Colón, PANAMA, not Colón Canal Zone. PANAMA
Colón isn't part of the Canal Zone.
It is a separate district and provence, a district and provence of the country of Panama.
Much like West Berlin never belonged to East Germany.
Posted on 08/05/2008 7:20:42 AM PDT by pissant
Spit ma beer! Thanks.
Only Hillary is helped by this.
Just sayin’
If the RNC wants some non-descript citizens to stand up (and $$front) a challenge...there’s a whole forum full right here (including me in Illinois-istan).
As to Constitutional eligibility of someone born of US parents in a foreign land?
That is the subject of a rather lively debate.
It is such an unresolved issue that in the last election cycle McCaskill submitted a bill to establish the eligibility to hold the office of the president to anyone born to a U.S. citizen who is serving overseas as an active or reserve member of the U.S. armed forces.
Why? Because senator McCain’s father was a Navy officer serving in the Canal Zone when McCain was born in Panama (NOT IN THE CANAL ZONE). That makes him technically ineligible in many minds.
The laws was never passed. Whether McCain is eligible is still an open question.
If it is not such an issue McCaskill wouldn’t have gone through the unsuccessful effort to try to clarify the non-issue.
It was an issue then. It is an issue now. Should McCain be elected the “progressives” will insure it remains an on-going issue. It will be their “modern” version of “selected, not elected”, and “He’s not MY president!”
McCaskill wasn’t able to get her bill passed. The most McCain has saying that congress recognizes his eligibility is a “sense of the senate”.
As if the senate had a lick of sense...
McCain wasn’t born on a military base.
He wasn’t even born in The Canal Zone.
He was born in Colón, Panama.
Mistaken for TWO megaton. Corrected. Thanks
I would suggest that if Obama gets knocked off the ballot in a single, large electoral state — say California — then he can’t be elected. If he were to be challenged before the convention his entire nomination would be in doubt.
So could Bill’s little comment about being eligible according to the constitution mean they are questioning McCain, not Obama?
Nothing will beat my 42 pings in the middle of the other night!!!
I think I was incorrect and they are sealed. Some states destroy, but apparently Hawaii seals them.
Are you only counting his mother’s children? Or does his father’s 8 not count?
Thank you for that information. I was not aware of the details of that.
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But you have a lightspeed PC !
I think I have been over this before, but you stating that is not going to change something that has been placed as a resolution with Senate. The resolution states he was born on a military base. I have looked at maps and I am still not sure where the base was he was born. But I doubt his birt certificate would state “Military base”, but the city rather.
[But you have a lightspeed PC !]
Should, but graphics and music are bogging me down. You were posting as fast as me last night!!
Colón, PANAMA, not Colón Canal Zone. PANAMA
Colón isn't part of the Canal Zone.
It is a separate district and provence, a district and provence of the country of Panama.
Much like West Berlin never belonged to East Germany.
The clinton’s are waiting until the week before to leak and discredit Obama. So the confusion will allow the Superdelegates to call for a floor vote. The rest will be history. Now is that a conspiracy therory?
This was my thought also. Hillary is counting on us to be the ones to take out Barry at the final hour before the conventionfor her, leaving her hands clean. Then she can 'reluctantly' step in and take the nomination forward, with Obama ineligible to even be chosen as VP. She's counting on the blacks to support her against the evil republicans who took out their beloved Obamesiah, while she had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it.
Thanks for the enlightenment. I had followed a FR link to NoQuarter not realizing it was being cross-posted. If I had known that was Larry Johnson’s site my tin foil hat probably would have short-circuited.
What’s the story with TechDude? Is he a known entity. Does he have a horse in the race?
Hmmm, good question. He may have been referring to McCain.
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