You know the funniest thing about all this? John McCain was not born in the U.S. AT ALL!!
He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which does not even qualify as a U.S. Territory, like, say, American Samoa or Midway Island or the Marshall Islands.
Until given back to Panama, the Panama Canal Zone was a military “zone of occupation” like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. McCain IS a citizen but only due to a quirk in the law that says he is a citizen if born of U.S. citizens in special circumstances, like the Canal Zone (another is aboard ship on the high seas; or in a detention camp in another country, etc.).
No one talked about this during the campaign but Obama had more cred about being a natural born citizen than McCain. Perhaps that’s why McCain downplayed the issue during the campaign - smart move, for him.
You know the funniest thing about all this? John McCain was not born in the U.S. AT ALL!!
He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which does not even qualify as a U.S. Territory, like, say, American Samoa or Midway Island or the Marshall Islands.
Until given back to Panama, the Panama Canal Zone was a military “zone of occupation” like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. McCain IS a citizen but only due to a quirk in the law that says he is a citizen if born of U.S. citizens in special circumstances, like the Canal Zone (another is aboard ship on the high seas; or in a detention camp in another country, etc.).
No one talked about this during the campaign but Obama had more cred about being a natural born citizen than McCain. Perhaps that’s why McCain downplayed the issue during the campaign - smart move, for him.