A Logical Exercise for Orly Taitz [View all]

[kpete]

A) Barack Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, which is in the United States.
A) Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, which is not in the United States.

B) Barack Obama's mother was born in Kansas, which is in the United States.
B) Ted Cruz's mother was born in Delaware, which is in the United States.

C) Barack Obama's father was born in Kenya.
C) Ted Cruz's father was born in Cuba.

D) Barack Obama is eligible to be president because he was born in the United States, and because his mother was born in the United States.
D) Ted Cruz is eligible to be president because his mother was born in the United States.

Both men are allowed by the Constitution and convention to be president. However, if there is any question on the matter of what natural-born means in the Constitution, Obama clearly has a stronger case then Cruz. And if Cruz is qualified to be president because his mother was born in Delaware, then Obama must be qualified because his mother was born in Kansas, and this would be true even if Obama was really born in Kenya.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/8/7/221732/4245