McStain was an open target for question, in that he was born in Panama, and maybe not really in the Canal Zone.
I do not know when the Obambie birth issue came up.
I do not think it was even on the radar screen at first.
Keep in mind, I have not been in the USA since Jan. 2005
and had no idea who Obama was. I had never heard of him.
I think someone, far too late, saw flaws in the bogus certification, pointing out that anyone could walk in off the street and get one.
That is when people started taking names and asking questions.
Everything about Obambie is questionable.
If he were a Republican he would be in jail by now.
Lord McCain ran for president in 2000 and nary a question arose over his eligibility. But out of the wild blue yonder in 2008 arises a question in the Senate of all place to resolve they deem him qualified... Manipulation is correct alright and it is still being spewed all over US.
Let the first state in this nation require any who runs for the office of president to provide their eligibility paper and watch these manipulators scream like stuck pigs.