Ted Cruz and the hell in America
January 8 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
If Ted Cruz was not born in the United States but in Canada as the words on their rounds are saying, why should he have decided to run for the country's presidency in the first place? Does he think he is capable of making the U.S change its constitution, because he wants to be president? Why cannot he go and run for the president's office in Canada, if indeed he has Canada as his birth place?
What the hell are some news report saying that some people are saying that despite of having been born in Canada that Cruz can still be president of the U.S? Are people out of their minds that they think they can say whatever they like because they have freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution? Yes, people say they know and say anyone can say anything because the constitution has guaranteed freedom of expression, but that the same Constitution says that for anyone to become president, he or she must have been a natural born of the U.S and not in any foreign country? Is Canada no longer a foreign country? What makes the Cruz case different?
This is a position of people who are not versed in he reading of the U.S constitution. But people who are versed in the reading of the Constitution say that though it is true that Canada is Cruz's place of birth, but that he is eligible to run for the presidency here in the U.S because his mother is a citizen of the U.S. , and that a natural born of the U.S include children born outside the U.S, whose either parents is a resident in the U.S.
But one major question that some people are asking is why most of the top politicians running for the number one office in the U.S dogged with the birth place issue? John McCain had been dogged with it. Romney had been dogged with it. President Barack Obama was dogged with it. Obama later produced a Hawaii birth certificate, showing that he has been born in Hawaii. McCain was said to have been born in a military camp outside the country, while his father served in the military; Romney was said to have been in Mexico and now discussion about Cruz sow that he renounced his Canadian citizenship just in 2013.
However, Cruz's father was said to be working with an oil company in Calgary, Canada, when he was given birth by a mother who was an American citizen born in Delaware. Observers say that no matter how the Republican Party and Cruz well wishers try to kill the birth place issue, the matter may still haunt Cruz if he emerges the Republican Party's candidate. They think it would have been better that the controversy does not exist at all.
And one lesson not expressed by people is that with the issue generated by all these birth issues, most American women may be having a change of mind toward ensuring that wherever they are living, the moment they are due to give birth, they will be heading back home.
What the hell are some news report saying that some people are saying that despite of having been born in Canada that Cruz can still be president of the U.S? Are people out of their minds that they think they can say whatever they like because they have freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution? Yes, people say they know and say anyone can say anything because the constitution has guaranteed freedom of expression, but that the same Constitution says that for anyone to become president, he or she must have been a natural born of the U.S and not in any foreign country? Is Canada no longer a foreign country? What makes the Cruz case different?
This is a position of people who are not versed in he reading of the U.S constitution. But people who are versed in the reading of the Constitution say that though it is true that Canada is Cruz's place of birth, but that he is eligible to run for the presidency here in the U.S because his mother is a citizen of the U.S. , and that a natural born of the U.S include children born outside the U.S, whose either parents is a resident in the U.S.
But one major question that some people are asking is why most of the top politicians running for the number one office in the U.S dogged with the birth place issue? John McCain had been dogged with it. Romney had been dogged with it. President Barack Obama was dogged with it. Obama later produced a Hawaii birth certificate, showing that he has been born in Hawaii. McCain was said to have been born in a military camp outside the country, while his father served in the military; Romney was said to have been in Mexico and now discussion about Cruz sow that he renounced his Canadian citizenship just in 2013.
However, Cruz's father was said to be working with an oil company in Calgary, Canada, when he was given birth by a mother who was an American citizen born in Delaware. Observers say that no matter how the Republican Party and Cruz well wishers try to kill the birth place issue, the matter may still haunt Cruz if he emerges the Republican Party's candidate. They think it would have been better that the controversy does not exist at all.
And one lesson not expressed by people is that with the issue generated by all these birth issues, most American women may be having a change of mind toward ensuring that wherever they are living, the moment they are due to give birth, they will be heading back home.
