McCain not natural born?

[EPW]

I brought it up and was ridiculed endlessly.

[Mercator]

Yes! That way the Republicans will have to rush through an amendment allowing foreign-born citizens to run for president, clearing the way for Schwarzenegger in 2012!

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Mercator
Yes! That way the Republicans will have to rush through an amendment allowing foreign-born citizens to run for president, clearing the way for Schwarzenegger in 2012!

I feel the birth of a conspiray. McCain is just a puppy that will allow the election of teh terminator as pres.

[Will9]

Originally posted by EPW
I brought it up and was ridiculed endlessly.

I just searched and found your post. Your problem was you didn't describe the situation accuratly.

[Japher]

I miss voted. I voted "Yes, McCain supporter"... stupid hanging chad!

[Theben]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Eh, a country, that is build on emigrants, and doesn't let one run for the highest office?

How do you build a country on emigrants?

[Dinner]

I get so tired of this ****. Partisan Republicans claim Obama is an illegal immigrant and partisan Democrats claim McCain isn't a natural born citizen. They're both natural born so stop repeating this garbage.

[EPW]

Originally posted by Will


I just searched and found your post. Your problem was you didn't describe the situation accuratly.

I described it more accurately than you

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Theben


How do you build a country on emigrants?

lots of duct tape,boards, and wheels would presumably be involved.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Whoha


lots of duct tape,boards, and wheels would presumably be involved.

Its kinda hard to do that they after they have left the country

[Tattila the Hun]

Immigrant, perhaps? Of course, he is an emigrant in his native country.

And obviously, I mean building on the shoulders of said immigrants. Strong bunch.

[Winston]

This is the worst constructed and worded poll in the history of the Internet. After much deliberation, I voted no, but I'm still not sure it'll be taken the way I intended.

[Victor Galis]

I imagine that if the Dems tried to use this, there'd be a huge backlash.

I also think the natural-born requirement is retarded.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
...I also think the natural-born requirement is retarded.

Except it was written into the Constitution and the insistence of George Washington and other Founding Fathers.

Here is the weak point of Professor Chin's argument:

In 1937, Congress addressed the problem, enacting a law that granted citizenship to people born in the Canal Zone after 1904. That made Mr. McCain a citizen, but not one who was naturally born, Professor Chin said, because the citizenship was conferred after his birth.

There are two ways of becoming a citizen. Either be a natual-born citizen or go through the naturalization process that all our immigrant citizens have gone through. Chin agrees McCain is a citizen. McCain was never naturalized. Ergo, he must be a natural-born citizen.

Point Two: Prof. Chin assumes the statute did not confer natural-born citizenship retroactively. Why would Congress see a problem but fix it only for children who were to be born after the statute passed?

McCain [as well as Goldwater (born in the Arizona territory) Romney (born in Mexico), Gore (born in the District of Columbia] are all natural-born citizens.

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler

Except it was written into the Constitution and the insistence of George Washington and other Founding Fathers.

And that makes it less retarded how?