Posted on 02/27/2008 6:12:38 PM PST by Kay Ludlow
NYT: MCCAIN'S BIRTHPLACE IN CANAL ZONE RAISES ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONS...
IO thought McCain was born before the Revolutionary War?
I was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to American citizen parents.
With all this sillyness, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m a native born citizen.
He was born to U.S. citizens. That's all that matters.
The question I have though is, why do we always implicate sweet little puppies with the worst kind of behaviour?
I retract my previous nomination and nominate your recent gem as douchebag post of the day!!! Congratulations. You worked hard and earned this nomination. Keep working, and you may become douchebag poster of the day.
ok - it’s a little fun - but frustrating cause the USA has gone nuts. Very unhappy with the prospect of our future.
Fine then. If I can't be President, I'm not paying taxes.
ok here is the previous post on FR that has some interesting info. Like I posted here, McCain is a US citizen, he DERIVED citizenship from his parents, but the question still remains whether he is a ‘natural born citizen”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971696/posts
There have been some posts on this topic already, but they are incomplete and the Mccain campaign, Wikipedia, and other sources have weaseled around it with a reference to a 1790 act of Congress defining foreign-born children of US citizens as natural-born, thus meeting to requirements to run for President.
I started digging into the Act of Congress that Mccain’s campaign said got him around this (5th Congress, March 26th 1790), but found that this act was repealed by the same Congress, January 29th, 1795, RE-defining such children as just American citizens (not natural-born, as required for Pres. by the Constitution), and that this act was re-repealed April 14th, 1802 by the 6th Congress, keeping the same definition of foreign-born US citizens.
Unless someone can show me something I’ve missed (and I can find nothing anywhere referring to ANY other defense on this issue as of yet), Mccain is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States and according to all applicable laws I’ve found, is NOT eligible to run for President. Links to these Acts of Congress:
I don't know but they're very pretty babies. No cone heads. ;)
Mccain will pass all liberal laws with the help of a few Rinos.
With the dems in control we will Filibuster, and stop them from becoming law.
Dennis Miller disagrees big if that's any help.
I personally follow Red Buttons but his words aren't on the tube much anymore. :^)
You made my day, a true scholar.
just more liberal disrespect and ignorance to the military laws
He's obviously a citizen, that's not the question.
“...natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States” -Article 3, Section 1, Clause 5. If he was born in Moscow in such circumstance that there is no paperwork necessary for him to be a citizen of the United States, he is a “natural born citizen...” They are just trying to plant the notion of cheating in the heads of people who have not read the Constitution, which is probably 99.xx percentage of the public school graduates in the last couple of generations.
BS
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