Is Joe Biden too Irish to be President of the United States?

Or…

Official Portrait of the 46th President of the United States, from Wikimedia Commons

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America’s Constitution requires two qualifications for America’s president: age 35 and being born an American citizen.

It also prohibits any religious test for public office.

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Was James Buchanan too unmarried?

Was Abraham Lincoln too unchurched?

Was Teddy Roosevelt too young?

Was Franklin Roosevelt too disabled?

Was Harry Truman too uneducated?

Was Dwight Eisenhower too martial?

Was John Kennedy too Catholic?

Was Jimmy Carter too born again?

Was Bernie Sanders, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, Tom Steyer, and Michael Bloomberg (Democratic Party Candidates in 2020) too Jewish?

Was Mitt Romney too Mormon?

Was Barack Obama too Black or not Black enough?

Is Cabinet Member Pete Buttigieg too: gay, married, and fatherly?

Is Vice President Kamala Harris too: female, Black, Asian, and childless?

Is candidate Nikki Haley too Indian?

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Is President Biden too Irish?

Catholic?

Old?

And neither was Donald Trump.

Happy President’s Day.

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