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Title: Worldnetdaily Founder Joseph Farah Promotes Rubio Ineligibility Argument
Source: THE HILL
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... s-rubio-ineligibility-argument
Published: Feb 2, 2012
Author: Alicia M. Cohn
Post Date: 2012-02-02 13:02:22 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 12451
Comments: 33

By Alicia M. Cohn - 02/01/12 01:08 PM ET

Conservative Joseph Farah on Tuesday evening predicted that “10 percent of the Republican vote” would fail to get behind Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as the hypothetical vice presidential nominee because they will believe the circumstances of his birth make him ineligible.

Farah has been one of the most prominent and persistent voices of the so-called “birther” movement, which argues that President Obama is not eligible to be president of the United States due to doubts about his birthplace and the citizenship of his parents.

Farah’s objection to Rubio might serve as a rallying cry to voters convinced that Obama’s presidency is illegal according to the rules set out in the Constitution.

“Rubio is not eligible,” Farah told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “He’ll lose 10 percent of the Republican vote because he is not a natural-born citizen. We’ve been through this with Obama now for four years.”

Rubio was born in Miami in 1971. Farah’s argument against Rubio’s “natural born” status relies on a strict definition also used by Farah and others who raised doubts over Obama’s eligibility. The strict definition requires that both parents be legal citizens at the time of the birth.

Rubio’s parents became naturalized citizens in 1975, but were permanent legal residents of the United States when Rubio was born, according to Rubio’s office. Rubio’s official biography has already been scrutinized, due to questions over the date his parents arrived in the United States as Cuban exiles.

Farah’s website, World Net Daily, is now reporting on the potential controversy under the category “Certifigate.” The website first raised the question in May, but Farah raising the issue in a national television appearance could be a signal of things to come should Rubio appear on the Republican presidential ticket later this year.

“You want to open that can of worms again?” Farah warned.

Last April, Obama released his own long-form birth certificate, which proved his birth in Hawaii, in an effort to silence persistent accusations that he wasn’t born in the United States.

Rubio, who is popular with both conservatives and Hispanic voters, continues to come up as the most likely possibility for the vice presidential slot, and each of the front-runners for the GOP nomination have consistently raised his name as part of their prospective “short list” for vice presidential candidates. Rubio has said he does not expect to be asked to join the ticket, but also maintains he will do anything he can to support the nominee.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Rubio was born in Miami in 1971. Farah’s argument against Rubio’s “natural born” status relies on a strict definition also used by Farah and others who raised doubts over Obama’s eligibility. The strict definition requires that both parents be legal citizens at the time of the birth.

From HERE,

Extending citizenship to non-citizens through birth based solely upon locality is nothing more than mere municipal law that has no extra- territorial effect as proven from the English practice of it. On the other hand, citizenship by descent through the father is natural law and is recognized by all nations (what nation doesn’t recognize citizenship of children born wherever to their own citizens?). Thus, a natural-born citizen is one whose citizenship is recognized by law of nations rather than mere local recognition.

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, James F. Wilson of Iowa, confirmed this in 1866: “We must depend on the general law relating to subjects and citizens recognized by all nations for a definition, and that must lead us to the conclusion that every person born in the United States is a natural-born citizen of such States, except that of children born on our soil to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign Governments.”*

When a child inherits the citizenship of their father, they become a natural- born citizen of the nation their father belongs regardless of where they might be born. It should be pointed out that citizenship through descent of the father was recognized by U.S. Naturalization law whereby children became citizens themselves as soon as their father had become a naturalized citizen, or were born in another country to a citizen father.

Yes, birth is prima facie evidence of citizenship, but only the citizenship of the nation the father is a member.

* Temporary sojourners like transient aliens were a description applied to aliens other than resident aliens. The difference being temporary aliens were here for temporary purposes, such as work, travel, visitation or school, who had no desire to become citizens or was prevented from becoming citizens by law. Resident aliens were those who desired to become citizens and had renounced their prior allegiances and had taken the legal steps to become citizens or reside within some state per state law.

If his parents weren't citizens, than while he may be eligible for VP, he can never assume POTUS. Period.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2012-02-02   13:27:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)

If his parents weren't citizens, than while he may be eligible for VP, he can never assume POTUS. Period.

How does that work, exactly?

What is the main function of the VP?

How can someone be VP if they can't be POTUS.

The answer is, they can't, and, as always, you're totally full of shit.

I won't even bother to comment on the moronic birther blather in this idiotic Farah wet dream.

Skip Intro  posted on  2012-02-02   14:49:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#8. To: Skip Intro, Capitalist Eric (#6)

What is the main function of the VP?

How can someone be VP if they can't be POTUS.

The answer is, they can't, and, as always, you're totally full of shit.

I won't even bother to comment on the moronic birther blather in this idiotic Farah wet dream.

Thinking things out to their logical conclusion is not in Eric's scope of practice.

mininggold  posted on  2012-02-02 15:46:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Skip Intro (#6) (Edited)

How does that work, exactly?

What is the main function of the VP?

How can someone be VP if they can't be POTUS.

The answer is, they can't...

Wow... Your powers of observation are *amazing!*

< /sarc >

as always, you're totally full of shit.

As always, you're a day late and a dollar short. The funny part is, you actually think you said something *intelligent.*

You're just another bozo, who would rather die than think.

Bye, bozo.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2012-02-02 17:01:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Skip Intro (#6) (Edited)

How can someone be VP if they can't be POTUS.

They can't. It's the exact same qualification. The assertion demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge about the Constitution.

jwpegler  posted on  2012-02-02 18:36:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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