“There would be no reason for DOH in Hawaii to have a copy of Obama’s birth certificate if he was not born there. Sorry I have no intention of voting for the guy but give this issue a rest. The way the State handles this is how many States do. You are not an interested party you do not have access to the records. Can you imagine the increased identity theft if anyone could see anybody’s birth certificate?”
McCain has and it was discussed in Congress that his birth circumstances of record in the Panama Canal qualified him to be a legal citizen of U.S. He did that during his previous run for the White House.
Discussing it in the Senate does not make it legal. Under the law he was not born a naturalized citizen, since he was not born on US property, or military base.
The Senate does not have the authority to change the Constitution, it can make new legislation that would address the issue, but they did not.
A sense of the Senate resolution does not negate the law.