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NYT: McCain's Birthplace in Canal Zone Raises Eligibility Questions...
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Posted on 02/27/2008 6:12:38 PM PST by Kay Ludlow

NYT: MCCAIN'S BIRTHPLACE IN CANAL ZONE RAISES ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONS...


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To: perfect stranger

Don’t think I’m taking it seriously - I know better than to trust the NYT to be factually correct ;-)


61 posted on 02/27/2008 6:26:58 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: factmart
Because McCain is so much like a dem, we should do anything we can to take this nomination away from him. Steal it, whatever we can at the convention to stop him.

The Jerk !

This comment says a lot more about you than McCain.

62 posted on 02/27/2008 6:27:00 PM PST by billva
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To: HonestConservative; austinrepub; Kay Ludlow
Panama was AMERICAN TERRITORY at the time.

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.

63 posted on 02/27/2008 6:27:23 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: rdl6989
Where was Barak Hussein Obama born?

Hawaii.
65 posted on 02/27/2008 6:28:21 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: aposiopetic

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???


66 posted on 02/27/2008 6:28:29 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: Cicero
"I must confess, this is a new one on me. First I ever heard of it."

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney

67 posted on 02/27/2008 6:28:52 PM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: Kay Ludlow

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.


68 posted on 02/27/2008 6:28:54 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: Kay Ludlow
Was Hawaii a state when Obama was born?
69 posted on 02/27/2008 6:29:12 PM PST by Ditter
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To: austinrepub
The Constitution, anyone?

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.

70 posted on 02/27/2008 6:29:28 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: austinrepub

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.


71 posted on 02/27/2008 6:29:49 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: austinrepub
"The Constitution, anyone?"

Guess they think the Constitution doesn't matter so much anymore on other issues, so why on this one.

72 posted on 02/27/2008 6:29:52 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: Kay Ludlow

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....


73 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:04 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: NonValueAdded

ROFLMAO

At least it’s entertaining!


74 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:09 PM PST by cizinec
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To: steve86
"Was McCrain around at the time of the "Adoption of this Constitution"?'

"Not sure - but he looks like maybe he was!

75 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:15 PM PST by LADY J
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To: austinrepub
My history teacher explained it differently. According to him, the requirement is that the president be born in this country. Even if his parents are citizens, if he is born in another country, he cannot be president. This is a legitimate question. I do not understand why many here get upset over it. It is not the first time this has come up.
76 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:16 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: colonialhk
"US Territory"

No, it wasn't.

77 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:34 PM PST by icwhatudo
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To: Ditter

Yes. It became a state in 1959, Obama born in 1961.


78 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:46 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Kay Ludlow
Doesn’t Hillary’s birthplace in the sulphurous pits of Hell raise eligibility questions?
79 posted on 02/27/2008 6:30:49 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Ditter

Yes. He was born in 1961.


80 posted on 02/27/2008 6:31:14 PM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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