If Obama has not be a natural born citizen would the Republicans have attacked?

Question

McCain is not a natural born citizen of the United States. Therefore he is ineligible to be our President. However, no one will touch the issue. Obama runs a clean campaign as he said he would.

McCain has shown he is the typical political attacker showing a strategy of humiliating and abusing his opponent rather than on his own merit to win. Do you think if Obama was not natural born, McCain and the rest of the Republican party would light a fire storm and go to all lengths to make sure he was ineligible?

Answer 1

The first guy is right. You can't run for president if you're not a born U.S. citizen.

Obama '08!

Answer 2

The laws that WOULD have made John McCain a US citizen weren't written until AFTER he was born...

Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship

GABRIEL J. CHIN

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona Eller College of Management, School of Public Administration and Policy

July 9, 2008

Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-14

Abstract:      

Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to U.S. citizen parents. The Canal Zone was territory controlled by the United States, but it was not incorporated into the Union. As requested by Senator McCain's campaign, distinguished constitutional lawyers Laurence Tribe and Theodore Olson examined the law and issued a detailed opinion offering two reasons that Senator McCain was a natural born citizen. Neither is sound under current law. The Tribe-Olson Opinion suggests that the Canal Zone, then under exclusive U.S. jurisdiction, may have been covered by the Fourteenth Amendment's grant of citizenship to "all persons born . . . in the United States." However, in the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court held that "unincorporated territories" were not part of the United States for constitutional purposes. Accordingly, many decisions hold that persons born in unincorporated territories are not Fourteenth Amendment citizens. The Tribe-Olson Opinion also suggests that Senator McCain obtained citizenship by statute. However, the only statute in effect in 1936 did not cover the Canal Zone. Recognizing the gap, in 1937, Congress passed a citizenship law applicable only to the Canal Zone, granting Senator McCain citizenship, but eleven months too late for him to be a citizen at birth. Because Senator John McCain was not a citizen at birth, he is not a "natural born Citizen" and thus is not "eligible to the Office of President" under the Constitution.

This essay concludes by exploring how changes in constitutional law implied by the Tribe-Olson Opinion, such as limiting the Insular Cases and expanding judicial review of immigration and nationality laws passed by Congress, could make Senator McCain a citizen at birth and thus a natural born citizen.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a...

Answer 3

McCain was born to American citizens serving in Panama.

He is a natural citizen.

I may not be voting for him, but that's the law.

Many people have served overseas, working for the armed forces or private companies with branchs overseas, if they deliver in a foreign country that doesn't make them aliens.

I believe the above article has more to do with being born on foreign soil than having to become a naturalized citizen.

Answer 4

I am not a McCain supporter but you should realize that he is a citizen of the US. He was born on a US military base in Panama. That is considered US soil since it is a US military base. Therefore he can run for President.