Posted on 02/27/2008 6:12:38 PM PST by Kay Ludlow
Don’t think I’m taking it seriously - I know better than to trust the NYT to be factually correct ;-)
The Jerk !
This comment says a lot more about you than McCain.
Even if the canal zone weren't, both his parents were US citizens. That makes him a US citizen by birth regardless of where that birth takes place. The Constitution only requires being a "natural born citizen" not being born in US territory. It also requires a minimum of 14 years US residency and attainment of an age of at least 35 years.
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.
It took you how long to find that, a couple of minutes? And the great fact-checking organ of the NYT could not do that???
this story has been going around for weeks if not months.
Another case:
Romney was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua to Gaskell Romney (1871-1955), an American of English ancestry, and wife Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926), born to a New England and Scottish father and a German mother. Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States because of the federal government's opposition to polygamy.[3] Anna's father Helaman Pratt was the son of early Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt. Helaman had served as president of the Mexican mission in Mexico City before moving to Chihuahua State, and George's uncle Rey L. Pratt would be president of the Mexican mission, president in exile, during the Mexican Revolution and on into the 1930s. When the Mexican Revolution broke out in late 1910, Romney's family went to Oakley, Idaho, and finally ending up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Though some would later ask questions about Romney's eligibility to run for President due to his birth in Mexico, he was in fact a "natural-born citizen" due to the citizenship of his parents. Romney's parents married in 1895; they had three older sons, Maurice, Douglas, and Miles, and a younger son, Lawrence.
This just in. For the second time in a week, Dan Rather has commended the NYT on their excellent coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.
I assume the article is written by NYT people who consider the Constitution to be a "living document, to be interpreted in the world of today". They will probably think it's in there even when the rest of us know better.
Actually, it doesn’t quite work like that.
Until 18, you have dual citizenship. At 18, you choose.
My brother was born in Venezuela to American parents. He could have been either a Venezuelan citizen or an American citizen. Just by voting in an American election made him a citizen.
Guess they think the Constitution doesn't matter so much anymore on other issues, so why on this one.
And the hit-pieces keep coming....there is no way the John MCain will ever be elected as POTUS...if by the greatest miracle in human history he does get elected, he will be forced to be eve more of a liberal (R) than we have see him....
ROFLMAO
At least it’s entertaining!
"Not sure - but he looks like maybe he was!
No, it wasn't.
Yes. It became a state in 1959, Obama born in 1961.
Yes. He was born in 1961.
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