If McCain was found not to be an eligible president (moot point now) by the courts because he was not born in the US then that was OK with me.
And if Obama were found not to be eligible by the courts because he was not born in the US, that would just as ok with me as well.
I was in the military and many areas (sites) that were away from the main base(s) but were still under US military administration. Are you sure the hospital was not?
Here's what Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post wrote back in May, 2008:
As I reported earlier, the McCain campaign has declined to publicly release the senator's birth certificate. But a senior campaign official showed me a copy of his birth certificate issued by the "family hospital" in the Coco Solo submarine base. (McCain's grandfather commanded the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in 1936; his father was the executive officer of a submarine based in Coco Solo.)
The birth certificate was signed by Captain W. L. Irvine. I have now checked that name against the Naval Register for 1936, and I find that William Lorne Irvine was director of the medical facility at the submarine base hospital in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, during that time period. You can see the entry here. I think this effectively disposes of any remaining doubts that McCain was born inside the Canal Zone.
So, it was a hospital, on the base, and signed by a military officer.
Here's the
long form birth certificate provided by Donald Lamb.
It says it's a certificate of birth issued by the Panama Canal Health Department. It also says that McCain was born at the civilian Colon Hospital in Colon, Panama. It's signed off by a civilian physician at the hospital as well as the hospital's civilian superintendent.
Crazy, eh?
