Ted Cruz - secret Canadian!

[carlfense]

So in Ted Cruz we have a silent-u pronouncing applesauce-fed product of a fanatically anti-U.S.-colonialist culture whose birth certificate was printed in Canada, a country that speaks French half the time, in green ink. And he's going to be president of the United States? AndThe Dallas Morning News, which started all of this by printing his flowery little green birth certificate, thinks we're going to be OK with that?

 

We are just getting started, Dear. Believe me. He's not getting oot of it that easy.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/08/so_you_think_were_just_going_t.php

 

[rawhide]

oot with the lights. Hey, knock it off; that's dutch.

[carlfense]

Release the records! Impeach!

Cruz’s official Canadian birth certificate, as posted by the Dallas Morning News, shows that Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on December 22, 1970. Oddly, however, the birth was not registered until December 31, leaving an unexplained gap of nine days. But where was baby Ted over Christmas, an astute birther might ask. Donald Trump could build a casino in a hole that size.

Still, the birth certificate does state that Cruz’s mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. As Cruz has often said, that made him a U.S. citizen at birth, and therefore eligible to be president – but only if the birth certificate is accurate. The Canadian officials would have had no reason to question Cruz’s mother about her native country, nor would they have demanded any proof. Her word alone was good enough for Canadian purposes. Why would they care about the baby’s future qualification for the U.S. presidency?

Which brings us – or rather, which ought to bring the birthers – to the documents Cruz has not produced. Where, for example, is the Consular Report of Birth Abroad, which Cruz’s parents could have obtained at the U.S. consulate in Calgary? That would at least establish their intention to register him as an American citizen while they were living in Canada. For that matter, where is Eleanor Wilson’s own birth certificate? I mean, anyone can claim to have been born in Delaware, and everyone (including this dual citizen of the United States and Canada) knows that Canadians are too polite to ask tough questions. Birthers will have no such qualms. Will they require documentary proof?

 

Of course, even a sheaf of birth certificates would still leave Cruz’s citizenship technically open to question. Under the law in effect in 1970, Cruz would only have acquired U.S. citizenship if his mother had been “physically present” in the United States for ten years prior to his birth, including five years after she reached the age of fourteen. Neither Cruz’s birth certificate, nor his mother’s, nor the Consular Report could irrefutably establish Eleanor Wilson’s residence for the necessary length of time. For all birthers know, she might have been living in Kenya.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/ted_cruzs_ironic_birther_predicament/

 

The American people deserve answers.

[BigRedBuster]

Good Lord, I struggled through about two paragraphs of that before I realized I would rather shoot myself in the foot than keep reading.

 

So....this guy is a politician, he was asked to provide his birth certificate and he did and it's from Canada. Am I getting this right? Is he running for President? Please explain the issue other than this idiot who wrote this obviously has his panties in a wad about the Tea Party.

[carlfense]

So....this guy is a politician, he was asked to provide his birth certificate and he did and it's from Canada. Am I getting this right?

I'm not sure if you are getting it right or not.

 

I think that it's hilarious.

 

Is he running for President?

He's probably just vacationing in Iowa . . .

[StPaulHusker]

So....this guy is a politician, he was asked to provide his birth certificate and he did and it's from Canada. Am I getting this right?

I'm not sure if you are getting it right or not.

 

I think that it's hilarious.

 

Is he running for President?

He's probably just vacationing in Iowa . . .

I'm guessing after this, he won't be vacationing there much longer.