'Birthers' begin to turn on allies

[babylonsister]

:spray:

Dana Milbank | 'Birthers' begin to turn on allies
7:31 PM, Oct. 23, 2011 |

Dana Milbank


WASHINGTON — Say what you will about the birthers, but don't call them partisan.

The people who brought you the Barack Obama birth-certificate hullabaloo now have a new target: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a man many people think could be the Republican vice presidential nominee. While they're at it, they also have Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana and perhaps a future presidential candidate, in their sights.

Each man, the birthers say, is ineligible to be president because he runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that a president must be a “natural-born citizen” of the United States. Rubio's parents were Cuban nationals at the time of his birth, and Jindal's parents were citizens of India.

When I heard of the birthers' latest targets, from a comment this week from a washingtonpost.com reader in my online chat, I figured it was a joke. But, sure enough, Alex Leary of the St. Petersburg Times reported that various bright lights of the birther community — Mario Apuzzo, Charles Kerchner, Orly Taitz and Alan Keyes — were casting doubt on Rubio's eligibility.

“Sen. Marco Rubio is not a natural-born citizen of the United States to constitutional standards,” Kerchner writes in his blog. “He was born a dual citizen of both Cuba and the U.S.A. He is thus not eligible to serve as the president or vice president.” A few months ago, Kerchner used the same logic to proclaim that “Jindal is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States. His parents were not U.S. citizens when he was born.”

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[Turbineguy]

1. But I would think

That Rubio's and Jindal's lack of qualifications would overcome any objections the Birthers might have.

[FSogol]

2. But they are not racist.

:rofl:

[ehrnst]

5. Of course not. Herman Cain's colored, right? And he supports everything that

the baggers about the rest of the coloreds...

:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

3. dual citizen of the U.S. AND Cuba?

I didn't know there were "halfunists" ... Half communists ...

[damonm]

6. These would be known as "pinkos" back in the day. n/t

[Politicalboi]

4. So the Founding Fathers parents

Were American citizens. Who knew. LOL!

[jberryhill]

7. The clause didn't apply to anyone who was a citizen at the time the Constitution was adopted

The birthers have their heads up their asses, but someone brings this same irrelevant point up in just about every thread:

"No 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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

At the time the Constitution was adopted, there was no 35 year old who was born in the United States since, duh, the United States had not been around for 35 years.

They weren't that dumb.

Of course, there is no currently living person to whom the clause applies, and I think the last president to qualify under that clause was Van Buren (off the top of my head).