WATCH: How Do New Yorkers Respond To Idea Of Bibi Netanyahu As US President?

With Hillary Clinton ill and Donald Trump building a wall, Asaf Liberman of Israel’s Galatz radio network asks New Yorkers what they think of the idea of Binyamin Netanyahu as President of the United States.

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10 thoughts on “WATCH: How Do New Yorkers Respond To Idea Of Bibi Netanyahu As US President?”

  1. He’s too late to get on any ballot of the 50 states. Bibi could still run as a write-in candidate, but his last name is too long and too hard to spell for us Americans. Of course, he’d have to produce a birth certificate first.

    1. I’ve never understood that rule – I thought that you had to be born in the U.S. to be eligible to run for president, but Ted Cruz was born in Canada and only one of his parents was a U.S. citizen. So, then I read that at least one parent had to be a U.S. citizen, or the candidate themselves has to be born in the U.S., but then what’s the problem with Obama? He had a parent who was born in the U.S..

      1. In Obama’s case, because he was born in the U.S. (Hawaii), he automatically is a natural-born American citizen. Ted Cruz’s situation is more complicated, but most constitutional scholars have agreed that because his mother is an American citizen and that somehow their status in Canada was not considered to be a permanent one (don’t ask me details, it’s complicated), he is a natural-born American citizen as well. Bibi, of course, is not a natural-born American citizen because he was born in Israel to parents who did not hold American citizenship.

        1. I meant all of this business with people saying Obama had lied about being born in US, or that his birth certificate wasn’t real etc, even if that were true, why wouldn’t he be considered a naturalised citizen like Cruz? I know Bibi isn’t a contender.

          1. It is unconstitutional for a naturalized citizen to become president of the United States. You have to be a natural-born citizen to be eligible under our constitution.

            1. Sorry, I meant “natural-born”. If the definition of “natural-born” can include born to American citizen but outside of US, like for Ted Cruz, why all the fuss with questioning Obama’s birth place?

              1. Good question, Inessa. I suspect most birthers, like Donald Trump, actually believe you have to be born in the United States to American parents to be considered to be a “natural-born citizen” and therefore, eligible to become president of the United States. Obviously employees of the American government posted in foreign countries who produce children while overseas confer American citizenship to their children. This is one more example of natural-born American citizenship.

                1. Ok. but that’s why I’m confused. If you don’t have to be born in the U.S., but you just have to be born a U.S. citizen, like Ted Cruz, wouldn’t that mean that even if Obama had not been born in the U.S., he would still be a U.S. citizen because he would be born to a U.S. citizen mother, who also was not a citizen of another country? Or was the rule that you have to be born in the U.S., and was it somehow modified?

  2. Norman_In_New_York

    At this point, Bibi is the effective leader of the free world now that Obama and other Western statesmen have, to all intents and purposes, abdicated.

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