This certainly won't be my most intelligent post, but all looped up on cold medicine the fact that there's a lot of race in this race suddenly makes sense.  Geraldine makes racist comments, then accuses the Obama campaign of making her out to be a racist and making the race about race.

Nobody can find any comments from Obama, other than him saying that he doesn't believe she's a racist.

Geraldine is an old lady now. She's not hip to the internet and grass roots support.  She's got a distorted view of race and society because it's all so modern to her.  She thinks that freelance supporters represent Obama's campaign, because back in her day, that's how things worked.

She's not a racist. She's old and out of touch.

I've only seen whispering of the issue, but I feel since it's a constitutional issue, it should be discussed more.

John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which was and is not a part of the United States of America.

The Constitution is clear, that to be eligible as President you must be a natural born citizen, that is someone born in the United States of America.  You must also be 35 years old, and have resided in the country for the last 14 years.

The Constitution allows for only one exception:  If you were born before the United States Constitution was ratified.

By Constitutional standards, McCain is ineligible to be President.  Sure, you may say that it's outdated.  Sure, you may say that McCain's parents were US citizens.  But, you can not say that the Constitution's language isn't clear on this subject.  While it may be politics d'jour to ignore the Constitution, it is still the supreme law of our nation.

The Act of Congress that Mccain's campaign said got him around this (5th Congress, March 26th 1790), but found that this act was repealed by the same Congress, January 29th, 1795, RE-defining such children as just American citizens (not natural-born, as required for Pres. by the Constitution), and that this act was re-repealed April 14th, 1802 by the 6th Congress, keeping the same definition of foreign-born US citizens.


Others have proposed a new act of Congress to allow McCain the Presidency. Yet, ONLY an amendment to the Constitution would be the legal route to allow someone who was not born in the US to become President.

Shouldn't the Republicans be forced to address this now?