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An email from a friend in Arizona…
These are the ONLY ones to beat OBAMA! Both are winners, popular and have all the “Right Stuff”….. They can deliver big electoral VOTES….. Obama has enough bad baggage ….Perry & Rubio will “wipe him and the drapes out of the White House”. Be positive and get behind Perry/Rubio
who will not be convinced that Rubio is not eligible because he is not a Natural Born Citizen as spelled out in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution prompted me to repost this article which appeared in WorldNetDaily last week.
Marco Rubio and eligibility
Posted: September 09, 2011
4:03 pm Eastern
By Robert Klein Engler
© 2011
Sen. Marco Rubio’s star is rising in the Republican Party. There is talk he may be on the ticket as a candidate for vice president once the party picks its candidate for president. If it’s up to the birthers and the Country Club Republicans, Rubio’s place on the ticket may not materialize.
For years, the birthers have been treated with disdain by the left and mainstream media. Part of this disdain is generated by fringe elements in the birther community. If the media can overlook these fringe elements, they will see that many birthers are loyal Americans who simply want the U.S. Constitution to be respected. In short, the birther argument against Obama and possibly Sen. Rubio is a constitutional argument.
There are many in the birther camp who argue that when the U.S. Constitution says being a “natural born citizen” (Article II, Section 1) is one qualification to be president and vice president, it means that both parents of the candidate must have been U.S. citizens when the candidate for president was born.
They argue that to be a natural born citizen of the United States requires not only birth on U.S. soil but two parents as U.S. citizens as well. This argument is not spelled out in the Constitution but is an interpretation of the unique phrase “natural born citizen.” Nevertheless, there are valid and strong arguments in favor of the two-parent position. Writing in WND, Drew Zahn sums up these arguments.
At the end of his summation, Zahn adds, “The U.S. Supreme Court, for its part, has admitted the Constitution does not define what is meant by ‘natural born citizen’ and hasn’t offered a ruling to solve the dispute.”
The very fact that the high court has not defined what “natural born citizen” means is why Marco Rubio will not be a candidate for vice president. Nobody wants to raise this issue in court, let alone Republicans or Democrats.
In spite of the ambiguity in the Constitution about the term natural born citizen, there are pundits like Chet Arthur who argue that an interpretation of the 14th Amendment is sufficient to have Sen. Rubio on the ticket. If Rubio runs, Arthur’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment will be challenged. The birthers and some tea-party members will see to that.
If a citizenship challenge is brought to court, then both political parties will be in a bind. To raise the issue of Rubio’s natural born citizenship status is to also raise again the same issue in regard to Obama.
Clearly, if Rubio is not a natural born citizen, but just a citizen by birth, because his two parents were not U.S. citizens, so also is Obama not a natural born citizen – and his presidency is null and void. Who in either party wants a campaign discussion of that issue?
So far, no one has asked Rubio in public if he considers himself to be a natural born citizen. It is doubtful if anyone in the mainstream media will ask that question. What can Rubio answer if he is asked?
A “yes” will force a discussion of the issue and may even get members of the tea party and birthers agitated enough to bring the issue to court. If he answers “no,” he is claiming that the Obama presidency is null and void. That is an issue the Country Club Republicans would prefer to avoid, as they have been avoiding all along.
Sen. Rubio could raise the issue of natural born citizenship himself as a patriotic gesture, but that would not sit well with the Country Club Republicans. They know with Rubio on the ticket they have a good chance of winning the White House, but gnawing at the back of their minds is the unseemliness of questioning the eligibility of Obama, our first black president.
Read more: Marco Rubio and eligibility
And while you’re doing your homework, there are some good articles here:
What’s good for the goose …
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Rush Limbaugh predicts: Marco Rubio will be president
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The Marco Rubio birthers
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News media taking stance on Marco Rubio eligibility
Look what pundits are calling those who even bring up issue
Vice President Marco Rubio?
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