Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Because We've Got Nothing Else

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

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[Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively] and others who have explored the arcane subject in depth say legal argument and basic fairness may indeed be on the side of Mr. McCain, a longtime member of Congress from Arizona. But multiple experts and scholarly reviews say the issue has never been definitively resolved by either Congress or the Supreme Court.

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Ms. Duggin favors a constitutional amendment to settle the matter.

  NY Times

Don’t tell me we’re going to have to fix the law for John McCain, and start paving the way for Arnold in 2012.

On the other hand, unless he was hatched from an egg, I’d say he was “natural-born”.

“He was posted there on orders from the United States government,” [Senator Lindsey] Graham said of Mr. McCain’s father. “If that becomes a problem, we need to tell every military family that your kid can’t be president if they take an overseas assignment.”

  


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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