It's Hardly a Loophole

The requirement that a presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen is hardly a loophole, it's in the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5. I think they put it in there to prevent some Englishman from becoming president, which is understandable considering they had recently fought a war with England. That shouldn't be a concern today, so maybe it should be changed, but the only way it can be changed is by a constitutional amendment, and nobody seems interested in doing that. The same paragraph also requires that the president must be at least 35 year old, so it seems reasonable that a candidate should be required to show his birth certificate to somebody before he can even file his candidacy. That, however, is not in the constitution or anywhere else in the law, it seems like the Founding Fathers overlooked that detail. It's never really been an issue until Obama ran for president, but it's bound to come up again someday, so it should be written into the law, but nobody seems interested in doing that either. The issue with Cruz is whether or not a person born to an American mother while she is staying in a foreign country qualifies as a natural born citizen. He is a citizen to be sure, but is he a natural born citizen? Now that's a loophole, and it shouldn't take a lawsuit to close it up. All they need to do is pass a law, or amend the current law, to clarify that one point, but nobody seems interested in doing that either.

Speaking of Cruz, isn't he Hispanic, and Rubio too? I have seen their photos, and they both look White to me. Neither Hispanic nor Mexican is a race, they are both nationalities. I can't speak for the rest of my ilk, but my main concern is the illegal immigrants, no matter what their race or nationalities might be. The common perception is that almost all of the illegals are Hispanic, but that might be because they are the ones that seem to make the news a lot. I would also be concerned if millions of people moved into my neighborhood and surrounded me, especially, but not exclusively, if they spoke a different language and had different social customs that set them apart from my other neighbors. I think that most people would. You have said that you have some colored people in your building and you don't have a problem with it. But if they were all colored, and you were the only English speaking White guy in the building, wouldn't that make you a little nervous?

I don't know much about any of the Supreme Court justices, but I understand that Scalia was considered to be a conservative. I think the concern is that, if a liberal judge takes his place, the balance of the court will tip to the left. I agree with you, however, that the Senate should hold hearings and vote on it. The next time there's a vacancy, we might have a Republican president and a Democratic senate, that's the way it goes in the United States of America. I generally don't approve of the way Congress bottles up bills in committee until they expire at the end of the session. They should either vote it in or vote it out, and go on to the next item on the agenda.

I found a thing about Trump on Wiki over the weekend. I wasn't aware that this possibility had occurred to anybody else, but remember that you heard it first from Talks With Beagles.

False flag conspiracy theory[edit]

A conspiracy theory appearing in the Washington Post, Salon, Esquire, Gawker, Talking Points Memo and several other political news outlets, and which has been endorsed by several of Trump's opponents, posits that Trump is running a "false flag operation" for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. According to this theory, Trump intends to help her secure the presidency by obtaining the Republican nomination, or running as a third party candidate, which Trump was initially reluctant to rule out, but eventually did.^{[191][192][193][194][195][196][197]}