« Another take on USA Today re: Heller | Main
McCain's constitutional qualifications
Now that it's turned to running down McCain, the NY Times has an article questioning whether he meets the constitutional requirement of being a "natural born" citizen. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, of citizen parents.
Apparently there was a statute passed by the First Congress that included persons such as he among "natural born." I wonder if "natural born" didn't have special meaning then. We still refer to persons who are made citizens after birth as "naturalized," made natural something, rather than made citizens.
· Politics
Comments
Let's see, he was born to U.S. citizen and his father was on U.S. military assignment in Panama when the little tyke was whelped. I'll wager dollars to dogturds that qualifies as "natural born citizen."
There is zero, and I mean ZERO, chance that a reviewing court would find he was disqualified for the Presidency by the circumstances his birth.
And you can take *that* one to the bank.
Posted by: Letalis Maximus, Esq. at February 28, 2008 08:17 PM
I guess the "bombshell" anti-McCain story they ran last week went nowhere? Are they going to crank out one of these each week?
Posted by: Chris at February 28, 2008 08:53 PM
Not only to a father in the US Military but on a military reservation. This is a really big issue....NOT! Here we go with the times again. You can tell it is election time at the funny farm called the NYT...
Mark
Posted by: Mark at February 28, 2008 10:26 PM
Overseas military installations
are sovereign United States territory.
My favorite Uncle was an Air Force Sergeant
in Security Forces at Rhein-Main Air Base.
But we have since given that base back to the
ungrateful Germans not that they care that
we did protect them from the Soviets for 45
years.
Posted by: Marcus Poulin at February 29, 2008 04:29 AM
They don't even try to come up with original BS any more. The same sort of ineligibility story was floated about Barry Goldwater during the 1964 primaries. The supposed problem there was that he was born in Arizona. Of course, Arizona was only a territory then and didn't actually become a state until several years later. To make the echo even more obvious, one of his major opponents in the primaries was the governor of an eastern state and the father of one of McCain's.
Posted by: Ken at February 29, 2008 05:49 AM