NYT: McCain's Birthplace in Canal Zone Raises Eligibility Questions...

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[Grizzled Bear]

Surely even the NYT isn't that addled.

Yes the NYT is that addled. And stop calling me Shirley.

[wpa_mikeb]

You need to re-read your post that was offensive.

You sure you’re a conservative? That type of post is one usually found on the anti American left wing blog sites, not here.

[SevenofNine]

Hey guys you want see NY Liars committ suicide check out this article LOL!

[iowamark]

Nonsense.

[factmart]

Did you see what McNuts did yesterday.

[Paleo Conservative]

Don’t most people come from the canal zone? Except for C-sections...

But does someone born by a C-section count as "natural born"?

[Norman Bates]

Who’s giving up the country over Iraq? What’s that supposed to mean?

[Migraine]

Oh, just bullshit.

[arthurus]

Clause 5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Was he properly a citizen at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution?

[Shortwave]

How the hell can there be almost 200 posts about a headline?! He could have been born in Bent Nose, Iowa and I still wouldn’t vote for him.

[factmart]

Go fly a Kite.

[kittymyrib]

So children of our military who were born on our bases abroad would not qualify to be President? How ridiculous!
Too bad for Hillary that Obama was born in Hawaii two years after statehood, or she could have tried to get him disqualified.

[PlanoMike]

But, his parents were married in Caesar’s Bar, Tijuana, Mexico. :>)

[Paleo Conservative]

Heck, this attack was used on Chester Alan Arthur in the 1880s— the claim was that he was born in Canada, rather than Vermont.

I'm not sure I'd count Vermont as being part of the US.

[Fox_Mulder77]

Didn’t the NYTimes just endorse him for President? Now they are saying he was never eligible to run for the office?
They are just starting to sound insane now.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Chester Alan Arthur was the son of Irish-born preacher William Arthur and Vermont-born Malvina Stone Arthur. Most official references list him as having been born in Fairfield in Franklin County, Vermont on October 5, 1829. But Arthur sometimes claimed to have born in 1830, the date that is on his grave inscription and occurs in some reference works. His father had initially migrated to Dunham, Québec, Canada, where he and his wife at one point owned a farm about 80 miles (129 km) north of the U.S. border. There has long been speculation that the future president was actually born in Canada and that the family moved to Fairfield later. If true, this would have meant that he was constitutionally ineligible to serve as vice president or president. Given a lack of official documentation and the seeming confusion about the year of Arthur's birth, historians have been unable to rule this possibility out. But though some of his opponents circulated the Canada rumor during the 1880 election, they could not prove it, and no proof has emerged since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Alan_Arthur

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Stay Classy, factmart.

[Kay Ludlow]

And the hit-pieces keep coming....there is no way the John MCain will ever be elected as POTUS...

Remember how back in the 40's & 50's kids believed what they heard on the radio and TV? Think "Christmas Story" here, and the Lil' Orphan Annie Decoder Ring. The left took over the MSM back in the 50's, expecting everyone to believe - and it worked! For 30 years it worked like a charm, then some people began to see what they were doing. Print, TV, Media and producers of all kinds joined to shore up the walls and keep control of the information. Then, in the 90's (thanks to Reagan) Talk Radio came into it's own and began to have some influence. By the mid-90's, the internet was beginning to have some impact. Today, nearly everyone who wants more information has a chance to research online. The 'market penetration' of internet access has grown hugely even since the 2000 election. Like the kid finding out that Annie was just advertising, Americans in huge numbers have realized that the MSM is also advertising - trying to get us to buy their far-left agenda. Today though, we have access to alternative sources of information. The internet is changing the face of politics, as the NYT and other can no longer get away with leftist smears. The average person has become more savvy about how the news world works, and they have friends who email them information. Even while the NYT will continue their 'hit-of-the-week' pieces against McCain, I think their value has been DE-valued by the laissez faire nature of information on the internet.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Jonny’s good buddies in the MSM ain’t treatin’ him so good now. LOL!

[editor-surveyor]

The NYT apparently is totally ignorant of US laws.