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Coyotl

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9. Unlike That Awful Negro, Conservatives Know Where Ted Cruz Comes From.
Tue Feb 25, 2014, 07:39 PM
Feb 2014

"... Canada is not really foreign soil ...."

Unlike That Awful Negro, Conservatives Know Where Ted Cruz Comes From.
http://macklyons.blogspot.com/2013/08/unlike-that-awful-negro-conservatives.html

When Democrat Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, Republican voter Christina Katok of Walden said she believed he was ineligible for the job.

She reasoned that he was born in Kenya and therefore wasn’t a “natural born” American — one of a handful of constitutional requirements for the job. (Obama's birth certificate shows that he was born in Hawaii, but some critics do not accept that as fact.)

Fast forward six years and another freshman U.S. senator, Canadian-born Tea Party firebrand Ted Cruz of Texas, is being mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. But Katok, who would vote for Cruz in a heartbeat, doesn’t have any concerns about his eligibility.

“As far as I’m concerned, Canada is not really foreign soil,” she said. ...........


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