Joseph Farah writes in his Aug. 29 WorldNetDaily column:
Two candidates for the job are mentioned over and over again – two wonderful, charismatic public servants whose only problem is they are not constitutionally eligible to be president.
They are Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
Don’t get me wrong. I like both of these guys. If I were eligible to vote in Florida or Louisiana, I would vote to re-elect them. I would support either one for almost any job in America. But there is one job for which they are, by chance of birth, 100 percent, totally and inarguably ineligible to hold office – and that is the presidency of the United States.
Why?
Because both are sons of parents who were not U.S. citizens when they were born.
It’s just that simple. To be a natural born citizen means to be the offspring of U.S. citizen parents at the time of birth.
Farah is misleading. As he surely knows, the Constitution contains no definition of “natural born citizen,” and and no U.S. court has explicitly defined the term as it applies to presidential eligibility.
Thus, Farah’s claim that Rubio and Jindal — and, by extension, Barack Obama — are “totally and inarguably ineligible” because they are “sons of parents who were not U.S. citizens when they were born” is merely an opinion expressed by a non-lawyer, not the undisputed fact he portrays it as.
Which means WND is misinforming its readers again. Anyone surprised?