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It's ba-ack: But eligibility focus is on Cruz

Panel: 'It hasn't worked its way through the courts'

by Bob Unruh 

Eligibility hasn’t been this much in the news since Barack Obama held a White House news conference to reveal a document he said was documentation of his Hawaiian birth several years ago.
But now the focal point is not Obama, and the suspicion he was born outside the United States. It’s not even on the arguments that since the authors of the Constitution specified that presidents be a natural born citizen, they probably meant something other than just citizen, which was used elsewhere in the document.
It’s on Sen. Ted Cruz, a rising star for the GOP and already among the names being mentioned as a possible Oval Office candidate in 2016.
The Blaze recently featured a type of round-table discussion on the issue of Cruz’ birth in Canada to an American mother and foreign father.
The conclusion?
“It hasn’t worked its way through the courts.”
That means there’s no precedent for such a dilemma – unless those concerns about Obama were legitimate, and he would turn out to be a foreign-born son of an American mother and an American father, like Cruz.
Discussion participant Will Cain said the original concern undoubtedly arose from the fact the framers were highly concerned about an outside leader coming to the United States and somehow getting elected.
English common law, participants noted, required citizens to be born on English soil and of an English father.
Participant Buck Sexton said they were worried “a monarch would find a way to buy into an election.”
Others also are raising concerns.
A News 4 report from Jacksonville noted that U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho has promised to back Texas Rep. Steve Stockman’s bill to investigate the president’s birth certificate.
“So I called Steve up when I got back. He says, ‘Yeah, we’re doing it. You want to get on that?’” I says, ‘yeah,’” said Yoho.
And at ThisWeek, a report cites the questions being raised about that issue by Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas.
He said Congress should have investigated Obama’s birth circumstances and eligibility, but it probably it too late to deal with the issue now.
“If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it,” he said. “But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.”
Several others in the House, Reps. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., also recently have raised questions.
Most old-stream media outlets cite the document Obama released as proof positive, and ignore the findings of a law enforcement Cold Case Posse in Arizona that has stated on the record that the document is a fraud.
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