If this is going to break, it better break fast because time is running out. I just wonder why nobody in the media has picked it up yet, not even Hannity.
Does McCain need to worry about any blowback from his being born in Panama?
**No, McCain does not need to worry. This subject came up for McCain in the 2000 elections and he produced his birth records. This is a non-issue for McCain.
Here’s just one source discussing this recently: It refers to a professor that had written a piece in the NYT about McCain’s birth record situation.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/mccain_birth_status_questioned.html
The problem that most people have with the term ‘natural born U.S. citizen’ is that they believe it to mean ‘born in the United States.’ There is no legal authority for that interpretation. Rather, the clear weight of authority holds that anyone who acquired U.S. citizenship automatically at birth is a ‘natural born U.S. citizen’ - irrespective of the place they were born. As the child of two U.S. citizens, McCain acquired U.S. citizenship automatically at birth.”
Gotcher agrees with Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe, a Democrat, and former Solicitor General Ted Olsen, a Republican, who themselves don’t agree on much—but who, according to today’s New York Times, have both “concluded that Mr. McCain is a natural-born citizen based on the place of his birth, the citizenship of his parents and their service to the country.”
Another recent note on McCain’s birth records, just so we are all straight:
MCCAIN WAS BORN IN COLON, R.P.
The account of John Sidney McCain III’s birth being in Coco Solo is a fabrication. This was popularized by the McCain legal defense team. The fabrication is that he was born in the Coco Solo hospital at the Naval Air Station. However, no hospital existed at Coco Solo until one was built five years after McCain’s birth. Although some people speculated that he must have been born at Colon, the fact of the location of his birth didn’t come out until recently. John McCain’s parents did not live on base. They lived in Colon, Republic of Panama.
There is a good deal of information available at http://PanamaJohn.dominates.us where you can see the birth certificate and supporting documents.
- scottwww (9/17/2008 11:50:11 PM)
I am going to check out this PanamaJohn.dominates.us site and report back.