According to 30 Rock, if you are born in Canada you cannot be President.

[onehandle]

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]

1. It's not even an original story line.

That same line was used in The King of Queens at least a decade ago.

[Bay Boy]

2. Well, I guess that settles it then...

...can't argue with the 'facts' laid out by a popular TV show.

[Shrike47]

7. That's how I studied law. TV, talk radio...

[Bay Boy]

8. Me too....

...always wanted to be a divorce lawyer like Arnie Becker from LA Law.

[mitchtv]

3. wasn't there some controversy about

FDR's birthplace ?

[Shrike47]

6. No. His son, FDR Jr., was born in Canada and people confuse the two.

[mitchtv]

12. thx shrike47

some canadian island I think

[tridim]

4. I just started watching 30 Rock on reruns, and it's much more clever than I thought.

Good show.

@ "We're having an American, and she WILL be President, no matter how ridiculous that sentence sounds."

[Cleita]

5. I was born in Chile of American parents and I was told I couldn't be

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]

13. Whoever told you that was wrong.

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]

16. A judge who was a lawyer who specialized in this type of law told me and

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]

9. I always like this exchange:

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]

10. Great episode.

I hope it's true. His voice disturbs me. I couldn't listen to it for four years.

[Marie Marie]

11. Regardless, Ted Cruz Can't be President because he is an a**hole!

I mean, can you imagine? I can't stop shuddering...

[Recursion]

14. The thing I still don't get about birtherism is that someone born to an American travelling abroad

is still a "natural born citizen". So, even if he had been born in Kenya it wouldn't have mattered.

[madville]

15. Their argument was his mom was not old enough

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.