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Did you know Ted Cruz is a Canadian

#1 Post by macrae1234 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:51 am

Hard to believe the first Hispanic Senator from Texas and Tea Party leader in the Senate is from the great white north
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#2 Post by jarnon » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:59 am

Yep, and John McCain was born in Panama, and George Romney (Mitt's dad and a Presidential candidate himself) was born in Mexico. That helps explain why the GOP didn't make Obama's Kenyan birth a big issue.
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#3 Post by silverscreenselect » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:01 pm

jarnon wrote:Yep, and John McCain was born in Panama, and George Romney (Mitt's dad and a Presidential candidate himself) was born in Mexico. That helps explain why the GOP didn't make Obama's Kenyan birth a big issue.
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#4 Post by macrae1234 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:03 pm

That helps explain why the GOP didn't make Obama's Kenyan birth a big issue.
Well somebody was must have been the Green Party damn rabel rousing, Birkenstock wearing, tree huggers
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#5 Post by macrae1234 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:04 pm

Obama's birth status is a big issue among Tea Partiers many of whom believe he's a deep cover Communist agent
I guess they forgot about Cruz's Castro supporting Cuban Dad
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#6 Post by ontellen » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:07 pm

Yes, we are so proud. :evil:

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#7 Post by littlebeast13 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:26 pm

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#8 Post by christie1111 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:55 pm

I'll say that this is probably the Found it!
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#9 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:28 pm

I know that Senator Cruz has renounced the Canadian part of his dual citizenship recently. Politics aside, it's a tough sell for a potential Presidential candidate to have a second passport, even if they are more American than not.

The true irony I've found with his Canadian birth is that Cruz is staunchly anti-Obamacare/ACA. Nevermind that a government-based health plan (AHCIP) helped him to get onto this planet.
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#10 Post by macrae1234 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:59 pm

damn those mothers who sneak across the border to have their babies born in the government run health care system and get Canadian citizenship
but all kidding aside Cruz's mother would not have been eligible for Canadian health care a popular misconception is that Canadian health care is available free to anyone and it is definitely not. You must be a legal resident or have applied for legal residency. Any visitors foreign nationals working there like Cruz's parents must either have their own private health care or pay. Even me a Canadian born resident for 50 years lost my eligibility for Canadian Health care the month after we left, any time, like tonight, when we travel back to Ottawa we are covered by my US plan with the City or in my case medicare also and if worst comes to worst its a 40 minute drive to Ogdensburg NY. Any Canadian resident (snow bird) cannot stay south more than a total, for all visits and they check, of 182 days or they lose health care and must apply and wait 3 months. I could retun become a resident and in 3 months get health care also.
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#11 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:03 pm

macrae1234 wrote:damn those mothers who sneak across the border to have their babies born in the government run health care system and get Canadian citizenship
but all kidding aside Cruz's mother would not have been eligible for Canadian health care a popular misconception is that Canadian health care is available free to anyone and it is definitely not. You must be a legal resident or have applied for legal residency. Any visitors foreign nationals working there like Cruz's parents must either have their own private health care or pay. Even me a Canadian born resident for 50 years lost my eligibility for Canadian Health care the month after we left, any time, like tonight, when we travel back to Ottawa we are covered by my US plan with the City or in my case medicare also and if worst comes to worst its a 40 minute drive to Ogdensburg NY. Any Canadian resident (snow bird) cannot stay south more than a total, for all visits and they check, of 182 days or they lose health care and must apply and wait 3 months. I could retun become a resident and in 3 months get health care also.
I should have remembered that part (wasn't sure if his mom was a Canadian citizen or not). I remember Judy told me that a lot of the Canadian hockey players that played in Germany would come home during the Christmas break for, among other reasons, just to make sure they didn't have too many days outside of the country so they could keep their insurance (translation - off-season suguries!).
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#12 Post by macrae1234 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:15 pm

I should have remembered that part (wasn't sure if his mom was a Canadian citizen or not).
If mother Canadian and father Cuban born in Canada = not eligible to be president
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#13 Post by silverscreenselect » Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:20 pm

SpacemanSpiff wrote:I know that Senator Cruz has renounced the Canadian part of his dual citizenship recently. Politics aside, it's a tough sell for a potential Presidential candidate to have a second passport, even if they are more American than not.
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#14 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:29 pm

ontellen wrote:Yes, we are so proud. :evil:
You can have him back then.
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#15 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:31 pm

macrae1234 wrote:
I should have remembered that part (wasn't sure if his mom was a Canadian citizen or not).
If mother Canadian and father Cuban born in Canada = not eligible to be president
His mother was a USA citizen. While McCain and Obama qualified as "native born", I'm not sure Cruz does. Pehaps his Republican opponents in a Presidential primary might make a big deal about it but we Democrats hope he wins.
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#16 Post by elwoodblues » Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:00 pm

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#18 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:48 pm

macrae1234 wrote:
I should have remembered that part (wasn't sure if his mom was a Canadian citizen or not).
If mother Canadian and father Cuban born in Canada = not eligible to be president
Good point (unless, of course, she was herself a dual citizen. But I think she wasn't.)

Then again, Cubans are dang near considered automatic US citizens once they hit American soil. The only (unintentional) joke that actually got a response from INS was when Judy asked rhetorically "how can we make this process move faster?" and I said "Tell them you're Cuban." Four out of five agents in earshot actually laughed and nodded in agreement.
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#19 Post by ontellen » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:24 pm

To Bob Juch - We have more than enough idiots in Parliament and especially the senate here. We don't need your castoffs.

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#20 Post by Bob78164 » Sat Oct 12, 2013 2:08 am

ontellen wrote:To Bob Juch - We have more than enough idiots in Parliament and especially the senate here. We don't need your castoffs.
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#22 Post by Jessie » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:25 pm

silverscreenselect wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:I know that Senator Cruz has renounced the Canadian part of his dual citizenship recently. Politics aside, it's a tough sell for a potential Presidential candidate to have a second passport, even if they are more American than not.
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#23 Post by a1mamacat » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:39 pm

you have to be a permanent resident, landed immigrant, or here on a student or work visa to qualify for provincial medical coverage.

You have to physically reside within your home province for 6 months plus 1 day in a calendar year to maintain your coverage.

You don't qualify if you are applying for perm res, only after it is awarded.


and fix the title.. Ted Cruz WAS a Canadian....
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#24 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:10 pm

a1mamacat wrote:you have to be a permanent resident, landed immigrant, or here on a student or work visa to qualify for provincial medical coverage.

You have to physically reside within your home province for 6 months plus 1 day in a calendar year to maintain your coverage.

You don't qualify if you are applying for perm res, only after it is awarded.
Or you have to be Sarah Palin. :mrgreen:
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#25 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:42 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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