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Is John McCain Ineligible to Be President?
Newsmax ^ | Monday, July 16, 2007 4:26 PM | By: Lowell Ponte

Posted on 01/31/2008 9:55:48 AM PST by Perdogg

Pundits are now writing obituaries for Sen. John McCain's sinking campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

I hereby join them with a fundamental question: Does the Arizona senator fulfill our Constitution's eligibility requirements to be president?

Like several other prominent American politicians, John McCain was not born in the United States.

Article II of the Constitution specifies that "no person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President."

Because of this, California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria in 1947, is ineligible to be president. He moved to the United States in 1968 and became a U.S. citizen in 1983.

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To: Perdogg

Another senseless article from Newsmax.


41 posted on 01/31/2008 10:09:42 AM PST by gracesdad
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To: edcoil

I don’t think you could have had German citizenship just by being born there. They don’t play it that way. Still more into the racial business. There’s turkish families where the third generation is being born there, and still no citizenship.


42 posted on 01/31/2008 10:09:51 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Perdogg
I really don't like McCain, but this is tinfoil hat stuff. If both parents are U.S. citizens and the birth abroad is duly registered with the U.S. Consulate or Embassy in the country, then it is the same as a natural born U.S. Citizen.

This is exactly what we were told when we registered my Japan-born daughter in Tokyo-- something we had to do in order to get a passport, something we needed to get her a Japanese visa. She has a really cool looking State Department birth certificate to prove it.

43 posted on 01/31/2008 10:09:54 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: tnlibertarian; Perdogg
The author would have a better chance at proving McCain was only 33 years old.

Well Chelsea Clinton is having just her 7th birthday this year on February 29.

44 posted on 01/31/2008 10:10:24 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Perdogg

So who’s going to bring this lawsuit against McCain? Romney? Nope, his dad (who ran for president in 1968) was born in Mexico. Whoops!


45 posted on 01/31/2008 10:11:04 AM PST by mngran2
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To: freedomlover

The article is 8 months old.


46 posted on 01/31/2008 10:11:17 AM PST by Perdogg (Electing Another Carter to get Another Reagan is a Foolish and Dangerous Strategy)
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To: Vigilanteman

My daughter has the same thing, only she was born in Germany. I was never clear on whether she could be president though. Thanks for the post.


47 posted on 01/31/2008 10:11:32 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Thanks.

My dad told me some stories (not good on his part) with the base commander’s wife.

Oh well, it would be a great family get together addition to my dad’s escapades.

48 posted on 01/31/2008 10:11:42 AM PST by svcw (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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To: babble-on

Just told you what I had to do. I went into the military so the issue became mute.


49 posted on 01/31/2008 10:12:46 AM PST by edcoil
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To: Greg F

News Max sucks. I ordered a Reagan hat from them 4 years ago and ended up with no hat and a subscription to thier C$(& magazine.


I agree - I stupidly got on Newsmax’s mailing list about ten years and I STILL get gobs and GOBS of junk mail even though I have tried a million times and ways to get off. Never seen the like of it. They give rabid conservatives a bad name.

See also Judicial Watch.


50 posted on 01/31/2008 10:13:37 AM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Perdogg
But the Constitutionally-mandated term “natural born citizen” remains subject to reinterpretation by future Supreme Courts.”

While that may be - my point was that we certainly wouldn't want to be the side to push a reinterpretation, even for the purpose of keeping McCain from being our candidate. It would be insulting to the military who would view it, rightly so, as us trying to use the conditions of his dad's service to exclude him on a technicality.

51 posted on 01/31/2008 10:13:58 AM PST by Gator101 (Don't tase me, Bro!)
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To: Perdogg

The Panama Canal Zone in 1936 was as much a US Territory as Hawaii and Alaska. How many US Presidents were born in territories?


52 posted on 01/31/2008 10:14:32 AM PST by bobjam
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To: mngran2
George Romney was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, where his Mormon father had fled in 1886 with his three wives after the U.S. government outlawed polygamy — what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had previously called "plural marriage."

Nice that our writer could include this tidbit of information.

53 posted on 01/31/2008 10:15:09 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: dmz
re: Only if he was delivered by C section. Is that not how we should be interpreting ‘natural born citizen’?))

LOL--his name is "McCain" not "MacDuff"--

But, oh, if McCain could be torn untimely from the primary womb!!

54 posted on 01/31/2008 10:17:18 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Perdogg
Pundits are now writing obituaries for Sen. John McCain's sinking campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

They are? He won big in Florida. I don't support him, but I don't see anyone writing obituaries for his campaign. This fundamental misstatement of fact makes me immediately question the rest of the piece.

I hereby join them with a fundamental question: Does the Arizona senator fulfill our Constitution's eligibility requirements to be president?

The children of US citizens are citizens of the US, regardless of where they are born. This is well-established.

The very idea that the children of military members may not be "natural born citizens" is beyond insulting to our servicemen and women and their families. This piece is an exercise in idiocy.

55 posted on 01/31/2008 10:17:26 AM PST by mountainbunny
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To: Paleo Conservative
Well Chelsea Clinton is having just her 7th birthday this year on February 29.

That's funny. So she can't run for President for another 112 years? That's good. Maybe she'll get busted trying to vote for her mom.

56 posted on 01/31/2008 10:18:41 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Perdogg
A vote for McCain is a vote for the second coming of Lyndon Johnson (father of "The Great Society.") Wouldn't your rather have at least one Republican to choose from next November?

McConan the "Republican"? Just say NO!

57 posted on 01/31/2008 10:19:46 AM PST by sourcery (Electile Disfunction: The inability to get excited about any of the available candidates)
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To: RC2

I noticed that smirk too. This year I feel like the whole process has been a drama put on for show by the media and people behind the scenes who are really pulling the strings. I’m not sure how much more of this I want to watch.

I find candidates remaining all have positions on vital issues that scare me to death - not to mention personal baggage! YIKES!


58 posted on 01/31/2008 10:19:49 AM PST by Bookwoman ("...and I am unanimous in this..")
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To: mountainbunny

This whole question is about as dumb as the Supreme Court trying to figure out what the 2nd Ammendment really, really, really, really means.


59 posted on 01/31/2008 10:20:35 AM PST by RC2
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To: colorado tanker
I’m not a McCain supporter, but I won’t resort to this kind of nonsense to oppose him.

Dittos. I am not a McCain supporter either, but this is really pathetic. It actually makes me sick.

60 posted on 01/31/2008 10:21:21 AM PST by KJC1
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