Sen Ted Cruz... Scarry

[js207]

I don't think that's an issue - John McCain was also born outside the US, but both have US citizenship from birth by parentage, making birthplace irrelevant. Yes, Cruz also has or had Canadian citizenship (as I recall, he has renounced it or applied to do so), but it's having US citizenship from birth that's important.

[Thorne]

but it's having US citizenship from birth that's important.

Try telling that the Tea Baggers, Donald Trump and all the other idiots who have made such a big stink over Obama's citizenship. And he WAS born in the US!

[js207]

Try telling that the Tea Baggers, Donald Trump and all the other idiots who have made such a big stink over Obama's citizenship. And he WAS born in the US!

The whole theory there is that he wasn't born there - and had he been born in Kenya as the theory claims, he would not have citizenship through his mother, since she hasn't lived in the US long enough at the time: Obama's only claim to citizenship is from his place of birth, not his parentage. Accept he was born in Hawaii and you accept he has indeed held citizenship from birth as required - just like Cruz and McCain.