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The only BC of his I can recall seeing shows his place of birth as Colón Panama.

It was forged and submitted into evidence by the plaintiff in a court case challenging McCain's eligibility.

Although curiosity says it's fake, McCain has never repudiated it.

Well, he has stated that he was born on the base, so he has directly contradicted the information on that BC.

He also privately showed his real BC to a Washington Post reporter, who confirmed on the record that McCain's BC says he was born on the base.

(N.B.: McCain has never made any images of his BC available to the public).

Not that it much matters to me. Born on the base or on the economy, either way he wasn't born on US soil.

Well, my understanding is that the canal zone at the time was US territory.

At any rate, McCain never had to be naturalized, and there are only two types of citizen: natural born and naturalized. So if he's citizen at all, he must be natural born.