Some other information of Cruz that may be of interest:

"Ted Cruz, who announced his presidential candidacy today, will be the subject of much vitriol in the press. But he won’t receive the epithet most coveted by liberals when they go after conservatives: They can’t say he’s stupid.

“Off the charts brilliant,” is what legendary liberal Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said of his former student in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer a year ago.

Dershowitz had trouble rating another former Harvard student, Barack Obama, who despite multiple attempts couldn’t get into Dershowitz’s class.

“The computer kept him out,” Dershowitz said. “It wasn’t my fault.”

Ahh, the computer.

In the video below, Dershowitz tells Piers Morgan of CNN in 2013 that Cruz was one of the most intelligent students he ever taught:

One of the sharpest students I had . . . I’ve had 10,000 students over my 50 years at Harvard . . . he has to qualify among the brightest of the students.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/03...3blM5B4hsWTM1Od [video at link]

It might be nice to have a smart Pres.

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"@FWP I could write a book about these horrors from the inside.."

So could I.

One of my consulting gigs was for a major telecom that was buying up small Cell companies all over the country. The American CIO had been fired and replaced by a H-1B who proceed to fire most Americans and replace them with cheap 'guest workers' some of whom paid bribes to get the work. Interestingly they hired a bunch of experienced American techies to do the billing work and let them go the SECOND the telecom felt they weren't needed. The so-called brightest and best couldn't handle the work LOL

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Here's an interesting discussion of the topic: Everything you need to know about the Ted Cruz ‘birther’ movement

"Ted Cruz announced Monday that he will run for president in 2016 — a possibility that had been broached as far back as his first few months in the Senate in 2013. And ever since then, there has been an undercurrent of people doubting whether he actually can be president, given that he was born in Canada. Below, we are re-posting a couple items on the controversy, which sounds a lot like the so-called birther claims about President Obama but has one very significant difference..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-...mentrandom_1_na

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“The actions and understandings of the First Congress are particularly persuasive because so many of the Framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress,” Katyal and Clement write. “That is particularly true in this instance, as eight of the eleven members of the committee that proposed the natural born eligibility requirement to the Convention served in the First Congress and none objected to a definition of “natural born Citizen” that included persons born abroad to citizen parentS.”

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“The actions and understandings of the First Congress are particularly persuasive because so many of the Framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress,” Katyal and Clement write. “That is particularly true in this instance, as eight of the eleven members of the committee that proposed the natural born eligibility requirement to the Convention served in the First Congress and none objected to a definition of “natural born Citizen” that included persons born abroad to citizen parentS.”

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Love all of this hair splitting to prove a moot point, but since Cruz's father wasn't an American, did that mean that Ted had to go through the immigration process when he was brought back to the US or was he NATURALLY a citizen because he was BORN by an American CITIZEN? I don't see where you Birthers are showing at what point in time Ted wasn't a US citizen in his life.

Here's something else to chew on: If Ted's mom was a dirty filthy whore and we didn't know who his father was, would that make him ineligible for the office of President?

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“The actions and understandings of the First Congress are particularly persuasive because so many of the Framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress,” Katyal and Clement write. “That is particularly true in this instance, as eight of the eleven members of the committee that proposed the natural born eligibility requirement to the Convention served in the First Congress and none objected to a definition of “natural born Citizen” that included persons born abroad to citizen parentS.”

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Love all of this hair splitting to prove a moot point, but since Cruz's father wasn't an American, did that mean that Ted had to go through the immigration process when he was brought back to the US or was he NATURALLY a citizen because he was BORN by an American CITIZEN? I don't see where you Birthers are showing at what point in time Ted wasn't a US citizen in his life.

Here's something else to chew on: If Ted's mom was a dirty filthy whore and we didn't know who his father was, would that make him ineligible for the office of President?

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As I noted earlier in the thread, I don't argue the issue either way. Been there, done that. Wasted far too many hours to care at this point. None of it matters any longer, the ship has sailed on all of this since the body politic has been moved to the point that virtually anyone is eligible. But it matters even less because it doesn't matter a tinker's damn who "runs" and doesn't. There will never be any person elected to the office that isn't already pre-selected to continue to destroy the Republic. YMMV


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I actually like Ted Cruz, but sadly he is not.

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Only by the machinations of strange blogs and unnamed "experts" REDEFINING words that have already been defined through centuries of accepted law and rulings.

BTW, if Cruz does win the nomination, are you going to refuse to vote for him in the General in effect voting for his Rat opponent? This is basically where this is going to come down because for the most part this Cruz Birtherism is a moot point. No serious people are discussing this aspect of his becoming President.

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Just throwing this out there, I don't know the answer...if there is one.

If it is has been established that a person has "dual citizenship," is that citizenship just as valid as that of a person born in the states of two American citizens? And if one of the citizenships were renounced, again, any difference?

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.........As I noted earlier in the thread, I don't argue the issue either way. Been there, done that. Wasted far too many hours to care at this point. None of it matters any longer, the ship has sailed on all of this since the body politic has been moved to the point that virtually anyone is eligible. But it matters even less because it doesn't matter a tinker's damn who "runs" and doesn't. There will never be any person elected to the office that isn't already pre-selected to continue to destroy the Republic. YMMV

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Sadly I agree.

The electoral process has been so thoroughly corrupted that anyone can vote, the voting machines can be hacked by college students, and as a back up we are moving to vote counting by Scytl, a company located in Spain and run by Globalists.

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I agree also.

I sure like the idea of throwing a monkey wrench into the process though. And, there's always a small chance we might win...

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Just throwing this out there, I don't know the answer...if there is one.

If it is has been established that a person has "dual citizenship," is that citizenship just as valid as that of a person born in the states of two American citizens? And if one of the citizenships were renounced, again, any difference?

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Just for the record on Ted Cruz (useful to combat the ninnies that claim "he hasn't accomplished anything!").

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Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.

Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.

Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court

Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States

Described as a 'superb' constitutional lawyer, the man's considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.

Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.


In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.

Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.

AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School

On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have Obamacare repealed root-and-branch...

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