Posted on 01/31/2008 9:55:48 AM PST by Perdogg
“Thats were my dad was stationed in WWII.”
My grandfather was stationed there as well. They probably knew each other. Besides guard duty, he was assigned to sit on a barge beside a smoke pot waiting for an air-raid siren. Later they sent him to Okinawa and eventually mainland Japan.
Cheers :)
Oh?
My dad was an MP.
My dad was sent home after he was shot by a sniper and lost an arm.
This type article is pure bs. US Military or Foreign Service personnel serving overseas whose children are born during that overseas assignment are natural born citizens.
There’s plenty to go after McCain about, but this is offensive.
If you are born an American citizen, you can be born outside the United States, like McCain and Obama. If you were not born an American citizen, like Ahnold, you are ineligible to be President.
It took him five years when everyone else graduated in four years. He also graduated at the bottom of his class.
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Just facts please.
He graduated from Episcopal HS Alexandria VA 1954
He graduated from USNA 1958
He was 5th from the bottom of his class.
I am no fan of McCain in his present endeavor.
Yep, they probably knew each other. I don’t think my grandfather was an MP. I just remembered that he told an interesting story about guarding a warehouse.
Been here before, and it has already been settled. The same trash was talked when Gerorge Romney ran in 1967.
It is notable that while Romney was born in Mexico, he was still considered to be a viable and legal candidate to run for office. His Mormon father and his three wives fled to Mexico in 1886 but none of them ever relinquished their citizenship. While the Constitution does provide that a president must be a natural born citizen, the first Congress of the United States in 1790 passed legislation stating that "The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States." Romney and his family fled Mexico in 1912 prior to the Mexican revolution.
"... I promise to lead our nation and our party as a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'll lower your taxes, veto wasteful government spending, and ensure our party returns to the smaller government principles on which it began. I'll secure our border first before pursuing any other immigration reform. I'll appoint conservative judges like Justices Alito and Roberts. I will protect the sanctity of life and have a 24 year record to prove it. This is my commitment to you. As you go to the polls today consider our greatest challenge as a nation is to defeat a relentless enemy of radical Islamic extremists. My life experience has prepared me better than any other candidate to defeat this enemy. We can and will win this war. Again, this is John McCain and I humbly ask you to vote for me today. (Paid for by John McCain 2008.)
Would that all of that were true, but somehow I doubt it.
I stand corrected. He's most often identified with TN and KY, but was born in SC, which was unquestionably a state.
You are correct, the Constitution makes an exemption for people who were born before 1776.
To be technical about it, 1788 -- the relevant date is the adoption of the Constitution, not the Declaration. But Jackson is in in either case. He was born in South Carolina in 1767, so he was definitely eligible under black-letter law.
McCain was born a US citizen -- i.e., he did not need to be naturalized -- and if he's elected, I'd bet a crisp Ben Franklin that the federal courts won't rush to overturn the voters' decision. You might find a district or even a circuit court to weigh in on the side of invalidating an election, but SCOTUS would be waiting with the smackdown.
That's close to being an imponderable. It's like asking which is worse, a poke in the eye or a blow to the throat?
Well there is that one little detail of insanity. Although I have been told there is a fine line between insanity and genius, unfortunately for McCain they don’t make medication strong enough to eject him to the other side.
You don’t even have to be military.
As long as your mother was a US citizen at the time of your birth, then you’re a natural born US citizen no matter where you were born.
There are only 2 categories. You’re either a natural born citizen or you’re a naturalized citizen.
That’s right...it was 1788 and not 1776. All that is moot now (unless Robert Byrd runs).
Of course Hawaii is not physically connected to the rest of the United States, but maybe Huckabee will propose building a 4-lane interstate to connect it to California, in order to help the economy.
Ditto, what a stupid article.
They brought up this same crap in 1964 when Barry Goldwater was running. Goldwater was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909 - three years before it became a state.
I totally agree Gator..........I can think of at least 2 reasons why he shoudn’t be eligible for POTUS.......he’s nuts and he’s a Demonrat! :)
So! It's all Jimmy Carter's fault.
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