that he was born in Calgary, Canada is proof that he, too, is ineligible to be president of the United States, and it doesn’t matter whether or not he pays $100, fills out a four-page form, and renounces his Canadian citizenship because he ain’t natural born.
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