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Is John McCain Ineligible to Be President?
Newsmax ^ | Monday, July 16, 2007 4:26 PM | By: Lowell Ponte

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
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To: Perdogg

I want to beat the guy as much as anyone. But I want to beat him on the issues, because a majority of Republicans see him for what he is. Not on something like this.


21 posted on 01/31/2008 10:05:00 AM PST by marron
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To: Michael.SF.

Sometimes I wonder...which is the dumber “news” site: World Net Daily or Newsmax?

Then I decide it’s a tossup and get back to something more meaningful, like counting blades of grass. :)


22 posted on 01/31/2008 10:05:16 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Perdogg

Perdogg, this is seriously old news. I don’t see a problem with resurrecting old news if it’s to prove a new point in the present, but of course McCain is eligible, no matter how much we can’t stand him.


23 posted on 01/31/2008 10:05:28 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: Gator101

This was the point

“And most of us agree that it would be unfair to deny presidential eligibility to patriotic citizens born to parents serving overseas in the U.S. military. Such people are likely to be among the most patriotic and worthy of Americans.

But the Constitutionally-mandated term “natural born citizen” remains subject to reinterpretation by future Supreme Courts.”


24 posted on 01/31/2008 10:05:37 AM PST by Perdogg (Electing Another Carter to get Another Reagan is a Foolish and Dangerous Strategy)
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To: svcw

Don’t know about base commander but his daddy was a Rear Admiral.........that is why McCain graduated from the Naval Academy. It took him five years when everyone else graduated in four years. He also graduated at the bottom of his class.


25 posted on 01/31/2008 10:05:46 AM PST by RC2
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To: Perdogg

this same guy will prolly make the argument for why bill IS eligible to be VP.


26 posted on 01/31/2008 10:06:00 AM PST by absolootezer0 (white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
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To: All

See #24.


27 posted on 01/31/2008 10:06:30 AM PST by Perdogg (Electing Another Carter to get Another Reagan is a Foolish and Dangerous Strategy)
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To: Perdogg

Pundits are now writing obituaries for Sen. John McCain’s sinking campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.


Which pundits? I wish.


28 posted on 01/31/2008 10:06:31 AM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Perdogg

jeez saying something like this is complete desperation
i dont like mccain but this is just plain silly


29 posted on 01/31/2008 10:06:44 AM PST by DM1
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To: Perdogg

More horse crap. It’s been the law since 1790 that persons born of U.S. citizens are also “natural born” U.S. citizens. Also, the Canal Zone was U.S. territory at the time. I’m not a McCain supporter, but I won’t resort to this kind of nonsense to oppose him.


30 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:02 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Perdogg
Pundits are now writing obituaries for Sen. John McCain's sinking campaign...

What planet is the author living on?

31 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:05 AM PST by McGruff (I am against McCain more than I am for Romney.)
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To: Perdogg

Wow. What an idiot.


32 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:17 AM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Perdogg

That explains a few things: he’s a Panamaniac.


33 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:24 AM PST by tumblindice (Canklesaurus Regina)
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To: Perdogg

The author would have a better chance at proving McCain was only 33 years old.


34 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:55 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: svcw

Just glancing over his bio, it looks like he might have been a bit young for a base command (born 1911) when his son was born. And it said he was a submarine commander during WW2.


35 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:59 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Mind your own business.)
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To: Perdogg
Aren't people born to US citizens automatically US citizens even if born overseas? If so, someone born overseas to a US citizen is a "natural born citizen". Typical of Newsmax they ignore the part that also says that a president must also have been a resident of the US for at least 14 years as well as being a "natural born citizen".
36 posted on 01/31/2008 10:07:59 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Constitution Day

Then I decide it’s a tossup and get back to something more meaningful, like counting blades of grass


I painted my office yesterday. The paint is still drying if you want to come over :)


37 posted on 01/31/2008 10:08:07 AM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Republican Red

Good point, and you would probably make a better President than McCain.


38 posted on 01/31/2008 10:08:07 AM PST by coramdeo
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To: Perdogg

We don’t need to go here. McCain provides numerous and completely apparent reasons to oppose him- desperate tactics are going to backfire.


39 posted on 01/31/2008 10:09:28 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: freedomlover

Not yet. I still have a few million blades to go! :)


40 posted on 01/31/2008 10:09:28 AM PST by Constitution Day
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