No on all three counts. They couldn't get "Congress" to do anything. So what they passed was a "sense of the Senate" resolution--amounts to a direction from the Senate to the Supreme Court how to rule if the argument gets there. The guys who argue cases to the Supreme Court all say usually the Court reacts adversely to that kind of direction.
No scrutiny and no vetting either. Political argument by the Solicitor General and other Political lawyers that it would be unfair to deprive the son of a officer serving his country of a Constitutional privilege because of the location of his father's service. Usual Supreme Court response to that argument is that is why the Amendment process is available in the Constitution.
If you feel strongly about it, adopt a Constitutional Amendment--you still have six months; get the states to ratify it. Then you can feel better.
In my opinion, if the issue gets to the courts, McCain is not eligible to be President of the United States--although anyone reading this should recognize the issue as subject to argument and a contrary result.
I think this is nonsense. He is a natural born citizen of the USA. If anyone has an issue, it’s the guy who won’t post his birth records.
I think this is an issue for the courts to decide if it comes down to that.
Both parents are US citizens and have resided in the USA.
Obama has the problem here.
4. December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986
If, at the time of your birth, both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the United States, you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship with no conditions for retaining it.
If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16. There are no conditions placed on retaining this type of citizenship. If your one U.S. citizen parent is your father and you were born outside of marriage, the same rules apply if your father legally legitimated you before your 21st birthday and you were unmarried at the time. If legitimation occurred after November 14, 1986, your father must have established paternity prior to your 18th birthday, either by acknowledgment or by court order, and must have stated in writing that he would support you financially until your 18th birthday.