the new supposedly insulting name....birther..
so we get to call the people who asked to see McCain's BC, birthers..
how firggen stupid..they think they can label someone a stupid name and that automatically make this issue go away..or the people asking about it some nutjob...
guess what..it finally hit the lamestream media, and man are frothing at the knees for "the Hugo" trying to spin for his ass..
John McCain was born in Colon, Panama
Panama is a foreign country
However, U.S. installations in foreign countries are not considered part of the United States. So, delivering a baby at a U.S. naval base or embassy in a foreign country does not entitle the baby to U.S. citizenship.
Barach Obama was born in Hawaii
Hawaii is one of the United States of America
The claim is that Obama was born in Kenya.
The US law on citizenship by birth incorporates two traditional legal principles:
* ius soli ("right of the soil"), under which citizenship results from being born in the US, and
* ius sanguinis ("right of the blood"), under which citizenship results from having an American parent or parents.
Section 301 of the INA [8 USC § 1401] defines the following classes of people as having US citizenship from the time of birth:
(3) anyone born outside the US, if at least one parent is a US citizen and certain residency or physical presence requirements were fulfilled by the citizen parent or parents prior to the child's birth;
Under certain conditions, children born outside the US may have US citizenship by birth. This depends on whether one or both parents have US citizenship, how long (if at all) the American parent(s) lived in the US prior to the child's birth, and whether the parents were married to each other or not. The rules have changed several times during the 20th century (mostly in a more liberal direction), so the exact date of one's birth can also be important when determining a claim to citizenship by descent.
Under the current law, if both parents are US citizens and are married, then the child is a US citizen if either parent had a "residence" in the US at any time in his or her life prior to the child's birth. There is no specific minimum period of time in the law for how long a parent must have been in the US in order for his/her status to be accepted as having been "residence" in the US.
If one parent is a US citizen, and the other is not, and the parents are married, then the current law says the child is a US citizen if the American parent was physically present in the US for one or more periods of time totalling at least five years, at some time or times in his or her life prior to (but not necessarily immediately prior to) the child's birth. Additionally, at least two years out the required five years of physical presence must have taken place after the parent's 14th birthday; thus, for example, a parent who was born and grew up in the US, but who left before reaching age 16 and never returned, doesn't meet the requirement.
Prior to 14 November 1986, the physical presence requirement in this case was ten years (instead of five) -- including five years (instead of two) spent after the parent's 14th birthday. The requirement was reduced in 1986, but the change did not retroactively make US citizenship available to people born previously who did not meet the old requirement. (Congress's intent not to make this change retroactive was affirmed in 1988 with the passage of Public Law 100-525, § 8(d), 102 Stat. 2619).
Both John McCain and Barack Obama are legally citizens by birth of the United States of America.
Stop the madness already, for God's sake.
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/law.html#CitByBirth
I don't go anywhere because twerps like you tell me to.