as "American soil." So yes, he qualified, too.

I'm just at a loss - watching the coverage this morning - and NOBODY is bringing up this point. And seems to me it's still a point that needs to be brought up!

And Ahnold could run for Governor. And he did. And he ran our state directly into the ground. Took another Democrat to pull us back out of that abyss of red ink.

You can run for pretty much ANYTHING as ANY non-American nationality - EXCEPT the Presidency.

I realize the GOP sees rules as not applying to them. But the rules are STILL THERE.

Why should we make an exception for ted cruz? And he wasn't even born on US soil. Canada is NOT the US. Anymore than Cuba is.

And Barack Obama was born ON AMERICAN SOIL. ted cruz was NOT. Unless you consider Canada to be part of American soil. Last I looked, Canada was its own separate sovereign country. As NOT-America as you can get, and I'm sure ANY Canadian would agree with that.

Last I looked, Hawaii became a state, our 50th, before Barack Obama was even a twinkle in his parents' eyes.

That's MY governor, too. Past and current. It was a pleasure voting for him back then, and it was just as big a pleasure (no, actually, I take that back - it was a BIGGER pleasure) to vote for him again more recently.

Panama can be argued as an American possession or territory, so mccain skates through on a technicality. I remember that, too. The canal district was technically American soil when he was born there. I think it isn't considered American soil anymore since Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal back to the Panamanians - who are, themselves, citizens of their own separate sovereign country if I'm not mistaken.

Shit - I remember this guy Ray Briem, talk show host on one of the then-powerful and influential AM talk stations in L.A. (KABC-AM). He was the overnight guy, and he was a right-wing crank back when everybody laughed at talk show hosts like him. Ray Briem's signature sign-off was "Don't Give Up the Panama Canal!" He'd say that at the end of every show, after he signed off by name. "I'm Ray Briem. Don't Give Up the Panama Canal!" Every night/morning.

Those were the days. When whack jobs like him got the reaction they deserved - snickers and scoffs and lots of eyeball-rolling. Now, they're paid king's ransoms and feted to the stars at the NAB Conventions and on Bill Maher's show and they have their own cable network (Pox Noise) and they're all big-time and taken very seriously. But back then, in the 70s, they were laughed at. ALL of them subjects of broad based derision and ridicule. Now they're hailed as heroes and patriots and one of 'em just announced on this very morning that he's running for President.

This one applies directly to SOOOOOOO many things, in SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many places and situations!!!

NOBODY's even brought it up. Er - uh - folks - um, this one's a non-starter. This guy doesn't even qualify. He wasn't US-born.

Bullshit straight off the starting block.

But we knew that already.

SAME RESTRICTIONS APPLY.