John Sydney McCain was born in a public hospital in the city of Colon, Republic of Panama (as per the birth certificate posted on his internet site during the campaign). He was born on foreign soil. Because his parents were both U.S. citizens he has always been considered a native born citizen. But he is ineligible to be President.
This lack of eligibility is why he was pushed by Democrat cross-over voters early in the primary, so the Republicans couldn’t challenge Obama later on the natural born citizen issue.
Diabolical, wasn’t it?
What was diabolical was that the two "Birth Certificates" posted are most likely fakes. BTW, he did not post them on his campaign website. The "short form" was provided by the other party in the lawsuit "Hollander vs McCain", it's pretty questionable, because of three different type fonts in the filled in fields, among other things. The "long form" is so obviously a fake, no one would rely on it. A judge would laugh it out of court. One example is that the child's name, at first glance appears to be typed over a line, but the line does not show under/between the letters, as it would if it had been typed onto the form in 1936. It's not even signed in the appropriate places.