[David]

The Democrats did that to protect Obama from criticism pertaining to his eligibility status. If the GOP candidate wasn’t a “Natural Born Citizen”, how could the Republican’s complain about Obama? (I believe Obama was born in Kenya.) McCain was born in Panama. It was NEVER a U.S. territory. John Sydney McCain III is a U.S. citizen by statute because his parents were U.S. citizens (jus sanguinas - ‘by blood’). Our statutes covering citizenship include sections pertaining to children of U.S. citizens born in Panama. The GOP’s candidate couldn’t be any more eligible to be president than Obama. That is why I believe Soros donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to McCain’s The Reform Institute. It all makes me wonder if McCain was bought by the progressives. His Reform Institute sure reads like he is one of them!

Exactly what I think happened for exactly that reason.

There is a minor problem with your Citizen conclusion with respect to McCain--the statute under which that would have made him a citizen on that theory was adopted three years after his birth and was not retroactive by its terms. He may have gotten there by other methods.

McCain votes like a Liberal--how he got there is not completely clear. And at present, he is obviously running well to the right of his voting record.

[Beckwith]

Not retroactive?

You clearly didn't read the statute:

Sec. 303. [8 U.S.C. 1403] Persons born in the Canal Zone or the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904

(b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this Act, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Company, or its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United States.

On or after February 26, 1904.

And that statute is a statute, not a theory.