John McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, born to naval officer John S. McCain Jr. and his wife, Roberta. At the time of his birth, the McCain family was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, under American control. This makes McCain a natural born citizen.
Actually he was born in a civilian hospital in Panama while his father was stationed at Coco Solo but that's beside the point. So far as federal law and I'm concerned, McCain is a natural born U.S. citizen because both his parents were U.S. citizens who had lived in the states for a number of years before he was born. I have absolutely no problems accepting that. But Donofrio has twisted 'natural born U.S. citizen' status to mean someone born on U.S. soil of U.S. citizen parents. And in that respect, McCain doesn't qualify. That's why if the Court were to take on the Donofrio case and if he won then neither McCain or Obama could be president.
For the millionth time, McCain was born in Colon, Republic of Panama, and not in the Canal Zone.
You don’t read do you?
Not according to Donofrio. It makes McCain a citizen, but in order to be a Natural Born citizen one must be born on US soil, not a US military base.
This is false. He was born in Colon, Panama, just across the way from Coco Solo. The Coco Solo hospital wasn’t built until 1941. Wikipedia prints lies.
There was also a precedent set long before McCain with a president elected whose parents were diplomats....McCain is a natural born citizen....