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New York Times Raises Another Faux Issue On McCain

J.J. Jackson* | February 29, 2008 

The New York Times seems to be pulling out all the stops to raise questions about presidential candidate John McCain. First it was rumors of an affair with a lobbyist that it has no evidence of. Now it is issues about whether or not he is eligible to be President because he was born in the Canal Zone (a United States Territory at the time) and not America proper:

The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.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.

Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”

My word. Doesn’t the times have anything of substance to bring up with regard to John McCain? Is this the sort of reporting we can expect between now and November?

John McCain is a citizen of the United States. He is a natural born citizen because he was born to United States citizens just like anyone born to our military men and women abroad are citizens. The fact that one was born abroad has never been a deterrent to being considered a natural born citizen. But you can bet that if he wins in November some moonbat will try and bring this up to over turn the election.

Come on New York Times! Stop dealing with gutter journalism.

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