So what? I wasn't a US Citizen either when my son was born in Germany in March of 1963 and my daughter in 1970. My husband registered them both with the American Consulate in Munich, Germany when they were 6 weeks old. Both were born in the same US Army hospital, which means they were born on US soil.
You don't really think they would have gotten American birth certificates and American Passports issued if they had not qualified? Get real and stop it with the birther nonesense.
...Get real and stop it with the birther nonesense...
This is not nonsense. Can’t you understand, there are TWO types of American citizens.
1. Natural born citizens. Born on American soil of two American parents.
2. Naturalized citizens. NATURALIZED CITIZEN. One who, being born an alien, has lawfully become a citizen of the United States Under the constitution and laws.
2. He has all the rights of a natural born citizen, except that of being eligible as president or vice-president of the United States. In foreign countries he has a right to be treated as such, and will be so considered even in the country of his birth, at least for most purposes. 1 Bos. & P. 430. See Citizen; Domicil; Inhabitant. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Naturalized+citizen
Now, naturalized citizen laws have been so bastardized, twisted and tweeked by various people and groups to make their group, their guy, their whatever, a natural born citizen but that does not make it so. This is what has brought us anchor babies and Obama.
To put it another way -
My grandparents came from Portugal. The became naturalized citizens.
My father, born in the US, after his parents had become naturalized, was a natural born citizen.
See, really very simple.
One thing that many do not know, simply because it is a bit obscure, is that way back when naturalization laws were being written, it was decided/declared that a child born to a parent(s) while outside of the US in service to their country would have the same exact standing as if native born in the US to that parent. It was the children who were born to regular travelers and business travelers who were (back in the late 1700s) born aliens if born outside the US.
It is for that reason that John McCain actually didn’t need any special “resolution”.