Hit piece #2 from the NYT
WASHINGTON — 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. More at link
Wouldn't it be ironic for a first generation American descendant of Kenya's Nilotic tribe to meet the constitutional requirements for president while the son of a US Naval officer and his American wife posted in the Canal Zone would not qualify.
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