Steve_McGarrett
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Not true at all. The law for people born between December 23, 1952 and November 13, 1986 says: When one parent was a U.S. citizen and the other a foreign national, the U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to birth of the child with FIVE of the years after the age of 14. Stanley Ann Dunham did not meet requisite status to confer citizenship to Barack at birth. She was only 18 at time of delivery and had to be age 19.There is no question that Senator Cruz's mother is an American Citizen. None at all.
Just as there is no question that under current law that makes him a Citizen.
So why is CNN questioning his Citizenship?
Can Ted Cruz run for president? - CNN.com
Can Ted Cruz run for president?
While the issue of President Barack Obama's birth has long been settled, and it's a moot point anyway since he's in his second term in office, there remain some people who won't be convinced.
Just ask members of Congress, who even this summer are encountering so-called "birthers" at town hall meetings.
With Ted Cruz, there is no conspiracy. He wasn't born in the United States. But that hasn't stopped the junior Texas senator from courting a possible presidential bid.
The dynamic young senator has traveled to Iowa and other early primary states. If his moves toward a candidacy become more serious, they're sure to spark first a debate about his conservative politics, but also that recurring debate about whether a "natural-born citizen" can be born outside the United States.
Birther-in-chief Donald Trump, who appeared to be running singularly on that issue in 2011, was more restrained when he was asked if Canadian-born Cruz was eligible to be president. "Perhaps not," Trump told ABC News on Sunday.
"I don't know the circumstances. I heard somebody told me he was born in Canada. That's really his thing," said Trump, who could face Cruz in a GOP primary if both men follow through with runs they appear to be teasing.
Another Cruz trip to Iowa raises 2016 speculation
Cruz seems to think the facts are on his side.
"My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen," Cruz told ABC in July. "I'm not going to engage in a legal debate. The facts are clear," he added. "I can tell you where I was born and who my parents were. And then as a legal matter, others can worry about that. I'm not going to engage."
There is precedent for people born outside the United States making credible runs for the presidency. George Romney, Mitt Romney's father, was born in Mexico to Mormon missionaries. He ran for president in 1968.
For all the ink spilled about Obama's provenance -- Hawaii, people -- it was actually John McCain in the 2008 presidential contest who was born outside the United States.
McCain's father, an admiral, was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone.
Democrats didn't make an issue of McCain's birthright to run, however. In fact, Democratic candidates Obama and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton sponsored a non-binding resolution in the spring of 2008 declaring that McCain was a natural-born citizen.
This is all the U.S. Constitution has to say about the qualifications to be president:
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
That's pretty clear. Only a 35-year-old (or older) "natural-born citizen" can be president. But it turns out not be that clear.
Who is a "natural-born citizen?"
Citizen scholarship falls on the side of McCain. He had two American citizen parents and one was working for the U.S. government when he was born in Panama.
Cruz doesn't check all those boxes. His father, a preacher who has delivered stem-winding speeches of his own, has since become an American. But at the time of Ted's birth in Canada, he was a Cuban émigré working for an oil company. His mother, however, hails from Delaware.
Cruz must be scaring the hell out of the Democrats and Liberal Elites for CNN to be running these type of articles so early in the campaign season.
Perhaps I need, we all need, to give Cruz a more serious look.
Therefore, evem if Obama was born in Kenya, he still would have been eligible. It was a moot point.