To: Old Retired Army Guy
John McCain was born on base. It was declared ‘US soil’, thus he is eligible. My son was born in a German hospital. He is not. He was born on foreign soil.
Yes. Children of service members who are born abroad of two US Citizen parents are NOT eligible to be POTUS. (At least that’s what I was told by the US Embassy when my son was born.)
46 posted on
03/09/2013 8:33:31 AM PST by
Marie
("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
To: Marie
“John McCain was born on base...”
No.
John McCain was born OFF-base in a Panamanian hospital. MAJOR DIFFERENCE there.
I believe his parents had to obtain some kind of documentation from the U.S. Embassy at the time to establish his claim to “natural born” citizenship.
That is why there was a bit of a row about it later on, and that’s also why the Senate passed some kind of special resolution re-affirming his claim to be a natural-born citizen.
To: Marie; Old Retired Army Guy
Yes. Children of service members who are born abroad of two US Citizen parents are NOT eligible to be POTUS. (At least thats what I was told by the US Embassy when my son was born.)
I too had this explained to me by a retired military. Children born abroad to U.S. citizens are absolutely "citizens", but not "natural born citizens". They are naturalized-by-statute.
93 posted on
03/09/2013 8:56:20 AM PST by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: Marie
John McCain was born on base. It was declared US soil, thus he is eligible. John McCain was not born on base. This has been posted endlessly and yet we have misinformed posters declare this fallacy again and again. To what purpose?
It really comes down to the notion that just because they did it, we should too. When that happens the Oath to defend and Protect the Constitution become meaningless. I for one will not travel that oh so popular road, now that we have our own clean and articulate ineligible Presidential Candidate.
God Bless the Republic.
249 posted on
03/09/2013 10:06:17 AM PST by
itsahoot
(It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
To: Marie
Actually, McCain wasn’t born on a base. He was born in a Panamanian hospital.
262 posted on
03/09/2013 10:11:54 AM PST by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Marie
John McCain was born on base. It was declared US soil, thus he is eligible. My son was born in a German hospital. He is not. He was born on foreign soil.
Yes. Children of service members who are born abroad of two US Citizen parents are NOT eligible to be POTUS. (At least thats what I was told by the US Embassy when my son was born.)
And yet Congress in 1790 enacted legislation stating those born abroad to U.S. citizens to be "natural born citizens" and, thus, according to the language of the Constitution, eligible to be POTUS.
283 posted on
03/09/2013 10:25:31 AM PST by
aruanan
To: Marie
Yes. Children of service members who are born abroad of two US Citizen parents are NOT eligible to be POTUS. (At least thats what I was told by the US Embassy when my son was born.) Vattel actually says they are.
411 posted on
03/09/2013 12:44:07 PM PST by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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