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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccording to 30 Rock, if you are born in Canada you cannot be President.
In the episode 'Double-Edged Sword,' Jack Donaghy and his wife are stuck in Canada, when she goes into labor:
Avery: Oh my God, Jack. If our child is born here she can't be President!
Jack: Don't even say it! We're having an American, and she WILL be President, no matter how ridiculous that sentence sounds.
Avery: If only we were in Kenya right now, we'd be fine. (laughs with Jack, then gasps and starts choking him)
Jack: (strangled) If this is helping you, I'm fine.
If 30 Rock says so, that's good enough for me.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)That same line was used in The King of Queens at least a decade ago.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...can't argue with the 'facts' laid out by a popular TV show.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...always wanted to be a divorce lawyer like Arnie Becker from LA Law.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)FDR's birthplace ?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)mitchtv
(17,718 posts)some canadian island I think
tridim
(45,358 posts)Good show.
@ "We're having an American, and she WILL be President, no matter how ridiculous that sentence sounds."
Cleita
(75,480 posts)President although I traveled on an American passport and had an official document that declared me as citizen from birth. Yet because I was not born on US soil, a judge who specialized in immigration and naturalization told my parents this. I don't think Cruz can be President either unless IOKIYAR applies here.
Foolacious
(497 posts)You are an American citizen from birth. Therefore, a natural-born American citizen. Therefore eligible to be president once you reach 35 years of age and have been resident in the US for a certain (rather significant) span of time.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)a roomful of American kids born overseas to American parents. Now,what are your credentials? There are exceptions like being born in an embassy or army base, but for those of us who weren't we had a sort of second class citizenship that barred us from the Presidency.
Therefore if Ted Cruz is allowed to run for President, our system is truly corrupted.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Kenneth: Well I was always taught that choosing is a sin. During elections I can't pick democrat or republican. I always pick the Lord's side.
Jack: No Kenneth those are republican. We count those.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope it's true. His voice disturbs me. I couldn't listen to it for four years.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I mean, can you imagine? I can't stop shuddering...
Recursion
(56,582 posts)is still a "natural born citizen". So, even if he had been born in Kenya it wouldn't have mattered.
madville
(7,397 posts)She would have had to be 19 or 20 or something for him to have automatic citizenship if born outside the US at that time.