"babeejm" <jmtsmall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 29, 11:20 am, Mack the Knife <bulldog101...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> McCain Says Citizen****p a Dead Issue
>> By LIBBY QUAID - 13 hours ago
>>
>> RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain
>> said Thursday the question of whether he can run for president,
>> despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years
>> ago in Barry Goldwater's run for the White House.
>>
>> McCain added that he doesn't know why his campaign sought legal
>> analysis of whether his birth outside the continental United States
>> might disqualify him from the presidency.
>>
>> The Constitution says only a "natural-born citizen" may serve as
>> president.
>>
>> McCain's campaign asked former Solicitor General Ted Olson for a legal
>> interpretation of the issue.
>>
>> McCain himself insists the issue was put to rest when fellow Arizonan,
>> Barry Goldwater, ran for president in 1964.
>>
>> "Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was a territory, Arizona
>> was a territory, and it went all the way to the Supreme Court," McCain
>> told re****ters Thursday on his campaign plane. "And there's no doubt
>> about that. And it was researched again in 2000."
>>
>> The Panama Canal Zone was a U.S. territory when McCain was born on
>> Aug. 29, 1936.
>>
>> As for the reason for seeking Olson's opinion: "I don't know," McCain
>> said. "Maybe my staff talked to him, but I didn't. But I have
>> absolutely no concern about that."
>>
>> "It's very clear that (the idea that) an American born in a territory
>> of the United States whose father is serving in the military would not
>> be eligible for the presidency of the United States is certainly not
>> something our founding fathers envisioned." McCain's father was
>> stationed in the Canal Zone by the Navy at the time of his birth.
>>
>> McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said the request for Olson's help
>> was routine, and it wasn't necessary to bring it to the attention of
>> the senator.
>>
>> Olson said he is still researching the issue but is certain McCain is
>> qualified. The plain meaning of "natural-born citizen" includes those
>> born to parents who are citizens, particularly when they are born on a
>> U.S. military base as McCain was, Olson said.
>>
>> "I am confident that the United States Supreme Court, should it ever
>> address the issue, would agree," Olson said in a statement.
>>
>> According to the U.S. Citizen****p and Immigration Services, people are
>> born U.S. citizens if they are born in the U.S. or their parents are
>> U.S. citizens. The question arises because Article II of the
>> Constitution limits the office of president to a "natural-born
>> citizen," a term on which the Founding Fathers did not elaborate.
>>
>> Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a prominent backer of Democratic
>> candidate Sen. Barack Obama, introduced legislation Thursday that
>> would define a "natural-born citizen" as anyone born to any U.S.
>> citizen while serving in the active or reserve components of the U.S.
>> armed forces. Obama's campaign announced late Thursday that he will co-
>> sponsor the bill.
>>
>> "Those who serve and sacrifice for their country, like John McCain and
>> his father, deserve every honor and privilege that our nation can
>> possibly provide, and that includes the ability to run for the highest
>> office in the land," Obama said in a statement.
>>
>> Associated Press writer Sam Hananel in Wa****ngton contributed to this
>> re****t.
>
>
>
>>Oh please that is such a non-isue..he was born to American parents who
> were stationed in the PCZ at the tme of his birth..which at that
> time..
> the Panama Canal Zone was under American jurisdiction. Henry
> Kissinger..and Arnold Schwartzenegger could never run because they
> were born overseas to foreign nationals...John McCain is as American
> as you and I.
But it was not a territor, nor a state. It was leaves land under treaty
with
Panama.
McCain is out
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