both his parents are american citizens. the topic is just garbage it won’t fly.
These kinds of attacks against someone are extremely shallow and almost incomprehensibly stupid.
After reading the article I don’t see where they are raising it as an issue. They are mentioning something that many people have wondered about, including many Freepers. The article consistently states that research indicates he is eligible.
Seems to me that someone would need to mount a legal challenge to this rather than just point it out. Will the NYT or the DNC or some other group actually lead this challenge?
Poster #3's U.S.C. post knocks the "musty debate" in the head. Forget about it. McCain is a U.S. citizen.
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.
I don't see the part about needing to have been born United States soil.
Note well that Senator Graham is far too busy telling foreign nationals that if they break our immigration laws, they get a nice reward: their kid is not only entitled to government benefits but even the right to become President of the most powerful State in the world.
Haven’t we been here before?
Legal error? Undoubtedly, people go to (or stay out of) jail every day due to legal errors.
They really would not want to open this question, if it were a real question, rather than simple $h!t-stirring.
The 1 March 1803 date of Admission to Statehood has only been official since the adoption of the Bender Ohio Statehood Act of 7 August 1953; the rest of the [specious?] story
This has got to be bogus. If John McCain were not an American citizen, the North Vietnamese would’ve let him go after they fished him out of that lake in Hanoi.
If only...there was a momentary flash of hope but,...NEXT!
The NYT’s attacks on McCain must be coming from the McCain campaign. They are galvanizing him against anything serious that might be coming down the road, possibly something they know about already. This stuff is just too easy, too Clintonesque in nature, setting up a straw man to knock down. Everyone has gone on the assumption that the NYT is just leading off the inevitable MSM assault on McCain, but the opposite seems more likely. McCain may be their choice of Democrats.
Desperate or not I’m hoping he is disqualified.
He was born in a naval hospital to American parents. Isn’t this the same bunch at the slimes who would cry if we ever stopped the anchor baby scam.
Remember when Al Gore and democrats tried to deny military absentee ballots in 2000? NYT’s and democrats will stop at nothing. I’m actually astonished they would question a birthplace on a military base in order to stop a Republican candidate.
...because, though he’s been running for President for, like, 400 years, no one has thought of this?
utter nonsense.
If a foreign born person wishes to claim citizenship via a US parentage, that US parent has to have lived in the USA for ten years. MILIATARY SERVICE regardless of location counts as those ten years. This is jus one illustration.
The fact that the US OWNED the panama cannal only adds fuel to the absurdity of this NYT slime effort.
I am no mccain supporter but this is just plain evil in reporting.