Posted on 08/13/2008 6:22:21 AM PDT by jasonmyos
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-A John McCain presidency would be illegal because the Arizona senator was not born in the United States, says a lawsuit filed by the American Independent Party.
The minor party says it wants McCain's name removed from ballots in California because federal law would bar the former Vietnam War POW from taking office were he to be elected in November, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution disqualifies McCain from assuming office because he was born in the Commonwealth of Panama in 1936, while his father was stationed at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, the lawsuit contends.
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McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, which was then Sovereign American territory. Both his father and grandfather were high-ranking Admirals in the U.S. Navy.
Don't these idiots bother to read U.S. law and history?
> The guys filing this suit are assclowns. <
Not only that:
The complaint is so absurd and so frivolous that the plaintiff and her attorney should be sacntioned by the Court. I believe the federal statutes and precedents would give the District Judge wide latitude to do so.
Alan Keyes is a steaming jackass.
Is this an "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours" moment?
It would be real funny. Well, funny right up to the moment they start swearing in Hillary as President. Then it would cease being funny.
What is that?
Independent?.....Dependent of what?
Soros?
notice they are not challenging Barry’s birth certificate....interesting.
This is not the Alan Keyes I knew.
This is a good thing. A legal dust up over the eligibility of McCain and Obama may cause us to insist that candidates for public office establish their eligibility before competent authority, not just assert that they are eligible. Far more Democrats than Republicans will fall afoul of this sort of scruitny.
As for this lawsuit, its frivilous and should be treated as such. Its just designed to garner free publicity for this wacko and obscure group. They succeeded.
This is a nonstarter but it should be a precedent for those with questions about just Where Hussein was born. Such suits in many states could force O’Bama to produce a real BC and prove its provenance (or quit the race.)
I thought this was settled long ago.
“McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone”
I think the actual hospital was off-base in Panama proper, not the Zone. It does not matter, though, as long as his parents are both US citizens he could have been born in the Mars Colony.
Hey, maybe the judge will expand the suit to cover Obama, who had one underage citizen parent and a non-citizen parent?
“insist that candidates for public office establish their eligibility “
This will beome more important as children of illegal immigrants grow up.
Keyes has abandoned any sense of rationality to hold onto what little fame and impact he has left.
ANd don't forget Forrest Gump, “ stupid is as stupid does”.
While Osama Obama is “vacationing” in Hawaii this week, he’s working on clean-up duties to remedy any questions about his citizenship.
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