Posted on 01/31/2008 9:55:48 AM PST by Perdogg
Pundits are now writing obituaries for Sen. John McCain's sinking campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
I hereby join them with a fundamental question: Does the Arizona senator fulfill our Constitution's eligibility requirements to be president?
Like several other prominent American politicians, John McCain was not born in the United States.
Article II of the Constitution specifies that "no person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Because of this, California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria in 1947, is ineligible to be president. He moved to the United States in 1968 and became a U.S. citizen in 1983.
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LOL about the interstate across the Pacific that Huckabee would build. No smoking allowed on any part of it, either!
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