With the number of immigrants we’ve had in the last 30 years, this question is going to come up again and again – and will turn into an ugly race fight.

Wait until Bobby Jindal wants to run for president (and he will run, and be a very strong candidate), and this vague flaw in the Constitution blows up in everyone’s face.

We don’t need this turmoil. Time for the Supremes to do their job and settle it.

And it’s really messed up that you just know they are scared to death to rule on it before 0bama is out of office – whether it’s 2013 or 2017. Because if he wins in 2012, you know they’re not going to throw him out in 2014.

So 0bama gets a pass on his eligibility, or lack thereof, just like he’s gotten a pass on everything else in his whole life. And then they’ll hang Jindal high and dry.

And when they do, a lot of the country will want to see everything 0bama signed ruled null and void.

What a messed-up ticking time-bomb this is.

Sure, but staying in Cuba and getting rich under Batista wouldn’t have been much better in my book. The man was a typical Banana Republic thug.

Actually , Batiata wasn’t all that bad compared to his predecessorr,Carlos Prío Socarrás. That was a piece of work!

katy the mean old lady on October 21, 2011 at 5:13 PM

And since the Cuban people seem to have preferred Batista to Socarras, I’d say you were right.

What I’m thinking is, is that a thug is a thug. The Cuban people have never enjoyed a truly democratic form of government, real freedoms, nor (for most of them) economic opportunities under a free enterprise system.

Some might say that it is not right, or logical, for an American to view a foreign country through the American prism, but from what I’ve been able to gather the Cuban people have been pretty darn miserable for over 100 years now. So I like many others will continue to hope that that the Cuban people will have a decent representative government, due process, freedom and economic opportunities for themselves an their children.

I am far from being a fan of Castro, but I think we on the right have a tendency to support, excuse, or ignore dictators as long as they aren’t socialists or communists.

The Rubio hit was either an early takedown of their most feared next election presidential candidate (2016) or….it’s a “pre-emptive-just in case” takedown now, for fear that a angry teaparty constituancy -refusing to settle for the GOPs array of empty choices (except for RINOs and blatent incompetents)will elect him by acclaimation at the convention.

The left has a history of substituting (the placeholder resigns at the last minute)their real candidates at the last minute-avoiding the other side’s lengthy criticisms and vetting. The WaPo might just figure -what if they do it too?

In either case -the world knows the WaPo isn’t just doing journalism -it’s a hit piece. Why the GOP doesn’t bare its fangs and take them (MSM) out for this and refuse to deal with them at all -call them what they are-America’s covert enemy, not its protectors, I once didn’t know -now I do. They don’t want to fight -the want to be a staus quo buffer against true competition and political reform arising.

having had large spending measured shot down by frist was another

EricPWJohnson on October 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM

Um. . . how did that happen if Frist left the Senate in 2007?

Let’s remember Hillary claimed to have been named for Sir Edmund who became famous after she was born.

Disturb the Universe on October 21, 2011 at 6:50 PM

I’ll give her some slack on that. After all, she was probably watching one of those NY Yankee games that aired locally in Chicago, in the 1950s.

Any word on the interview with Obama’s coke dealer from high school?

And, there was never a distinction made by or between the two or by us American families either. There was a great deal of uncertainty (and violence) in Cuba in the years leading up to the Revolution, causing a number of them to flee, like Rubio’s family, to the USA. Technically, however, they weren’t political “exiles” then, but as soon as Castro took full control and turned Cuba into a communist totalitarian country, the Cubanos in America became “exiles”. If they had gone back they could’ve been killed, imprisoned, and their children taken from them, or all of the above.

Moreover, that distinction is still not made. One of my businesses, which I started years after moving back to Texas, is HQ’d in Miami. More than half of our large workforce are Americans of Cuban descent, having parents or grandparents that came to the states both before and after Castro. To a man and woman, they consider their parents and grandparents political exiles, which they were an still are.

The WaPo owes Rubio and his family and, indeed, all the Cuban-American families an apology for this half-a$$ed research that a couple of phone calls to Miami could’ve easily provided them with the truth. Then again, it is the WaPo we’re talking about here.

Ed
Rubio had/had a CONSTANT honesty problem, his parent didnt flee communism as he had stated mny times, many times in his earlier races – I’m not defending the WaPo but I’ve been on the record that Rubio has serious problems – lying being one of them – having had large spending measured shot down by frist was another
EricPWJohnson on October 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM

I dunno about a constant honesty problem, but it is a tad embarrassing when it’s the WaPo that’s correcting the dates in your family story. It’s not Luke Skywalker finding out Darth Vader is his Pa, but still.

You’re obviously a “57 Stater”.

landlines on October 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM

Grow up, child.

Truth will set you free.