{"id":182056,"date":"2016-01-06T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/06\/excessive-schadenfreude-may-cause-dizziness-euphoria-and-a-sense-of-smug-satisfaction\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:21:00","slug":"excessive-schadenfreude-may-cause-dizziness-euphoria-and-a-sense-of-smug-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/06\/excessive-schadenfreude-may-cause-dizziness-euphoria-and-a-sense-of-smug-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Excessive Schadenfreude May Cause Dizziness, Euphoria, and a Sense of Smug Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jan\/05\/donald-trump-birther-republican-ted-cruz\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/ann-coulter-ted-cruz-birtherism\">Ann Coulter<\/a> have gone birther on Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Donald:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Donald Trump cast doubt on Republican candidate Ted Cruz\u2019s eligibility for the presidency on Tuesday, on the basis that he may not be a natural-born US citizen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump said the fact that Cruz was born in Canada was a \u201cvery precarious one for Republicans because he\u2019d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don\u2019t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Republican frontrunner went on to claim a \u201clot of people are talking about \u2026 the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cruz, whose campaign declined to comment, was born in Calgary in 1971. Although his father Rafael was not an American citizen at the time, his Delaware-born mother, Eleanor, was. Article II of the US constitution requires that \u201cno person except a natural born Citizen \u2026 shall be eligible to the Office of President.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from the Dennis Rodman of Republican spokesbimbos, we have: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who once dismissed birthers as &#8220;cranks,&#8221; suggested Wednesday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may be ineligible for the presidency because he is not a \u201cnatural born citizen.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a series of tweets, Coulter, an ardent anti-immigration advocate, suggested that Cruz was not a &#8220;natural born citizen,&#8221; a requirement to run for President outlined in the Constitution:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now both Donald Trump and Ann Coulter have gone birther on Ted Cruz. First, the Donald: Donald Trump cast doubt on Republican candidate Ted Cruz\u2019s eligibility for the presidency on Tuesday, on the basis that he may not be a natural-born US citizen.In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump said the fact that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097,977,1019,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}