McCain hints at retirement in 2016

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hinted that he may be serving his last term in office, admitting that he does not want to become “one of these old guys that should’ve shoved off.”

McCain, a 27-year veteran of the senate and former presidential candidate, made the admission while speaking about his relationship with President Obama.

“The president and I, he's in his last term, I'm probably in mine, the relationship we have had over the past three years is quite good,” McCain told The Wrap in an interview. “Quite good."

The 77-year-old McCain's current term is up in 2016. When asked if this would really be his last term, McCain backtracked a bit.

“Nah, I don’t know,” McCain said. “I was trying to make a point. I have to decide in about two years so I don’t have to make a decision. I don’t want to be one of these old guys that should’ve shoved off.”

McCain made the initial remark about retirement off-the-cuff to a group of Obama supporters who interrupted the interview as he was arguing that television providers should unbundle their channels.

He initially backed Obama’s plan for limited military intervention in Syria, and he has been working on legislation to provide time for a diplomatic resolution.

Earlier this year, McCain also supported a compromise on universal background checks for gun buyers as part of a broader gun control package that failed in the Senate.

While arguing for immigration reform in the interview, McCain also made clear that his time in the chamber is waning.

“Now I’m not doing it for political reasons,” he said. “I’ll be long gone ... But it’s got to be done because it’s the right thing for America.”

McCain is the ninth oldest member of the Senate. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), 80, became the oldest after Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) death earlier this year.

"There must be an FBI investigation breathing down his neck."

Not likely Unum. The FBI is part of the Executive. Without McCain, Obama could not have become president. It was Obama and his campaign co-chair, Clair McCaskill who, in February 2008, sponsored Senate Bill 2678, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, which failed to pass, but was unconstitutional anyway. It's clear intent was to imply that John McCain was eligible, or quiet objections, since few citizens know that Congress has no authority to reinterpret the Constitution. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction. They so needed McCain for cover. After SB 2678 failed, two months later, in April 2008, they sponsored Senate Resolution 511, the “Senator John McCain is a Natural Born Citizen Resolution.” This was the Democrat controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, and Leahy with co-chair McCaskill, cosponsored the second effort.

These two Senate actions would not have been sponsored by the Obama campaign were there no issue. Without the quisling McCain there would have been no Obama presidency. As these two acts prove, the Senate, all senators, knew the truth. Were McCain eligible, the lawyers, and all of them were attorneys, would not have had any basis for submitting those two bills. They counted on the ignorance of citizens and complicity of the media.

As every U.S. Senator confirmed in 2008, “My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.” Chertoff didn't lie, but did skip the second requirement, “born on our soil”, leaving it to Obama’s Harvard Adviser, and Con. Law professor, Larry Tribe, who was also on Obama’s campaign committee. Tribe used the 1790 Naturalization Act to claim McCain was eligible, the same act Mark Levin cited when he upbraided a questioner recently, an act entirely repealed in 1795 and replaced by a law using the term “citizen” in place of “natural born citizen.”

It isn't clear whether McCain's positions are for sale to the highest bidder, or under threat of exposure. McCain sold out his country to silence eligibility questions about Obama, who never told us he was a natural born citizen, and clearly told us he was a 14th Amendment naturalized citizen. If we are to return to a nation built upon laws, this issue, inconvenient to both parties, cannot simply be ignored. Our Consitution, for over two hundred and thirty years, requires a president "...born in a country of parents who were its citizens." We are paying the price now for having awarded our leadership to a man, born to an alien whose allegiance was never to our land or our legal foundation. It is "natural", a law of nature, that the allegiances of the father are inherited by the son. Our Constitution was explicitly built upon "Natural Law and the Law of Nations".

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