October 5th, 2010 
Admin Question by AckAck_Eagle: Is John McCain a Legal Candidate for US President?
The US Constitution states that only “a natural born citizen” can serve. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Territory. Both his Mother/Father were US citizens. Is Juan McCain a “natural born citizen”?
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Answer by janie
He is legal- look it up. This isn’t new info….
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You’re an idiot.
If you are a U.S. Citizen at birth then you are natural born.
Did he grow up in Panama? No.
He is qualified.
He should be excluded for many reasons, not to mention being Censured by the Justice Department in the S@L scandal, and for treason when he gave secrets to the Vietcong enemy for better treatment.
What kind of Patriot is he? A Neocon kind which means NONE.
Yeah no matter where on earth or mars or in the solar system or universe you are born, if you are born to US citizens you are a US citizen.
A federal judge has been asked to make the call on it, although consensus seems to be that he is a legal candidate. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/politics/main3977521.shtml
Look up the law yourself. Get educated.
Yes, Panama Canal Zone is a territory of the US.
This topic is pretty much futile. He is the Republican nominee and you can’t really do anything about it.
John McCain divorced his first wife when she got disfigured in an auto accident, and then married the rich woman with whom he was having an affair, Cindy. Cindy took McCain from his bureaucratic position in D.C., where McCain was riding his father’s coat-tails, to Arizona, and her money turned McCain into a politician. No matter his irrational temper, his two-faced approached to lobbyists, his active cancer, and his tendency to fall asleep. If we are talking about moral imperatives then I suppose a presidential candidate’s ethics are germane. McCain is a hypocrite, and while he and Clinton deserve one another, Obama WILL sweep to the presidency in a reward to the American electorate. Finally.
It’s legal. He was born on an American military base in Panama, which means it’s considered American soil.
“Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-bor...
Both of McCain’s parents were U.S. citizens. However, both statutes passed by Congress and U.S. Supreme Court case law have consistently treated those born on foreign soil of U.S. parents (”citizens at birth”) differently than those born on U.S. soil (”natural born citizens”). For instance, a child born on foreign soil of U.S. citizen parents is not a U.S. citizen if his/her parents have never resided in the U.S. Also, a child born on foreign soil of U.S. parents can fail to qualify as a U.S. citizen if citizenship is not assert by a certain age. Neither of these conditions would apply to a child born on U.S. soil.”
http://andrightlyso.com/2008/02/28/mccai...
Only a “natural born citizen” is eligible to the Office of President. John McCain is a “citizen at birth”, thus not eligible. No legislation can change his status to the “natural born citizen” as this would be naturalization. The only way he can be elected legally is if the Constitution is amended.
Juan McCain?
anyways yes he’s a natural born citizen because he was born at the U.S. military base Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. parents.
BOTH of his parents were American citizens living on a US base.
shouldn’t you be questioning Obama and his muslim rumors?
That depends on the interpretation of the constitution.
Especially that of ” a natural born citizen” part of it.
“Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution contains the clause:
“ No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The constitutional wording has left doubts about whether those born on foreign soil are on an equal footing with those whose birth occurred inside the country’s borders, and whether they have the same rights.”
So the argument can go both ways. If you are born in foreign soil, are you a natural born citizen? That seems to be the gist of this controversy.
he was born on us milatry he is legal for god shakes leve it alone.
He like many other children of servicemen posted overseas was born on a US miltary base which is NOT part of the country that it’s in but is in fact US territory[along with embassies ] >If you don’t believe that to be the case then try attacking one and see who responds -and with what
What kind of want-to-be lawyers does this site have?
At the time of his birth, McCain’s parents were residing at an American military base in Panama Canal Zone. Even overseas bases are considered American territory, as are American embassies and consulates. When in doubt, ask a military brat born overseas. Even if one parent is not an American citizen (both of McCain’s parents were), the child born on an American military base to an American is a naturally born American.
I have known plenty of naturally born American citizens were born in places like Subic Bay and Ramstein Air Force Base.
All children born to American parents serving in the military overseas are all recognized as American citizens.
The Panama Canal Zone was a US controlled territory from 1903 to 1979. So yes he was a US citizen at birth, because of where he was born, and that both parents were US Citizens at the time.