Donald Trump says Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth “could be a difficult problem” for 2016 bid

[TexasTowelie]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Billionaire Donald Trump, the most prominent “birther” to question Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, asserted Friday that Sen. Ted Cruz must clear up legal doubts about his own eligibility due to his birth outside the United States.

“It’s a problem. It could be a difficult problem, but he admits that he was born in Canada,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on the eve of the first major gathering of 2016 presidential hopefuls.

“He’s a friend of mine. I have great respect for him. But …certainly it’s a stumbling block and he’s going to have to have it solved before he goes too far,” Trump said.

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on Dec. 22, 1970, while his parents worked in the Canadian oil patch. His mother is a native-born American. His father, a Cuban émigré who later became a naturalized American, was still a Cuban citizen at the time.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/donald-trump-says-ted-cruzs-canadian-birth-could-be-a-difficult-problem-for-2016-bid.html/

[sharp_stick]

1. No shit

you birther piece of shit.

My Mother may have delivered that asshole into the world based on his history and she isn't too thrilled about that possibility.

[Historic NY]

2. Gifts that keep on giving...

Truther Trump.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Trump is an asset to us.

He is going to highlight the flaws of every Thug running.

[Monk06]

4. So Obama being born in Indonesia,Kenya (which he wasn't) disqualifies him for the presidency but

Cruz being born in Canada (which he was) doesn't.

At birth even the Canadian government recognized him as a citizen. He has a Canadian birth certificate not an American one. He was also never, to my knowledge, naturalized.

So he is in fact an illegal alien, the very thing the birthers accuse Obama of being.

This whole natural born citizen thing is a perverse joke. The rest of the world laughs at this dumbass hyper nationalism.

But take heart Japan's citizenship laws are even more jingoistic.

[Ptah]

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Personal_life

In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship, and ceased to be a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014.

[Monk06]

6. I was mimicking the birther argument. Although is he an American because his mother is American?

That seems to be the actual standard from what I understand from all this birther nonsense.

[Ptah]

7. "Although is he an American because his mother is American?"

Is this more mimicking?

[yellowcanine]

8. Canadian birth certificate. So what. It is not the birth certificate which matters.

It is the nationality of the parents - at least one of whom needs to be an American citizen. The mother was. So he is a "natural born" American citizen. Whether it is a "joke" or not has nothing to do with it.

[Monk06]

10. Being a joke has everything to do with being a joke. Don't they teach irony in the US?

[yellowcanine]

13. "Just a joke" doesn't cut it. Too many dumb ideas masquerade as jokes. Take Donald Trump,

for example. He is a joke but gets taken seriously by way too many people.

[Monk06]

14. Usually when someone says, "Wow what a funny joke.", I don't immediately reply, "What a great idea"

[DFW]

9. "SOLVE" it? How?

Trump wants to annex Alberta, so that Calgary can be US territory?

Uh-oh. Better not give him any ideas..............

[Monk06]

11. Nobody listens to Birther Elvis anymore. Thank god.

[DFW]

12. Everyone will listen to Trump if he torpedoes any potential run by Cruz for this reason

Who would run from a good old fashioned public display of cannibalism?

[Thinkingabout]

15. I think John McCain had to fill out some paper work because he was born to

American parents he was not born in the USA. It really wasn't a problem for McCain but in Obama's case he was born on US soil to an American.

[brooklynite]

16. I understand he's sending an investigative team to Calgary...