I agree. With this smarmy line of thinking, some of my friends who were born on US bases in Germany would be SOL. His parents were citizens and he was born on a US military base in a US territory - he can bloody well run for the presidency.
Military installations on foreign soil are not U.S. territory.
I think common sense applies here. If someone is born to parents who just happen to be out of the country at the time, it’s absurd to think the Founding Fathers would disqualify that child from the presidency. That’s particularly true if the parents were serving our nation. McCain was born in the Canal Zone because his father was stationed there serving our country. The idea that McCain is disqualified from the presidency because of this is absurd. In any event, the Canal Zone was under the jurisdiction of the U.S government at the time so the issue is completely moot.
BTW, I think common sense equally applies to the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. It only applies to babies born to women who are legally entitled to be here. If a woman is illegally in the country, and gives birth, her baby should not be considered a citizen.
If the source listed as the “Daily Paul” on the original post indicates that this less than meaningless sham of an objection is coming from the Ron Paul bunch, that’s disgraceful.