He was born in the US military hospital in the Canal Zone, which was administered and run by the US government until the late 1990s.
I mjst have been having a dozen senior moments. Do you have a source. I posted the url and wiki says the same thing.
If true, I stand corrected.
“He was born in the US military hospital in the Canal Zone, which was administered and run by the US government until the late 1990s.”
The only publicly available John McCain birth certificate states he was born in the Colon Hospital, Colon, R.P. (Republic of Panama). This purported birth certificate was made public by Fred Hollander in his 2008 lawsuit. John McCain claims to have privately revealed his genuine birth certificate to a single news reporter, and this reporter claims the birth certificate listed the birthplace as the U.S. Navy Hospital, Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Canal Zone. So, the actual birthplace of John McCain has never been released to the public, unless the birth certificate supplied by Fred Hollander happens to be a true and accurate copy of John McCain’s real birth certificate. If so, then John McCain was born in Panama and not inside the unincorporated territory of the U.S. Canal Zone. If John McCain was born at the U.S. Navy Hospital, Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Canal Zone; John McCain will still have been born outside the jurisdiction of the United States required to qualify for natural born citizenship. Instead, John McCain acquired U.S. citizenship by automatic naturalization at birth under the authority of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Acts.
Yes, no supporter of the man here, but fair enough.
Born on American soil to parents who are citizens of the US, either by birth or naturalization.
John McCain is a Natural Born Citizen because there is no possibility of him being anything else. Simple. I learned that here at FR; no reason to make anything any more complicated out of it than that.