[MrEdd]

Of course, this whole DU inspired diatribe ignores the fact that the Canal Zone was a US territory while we were paying the rent.

[Frantzie]

McCain is a digusting human being. The others in this sleazy story are far worse but McCain helped give us Obama.

We could have had in order of good to bad Fred, Mitt, Rdy, Huckabee. The minor candidates like Tancredo, Hunter, Keyes and Paul were all good men too and probably better than the others except maybe Fred.

[Frantzie]

Why is this on Huffington Post? Is this the left doing a shot across O’s bow for not stopping the wars, not helping gays fast enough, etc etc.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Self ping for later

[TheConservativeParty]

O is a usurper. We all have known that since last year. McCain was born in a US Territory, he was eligible.
We have an illegitimate occupier in The White House.
That is why he is going for the gusto with his agenda.
He knows the Sheeple are unaware, useful idiots.
He will get away with it.
The public schools have done their job of uneducating the masses very very well. The socialists have finally dumbed down the public enought to elect a Kenyan born marxist with no birth certificate. They don’t even know you need to be a natural born citizen to be POTUS. But they DO know how to put a condom on a banana. And they know that Heather can have 2 mommies, and that little puny humans are changing the climate,,,,etc etc,,,liberal crap rotting the minds of America.

[Grammy]

I went through this issue when I needed to get my passport over 40 years ago. My father was an army brat, born in the Philipine Islands while his father was stationed there. I had to wait for the “powers that be” to decide if my dad was a natural born citizen, as if affected how my passport was issued.

He was born to 2 American citizens over the age of 18. Yes he was a citizen.

[Arguendo]

I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen… . . - John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866

How does John McCain fail to meet this definition? He was clearly born within the jurisdiction of the United States (on a Naval base) even if he was not born on US soil.

The guy who wrote this sounds like a kook.

Besides, one of the most fundamental canons of legal interpretation is that you avoid an interpretation that leads to an absurd result when there are other reasonable interpretations. And an interpretation of the "natural born citizen" clause that holds a person ineligible because his father was a high-ranking naval officer who happened to be stationed abroad when he was born is clearly absurd.

[KarenMarie]

That is one of the most screwed up things I have ever read.

[TigersEye]

But if these candidates were legitimate already, there would obviously be no reason for these proceedings.

There's the money quote.

[Spaulding]

The complexity surrounding who is and who is not natural born is why Obama’s supporters felt they could get away with it. Every senator signed S.R. 511 in which the definition of “Natural Born Citizen” is repeated numerous times. Obama never hid the British Citizenship of his father. His supporters were clever, drawing the attention to McCain's not having been born on US Territory. I would be surprised if everyone didn't know the truth - McCain, unfair though that may seem, was not qualified. Now, none of our legislators will touch the issue, and may not have a remedy - they could and should have questioned Obama's credentials before the election. Let him destroy the economy, the military, free speech, 2nd Amendment, but the word is not spoken. Perhaps that Obama himself made no secret (as Chester Arthur did, burning his papers to keep the secret of his non-citizen father) of the allegiance of his father to Britain and Kenya. Now, the hate-america, anti-capitilist machine is installed and a soft coup in progress. Obama is the the law school example of why the allegiance
of parents, as specified by John Jay, George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Bingham, etc. etc. is so important.

[demsux]

I’m gonna do my damndest to see that McKaskill is not re-elected.

[Dajjal]

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