[Kay Ludlow]

Only the headline is posted. You don't suppose the NYT is trying to make sure there is NO republican candidate, do you?

[popdonnelly]

No need for a debate about anything printed in the Times. The paper has become inane.

[gondramB]

[HawaiianGecko]

I'm not going to read past post #1 because it's late. So if I'm repeating some other poster's logic, I apologize in advance.

Here's what I consider the final argument of this subject. USC 8 Section 1401 says: "The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:" And number one on the list is: "a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof"  Now, before you point out that it doesn't say 'natural born' it says citizen at birth, and that it is talking about people born within the boundaries of the United States and Senator McCain was born in Panama,  consider the paradox created if citizen at birth does NOT equal natural born.

Since anyone born inside the US is a citizen at birth (USC 8 Sec 1401) and most arguments are that a citizen at birth does not mean natural born and therefore a citizen at birth cannot be president... just how did 40 of our presidents become POTUS?  They were born in the United States, therefore, they are citizens at birth, they have legally been president, THEREFORE, they are natural born and at birth citizens.

Personally, I think dropping that into the lap of any judge is a winning argument.

[sodpoodle]

http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=731

Category: Politics International
Posted Thu Feb 08,2007 7:59 PM
ANDY MARTIN
Executive editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

Excerpt:
Obama’s attempts to portray his father as an ignorant ‘goat herd,’ moreover, were part of his attempts at ‘identity theft’ against his own father, designed to create an imaginary picture of Barack Sr. It is inconceivable that Obama’s father was ignorant of Kenyan law, since he served as a government official and held a Ph.D. from Harvard. And it is inconceivable that Obama Sr. never told his son that he was a Kenyan national. Why has ‘junior’ hidden this information for decades?” Martin will demand Friday.

“The American people, when deciding who to support for president, have a right to know if their ‘president’ is also a citizen of Kenya and owes dual loyalty to Kenya because he has never renounced his Kenyan citizenship.
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(Interesting that NYT did not raise this conundrum)

[wpa_mikeb]

I SO encourage the MSM and the left to go after McCain for his years as a POW and the military service of his father.

We all should be encouraging that.

Conservatives KNOW the MSM and the left hates the military. I want to hear the answer to the debate question posed to McCain and Obama -— “Do you agree with the Berkeley protesters who are vandalizing the Marine recruiter’s office and calling the Marines murderers?”

By the way, has John Murtha EVER apologized to that Marine?

[devere]

Did they not know where he was born when they endorsed him to be the Republican candidate?

The NY Slimes are beyond compare.

Of course legally there is no issue: John McCain is clearly a natural born US citizen who is eligible to become President.

[Piquaboy]

Hillary’s hatching out on a fence post should raise questions also. Even Baaaracks birth shoud raise some questions.