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McCain eligibility in question?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Simon_Cowbell, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    That would be correct...unless the kid renounces his US Citizenship to become a Canuckistani
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Wrong. If you aren't born a citizen of this country you can't be president. Last time I checked McCain has never been a citizen of Panama.
     
  3. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Unless the child went to experience the Windsor Ballet.
     
  4. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Hmm ... interesting debate.

    Say a couple gets pregnant and decides to marry. They go on their honeymoon to the Canadian side of Niagra Falls in her seventh month and she goes into labor prematurely. The child is born on the Canadian side. I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that child is ineligible to run for President.

    My gut says, if both parents are American-born citizens and the child is born outside our borders, he or she should still be eligible.

    If one or both parents were born outside the country and became naturalized citizens, but had the child outside the U.S., he or she would not be eligible.


    Oh ... and if McCain was born on an American base, that's American territory, as far as I'm concerned and this whole argument is moot.
     
  5. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    This is the best the DNC can come up with? They're really slipping.
     
  6. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    That's nonsense. The only constitutional requirement is "natural born citizenship", meaning you obtained citizenship through birth, which people born to American citizen parents on overseas bases undisputably do. The only people excluded are those like who obtained citizenship by naturalization years after birth (like Schwarzeneggar), and even that's a dumb antiquated requirement. This is a silly non-issue.
     
  7. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Agreed, pern. I supose their could be more of an argument in the circumstances you mention, but as you say, an American military base is American territory, which makes this whole thing pointless.
     
  8. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Well, this moron learned something new today.

    Why I love this site and you numb chucks!
     
  9. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Sounds like this whole thing was concocted by someone who needs a refresher on the Constitution.
     
  10. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    I'm not sure America is ready for a Panamanian in the White House...
     
  11. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Check his suits. If they're linen, strike his name from the ballot.
     
  12. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Re: How is McCain even eligible to run for President?

    Dumb, antiquated argument... sort of like assuming the musket-toting forefathers wrote the right to bear arms with assault weapons in mind?
     
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