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US Federal Government Shutdown | Shutdown Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Raised

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LiveFromKyoto said:
Because the assholes who are impressed by what he's doing are the same ones who are going to vote for him in a presidential primary. This isn't about making the government work for him, it's about getting nominated.
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He can't run for president, he is not an American by birth. While it is a kind of silly law, people should be glad it exists in cruze's case.
 
King Of Fuh said:
He can't run for president, he is not an American by birth. While it is a kind of silly law, people should be glad it exists in cruze's case.
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It isn't silly at all. Why would any other country want someone that is an American running their country for instance?
 
Tesseract said:
da gop is collapsing.
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Reminds me of that old line from Karl Rove (the aide in the quote below) to Ron Suskind:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
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(source)
 
davepoobond said:
It isn't silly at all. Why would any other country want someone that is an American running their country for instance?
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Because if they don't want them running the country, they don't have to vote for them? But if he/she is the most qualified person for the job that's what should matter?

Just because a guy didn't flop out of his mom in an American hospital doesn't mean the person is incapable of being a great president. As long as they are a citizen, why does the other part matter?

But again, for cruse the law is a blessing.
 
A memorandum to Congress dated April 3, 2009, written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), states:

Considering the history of the constitutional qualifications provision, the common use and meaning of the phrase "natural-born subject" in England and in the Colonies in the 1700s, the clause's apparent intent, the subsequent action of the first Congress in enacting the Naturalization Act of 1790 (expressly defining the term "natural born citizen" to include a person born abroad to parents who are United States citizens), as well as subsequent Supreme Court dicta, it appears that the most logical inferences would indicate that the phrase "natural born Citizen" would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth".
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Cruz was an American at birth, as entitled by his mother's US citizenship. He can be President.
 
King Of Fuh said:
Just because a guy didn't flop out of his mom in an American hospital doesn't mean the person is incapable of being a great president. As long as they are a citizen, why does the other part matter?
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Because Jesus, astrology, numerology, the great pyramids, the Rosicrucians and Nicolas Cage.
 
Was flipping through the channels and even Pat Robertson knows the GOP/Tea Party is batshit insane for preventing the bill to pass.

I mean Pat Robertson!
 
King Of Fuh said:
Because if they don't want them running the country, they don't have to vote for them? But if he/she is the most qualified person for the job that's what should matter?

Just because a guy didn't flop out of his mom in an American hospital doesn't mean the person is incapable of being a great president. As long as they are a citizen, why does the other part matter?

But again, for cruse the law is a blessing.
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There's a reason that qualification is necessary.

We are not a country that should allow someone who is born to American parents and never lived in America to be a president. That's not something that makes any sense. How can someone who doesn't live in the country run the country?

You can be born outside the country to American parents you just need to live INSIDE America for long enough.
 
Thatonemoor said:
Was he born on American soil? Cause to be the president you have to be born from American parents and be born on American soil.

Edit: Am I wrong also?
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He was born in Canada. Whether or not he can run depends on how you interpret the natural born citizen clause and what they means for citizens by birth in the Constitution. Some Constitutional lawyers would define that if you are a citizen by birth (as Cruz is under the guidelines set by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952) you are indeed a natural-born citizen and thus eligible to run, whereas others say you have to be born in the U.S. or in U.S. governed territories to be considered natural born.
 
davepoobond said:
There's a reason that qualification is necessary.

We are not a country that should allow someone who is born to American parents and never lived in America to be a president. That's not something that makes any sense. How can someone who doesn't live in the country run the country?

You can be born outside the country to American parents you just need to live INSIDE America for long enough.
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You lost me. I never said anything about people not living in america. I said the law was silly that restricted american citizens from being president just because they weren't born there. People who immigrate, for instance. Divine right of birth requirements is medieval nonsense. Elect the right american to be president regardless of where they came from, as long as they are citizens when they run.

And if people don't like their former foreignness they can protest with their vote.
 
So what are the odds this will be sorted by the deadline? Last night I would have said 60/40 and then I wake up to today's mess with the do nothing GOP. Now I just don't know anymore.
 
King Of Fuh said:
You lost me. I never said anything about people not living in america. I said the law was silly that restricted american citizens from being president just because they weren't born there. People who immigrate, for instance. Divine right of birth requirements is medieval nonsense. Elect the right american to be president regardless of where they came from, as long as they are citizens when they run.

And if people don't like their former foreignness they can protest with their vote.
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Yeah, that's why the Tea Partiers protested against having a Kenyan as president.
 
brian577 said:
So what are the odd is will be sorted by the dealine? Last night I would have said 60/40 and then I wake up to today's mess with the do nothing GOP. Now I just don't know anymore.
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I would be optimistic.

A deal is there, it just has to clear all of the various procedural hoops in Congress. (I.E. Survive a vote in both houses without the Tea Party hijacking it)
 
helloresolven said:
Not sure if you are joking... but his mother was an American working in Canada. He's American by birth.
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I wanna see the certificate.

billboardbirthcertificate650.jpg
 
Just wanted to point out something, the bill to pass the budget and the bill to raise the debt limit are two separate things. The debt limit bill has to be on its own due to House Resolution 12:
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that any
extension of the public debt limit only be considered in a standalone
bill.
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http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-resolution/12/text

So it is still possible for one to pass but not the other.
 
DrSlek said:
Julia Gillard is Welsh. Nobody gave a shit while she was Prime Minister of Australia.
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And Tony Abbott is a pom. Kinda wish he was disqualified though...


and anyway, if a non-natural born citizen can be a senator, rep or governor, why can't they be president? Seems like a pretty antiquated rule.
 
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