McCain not eligible for Presidency?

[88Mariner]

John McCain was born August 29, 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, to two U.S. citizens. It’s a common misunderstanding that the zone was a U.S. territory - in fact, the U.S. had lease rights, but not territorial rights.
The US Constitution states, “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall nothave attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.”
“Natural Born Citizen” - “is where ONLY the natural act of one being born in a place determines the status of ones citizenship with no additional stipulations necessary to influence that status”

Perhaps i'm reading things wrong here, but this does raise an interesting point.

[Huggie Smiles]

Re: McCain not eligible for Presidency?

Romneys gonna be pissed!

[superdave]

Re: McCain not eligible for Presidency?

You can be born in a foreign land and still be considered a U.S. citizen if your parents are U.S. citizens. I'm sure they have sorted this all out already and McCain wouldn't be running if he wasn't eligible.

[KinKyJ]

Re: McCain not eligible for Presidency?

^^^ True. And even if he wouldn't be eligible, it doesn't matter: the Republicans aren't going to take the prize anyways

[toasty]

Re: McCain not eligible for Presidency?

Boy, that would be funny, but I'm pretty sure superdave's right on this.

[fumanchu182]

Re: McCain not eligible for Presidency?

Shhhhhh. If McCain finds out you are doubting he is a red white and blue wearing redneck, err republican, he may come out of the bushes and ambush you with his rambo knife...