[aruanan]

McCain was not born on base. The base hospital was still under construction.

He was born in a Panamanian hospital on Panama soil.

Not according to his mother. Besides, the Panama Canal Zone was U.S. territory. Persons born of two U.S. citizens in the Canal Zone were granted statutory U.S. citizenship at birth under the Naturalization Act of 1795. In 1905, the Supreme Court ruled that since the Canal Zone was unincorporated territory, those children born there to two U.S. citizens only became U.S. nationals, not citizens, Later, though, in 1937, Congress reversed the Supreme Court's 1905 ruling by passing legislation that granted both statutory and declaratory born citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone after February 26, 1904 to at least one U.S. citizen parent and did so retroactively to all children born of at least one U.S. citizen in the Canal Zone. John McCain was born in the Canal Zone.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

John McCain was born in the Canal Zone.

But he was still a Colon-birth.

[Spaulding]

"...statutory and declaratory born citizenship to those born in the Canal Zone after February 26, 1904 to at least one U.S. citizen parent and did so retroactively to all children born of at least one U.S. citizen in the Canal Zone. John McCain was born in the Canal Zone."

Sounds good aruanan, but a congressionally declared “born citizen” is a citizen by the 14th Amendment, a naturalized citizen. That is bit of misdirection deployed by Obama’s comrades on his web site; Obama describes himself as “A native-born citizen of the US”. We won't question his birth somewhere on US soil, so he is born a citizen “jus soli”, of the soil. He is a born “citizen”, not a “natural born citizen”. The last time the Supreme Court issued an interpretation of NBC was 1875 in Minor v. Happersett. That doesn't mean that they couldn't do so. It doesn't mean that they couldn't ignore precedence. But they haven't yet reinterpreted Minor v. Happersett.