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Ted Cruz, a member of the U.S. Senate for just a few weeks, already is being talked about as a possible Republican candidate for president.<\/p>\n

I hope he runs. I really do.<\/p>\n

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The freshman Texas Republican senator, though, might have to answer some questions about \u2013 are you ready for this? \u2013 whether he\u2019s constitutionally qualified to hold the office. Sound familiar? It should. This bogus controversy dogged the current president, Barack Obama, for most of his first term.<\/p>\n

Even though Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother \u2013 and has produced documentation to prove it \u2013 the idiotic \u201cbirther\u201d crowd among Republicans kept raising the place of birth issue as a way to derail his presidency. They expressed doubts he was telling the truth, saying he was born in Kenya, the birthplace of his father.<\/p>\n

Now we have Ted Cruz quite possibly lining up to run for the office in 2016. He\u2019s a star with the tea party crowd of the GOP. But unlike the phony issue of Obama\u2019s place of birth, Cruz in fact was born outside the United States of America. Is he constitutionally qualified? Here\u2019s what the Constitution says in Article II Section 1, word for word, about that issue: \u201cNo 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 \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

There you have it. Clear as mud, right?<\/p>\n

Baby Ted was born in Canada in 1970 to an American mother and a Cuban father. Does that disqualify him? Cruz says it wouldn\u2019t, were he to run for the presidency. Cruz inherited his mother\u2019s U.S. citizenship immediately upon his birth, say constitutional scholars. No problem there, right? Maybe, maybe not. Then again, if there\u2019s no problem with Cruz\u2019s birth, given his mother\u2019s citizenship, why would it have been a problem with Obama\u2019s birth had he been born outside the United States?<\/em> Barack Obama\u2019s mother was a U.S. citizen, too. <\/p>\n

Gosh, you don\u2019t suppose the race of his father had anything to do with it \u2026 do you?<\/p>\n

Ted Cruz has time to consider his options here. If he decides to take the presidential plunge, he\u2019d better be ready to answer the question: Is he or isn\u2019t he qualified to run? Maybe he can ask the current president how to handle that one.<\/p>\n\n

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Ted Cruz, a member of the U.S. Senate for just a few weeks, already is being talked about as a possible Republican candidate for president. I hope he runs. I really do. http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/txpotomac\/2013\/03\/ted-cruz-addresses-birther-issue-with-sean-hannity-says-he-was-born-a-u-s-citizen-in-canada\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter The freshman Texas Republican senator, though, might have to answer some questions about \u2013 are you ready for this? \u2013 whether he\u2019s … Continue reading \u2018Birther\u2019 issue might bite back at GOP hopeful<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}