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***I just have a question: Can someone tell me why McCain’s ‘natural born’ citizenship status is being questioned? What is the basis of that argument?
I understand the Obama case but not McCain.***

It’s my understanding, though I am not a constitutional scholar, that the Constitution says a president must be a NATURAL born citizen. An example would be that someone born outside the U.S. to citizens of the U.S. would be a CITIZEN with full rights, but not a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN and could not become president.

Wrong - see post 24.

It’s my understanding, though I am not a constitutional scholar, that the Constitution says a president must be a NATURAL born citizen. An example would be that someone born outside the U.S. to citizens of the U.S. would be a CITIZEN with full rights, but not a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN and could not become president.

Your understanding is wrong. Any person born of TWO US citizens, as opposed to someone with only one US citizen parent and one alien parent, is a Natural born citizen no matter where they are born. Bozo falls into the category of not being a Natural born citizen if he was born outside of the US.

There is no difference between native born and natural born. There are only two types of US citizens, those who are natural born and those who are naturalized.

In addition to that, McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone which was a US territory at the time and born to a father who was a Naval Officer, all of which makes him a Natural born citizen no matter where he was born.

It’s my understanding, though I am not a constitutional scholar, that the Constitution says a president must be a NATURAL born citizen. An example would be that someone born outside the U.S. to citizens of the U.S. would be a CITIZEN with full rights, but not a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN and could not become president.

Your understanding is incorrect. Such a person would be a citizen of the United States by nature of their birth, never having been a citizen of any other entity. They would be a natural born citizen since their citizenship came as a result of their birth (natural) and not some other action.

Barrack's father was not a citizen. His mother did not meet the qualifications for passing on citizenship to offspring at the time. She 18 yrs old at the time and a sole US citizen parent must have lived continuously within the borders of the US for 5 years after their 14th birthday to automatically pass citizenship on to offspring. The only way for Barrack to be a citizen as the result of his birth is for it to have taken place on US soil.