YES WE WILL...READ ON... THIS A SNARKY ARTICLE WRITTEN BY AN OBOT...

 Will the Birthers Scrutinize Marco Rubio's U.S. Citizenship?
Roger Fallihee   opensalon.com
If the 2012 campaign to send Barack Obama back to Chicago began the morning after the 2010 midterms, Tea Party superstar and Senator-elect Marco Rubio (D-FL) may be spending a lot of time next year shaking hands and kissing babies in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Marco Rubio:  A citizen of the United States or Cuba?

A more likely Vice Presidential pick, Rubio is the type of candidate who gives Republicans tremendous hope for their future.  He's from the critical swing state of Florida, he's young, articulate, smart, handsome, conservative to the core, and he's a Cuban American. 

When asked if Rubio should seek higher office former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said, "Not only Vice Presidential candidate, but, potentially a Presidential candidate some day."

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliana gushed, "Although this will undoubtedly sound premature to some, I believe that if Marco Rubio goes on to win the U.S. Senate seat in Florida in November, he should immediately think about running for president -- possibly in 2012."

But is the Florida-born Mr. Rubio constitutionally eligible to be elected and sworn in as either President or Vice President of the United States?  [APPARENTLY NOT...IF HIS PARENT WERE CUBAN CITIZENS AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH...THEN NOT ELIGIBLE...SAME SITUATION FOR BOBBY JINDAL...SORRY.]

Not if you believe in one of the "prominent legal arguments" that's been put forth by the anti-Obama birther movement.

Since the case surrounding the validity of Barack Obama's birth certificate was destroyed by the fact that his birth was announced four days after his birthday, in both of the Honolulu daily newspapers, the focus of the bogus dispute shifted to the murky legal area of dual citizenship and exactly what the meaning of "natural born citizen" means.  [GEEZ WHAT SPIN!]

The following legal argument has been circulated by a number of "birthers" including Stephen Tonchen, who as near as I can tell is only known in politics for writing this legal primer.  However, the document is bolstered by a more well-known birther/attorney by the name of Leo Donofrio.

In Minor v. Happersett (1874), the Supreme Court said that, if you were born in the United States and both of your parents were U.S. citizens at the time of your birth, you are, without doubt, a natural born citizen. In the same case, the Supreme Court also said that, if you were born in the United States and one of your parents was not a U.S. citizen when you were born, your natural born citizenship is in doubt.
 
With only two exceptions, every American President, who was born after 1787, was born in the United States, to parents who were both U.S. citizens. The two exceptions were Chester Arthur and Barack Obama. When Chester Arthur ran for office, the public did not know about his eligibility problem. Only recently did historians learn that, when Arthur was born, his father was not a U.S. citizen.
The 2008 election was the first time in history that the United States knowingly elected a President who was born after 1787 and whose parents were not both U.S. citizens.

Barack Obama publicly admits that his father was not a U.S. citizen. [THANK YOU!] According to Minor v. Happersett, there is unresolved doubt as to whether the child of a non-citizen parent is a natural born citizen. This doubt is not based on the imaginings of some tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists on the lunatic of society. 

This doubt comes from what the Supreme Court has actually said, as well as a variety of other historical and legal sources which are presented and discussed here.

So how does this apply to Marco Rubio?

From the U.S. Department of State website: The Government of Cuba does not recognize the U.S. nationality of U.S. citizens who are Cuban-born or are the children of Cuban parents. These individuals will be treated solely as Cuban citizens and may be subject to a range of restrictions and obligations, including military service.

Marco Rubio's parents, the late Mario Rubio and Oria Garcia Rubio, were both born in Cuba.  According to Cuban law that makes Marco Rubio a dual citizen. And according to Stephen Tonchen that raises serious doubts as to his eligibility to seek either the Presidency or the Vice Presidency.

So will the "birthers" go after Mr. Rubio with even a fraction of the zeal that they have shown in their attacks on President Obama?  Or at all? [YES WE WILL...BECAUSE IT'S THE LAW STUPID!]

On the one hand, Marco Rubio is a conservative Republican, so I'd guess that the answer is no.

But on the other hand he's a brown-skinned man, which is one of the major causes of the anti-Obama birthers ire, so anything's possible.

Do I believe that Marco Rubio is a citizen of the United States?  Of course I do. [HEY STUPID THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE...EVEN YOUR ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT RUBIO IS A CITIZEN!...IDIOT!]

Only time will tell if the birthers do.

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