
Stinkin Canadian. Dang feriner conspirin to come over here and replace our delicious crispy all-American bacon with that floppy communist Canadian crap. And Budweiser? Like your Budweiser? Forget it. If hes elected its nothing but that skunky Molson swill for you my friend. Football? Banned. Its all sticks pucks and missing teeth from here on out. A wall on the southern border? ISIS? TB-infected Mesicans and Central Americans? Ha! A mere diversion. Trump needs to build that wall up north to keep commie Canucks like Ted Cruz out of the White House.
Hes gaining on The Donald you see. And so
finally the question of his eligibility to serve as our 45th U.S. president is fair game. Oh sure Ted grew up in Houston Texas. And oh sure his mother who happened to be over the border in Canada when Ted was born is a U.S citizen herself born in Wilmington Delaware which oh sure automatically makes Ted a U.S. citizen from birth. But hey! I the guys down at the Elks Lodge with their pocket constitutions and whatnot and Donald Trump who with his own political self-interests in mind has suddenly
flip-flopped on the subject all disagree. Ted Cruz is ineligible to serve as President of the United States based upon our extreme-minority take on the phrase Natural-born citizen."
For that matter and based upon our own arbitrary and narrow definition I know its not defined in the Constitution but derpity derp derp anyway some might suggest that rather than being grandfathered in and to be fair to future generations eight of the first nine U.S. presidents should have been ineligible to serve as well. Since they were all born as British citizens in the British colonies George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson et al. should have been one and all constitutionally ineligible.
Sure the worlds on fire and America is spiraling down the global toilet bowl of life but before we start worrying about tertiary issues like national security" the economy" or illegal immigration" I The Donald and the boys down at the Elks Lodge want nay we demand! that Ted Cruz be immediately arrested tagged in the ear and bussed back to Calgary posthaste.
And then lets get about the business of impeaching (posthumously of course. Whaddya think were idiots?) James Madison James Monroe Andrew Jackson and the rest of them shifty immigrants already mentioned above before we hold even one more debate. (Marty Van Buren is cool. That boys red-blooded as they come).
Even 2008 presidential candidate and Marco Rubio supporter John McCain is on board. When recently asked about Ted Cruzs eligibility to run for president McCain
responded I think there is a question. Im not a constitutional scholar on that but I think its worth looking into. I dont think its illegitimate to look into it."
A McCain aide whom he affectionately called Ms. Bunny" then leaned over and was heard through a hot mic whispering Um Senator. Dont forget. You were born in Panama." To which Sen. McCain replied that he was pretty sure Panama was a small town in central Arizona and that the Panama Canal was built some years ago for the primary purpose of moving tourist swag across the Colorado River from the Grand Canyons North Rim to its South.
Ms. Bunny then smiled nodded and continued feeding the eight-term lawmaker his cream of wheat.
OK. All that said Ill admit it. The closest thing we have to an actual definition of natural born citizen" comes to us by way of the English common law. Statutes in England prior to the Revolutionary War for instance define natural born subject" as follows: The children of all natural born subjects born out of the ligeance i.e. out of England of Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors shall be deemed and adjudged to be natural born subjects of this Kingdom to all intents constructions and purposes whatsoever."
But since when did we start listening to a bunch of Limeys anyway? Have you ever heard one say schedule"? Its like Ooh do you want to shhedule tea and crumpets?" No wonder we whipped em. Bunch a Redcoat dandies.
And sure there are people like Neal Katyal and Paul Clement both constitutional experts and former U.S. solicitors general who disagree with me The Donald and the Elks Lodge boys. Writing together in the
Harvard Law Review these two Washington-Jefferson-Cruz sycophants explain that We may have different ideas about the ideal candidate in the next presidential election but we agree on one important principle: voters should be able to choose from all constitutionally eligible candidates free from spurious arguments that a U.S. citizen at birth is somehow not constitutionally eligible to serve as president simply because he was delivered at a hospital abroad."
Yeah so what? Harvard? Cruz graduated from Harvard Law. Need I say more?
These yahoos claim the phrase natural born citizen has a specific meaning: namely someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time." They further argue all the sources routinely used to interpret the Constitution" are abundantly clear on this near-universal definition.
And Congress" they conclude has made equally clear from the time of the framing of the Constitution to the current day that subject to certain residency requirements on the parents someone born to a U.S. citizen parent generally becomes a U.S. citizen without regard to whether the birth takes place in Canada the Canal Zone or the continental United States."
But who cares what these ivory tower Harvard highbrows think anyway?
Theyre probably communists too.