[GQuagmire]

That’s what I thought but I think the door was kicked open when Congress ok’ed McCain when he ran in 2008.

[pfflier]

McCain was born on a US military installation overseas while his father was serving on active duty there.

[suthener]

“That’s what I thought but I think the door was kicked open when Congress ok’ed McCain when he ran in 2008.”

You think Mccain was not a natural born citizen because when he was born his father, a U.S. Navy admiral, and his mother, a U.S. citizen, were on military orders to a foreign country?

[Robert DeLong]

Not even in the same ballpark. The comparison of the two is like saying day and night are the same. First off he was born at Portland Hospital in London at 5.26am. His father is a member of the British Royal family. At best if his parents both obtain American citizenship is that he becomes a naturalized citizen. In no way can he ever be considered a natural born citizen. Thus, he is not eligible to become president or even vice president.

[Albion Wilde]

That’s what I thought but I think the door was kicked open when Congress ok’ed McCain when he ran in 2008.

But weren't McCain's parents both Americans, and his father serving the U.S. military in Panama? As opposed to Obie, whose father was British Kenyan, and his place of birth in dispute.

[whitney69]

The McCain thing was another liberal lie. I was not a big fan of him, be he was most assuredly eligible to be president.

Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth this eligibility requirement in question for serving as president of the United States:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States shall be eligible to the Office of President.

McCain was born to two citizen parents and he was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, a US military reservation. It is considered US soil. A whole lot different than the Obama situation and not the same as Cruz who qualified as a citizen because they had lived in Canada shorter than the requirement to forfeit. Eleanor Wilson Cruz was born in Wilmington, Delaware so she was a US citizen.

Obama was a completely different story and would take me an hour to lay it out. He’s not worth my time.

wy69