As a Navy brat whose oldest daughter is foreign-born (I was studying in Canada at the time) and thus has dual citizenship, that whole farrago of nonsense about McCain was extremely irritating to me as well. The Supreme Court established the matter ages ago, iirc, so this resolution should have been unnecessary; hopefully, as long as they felt the need to do it, it will benefit you and others as well.

Thanks Philip for bringing this to our attention. I too was born to 2 natural born U.S. citizens while my U.S. Army dad was stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana, in 1943. At least I have heard some people consider Louisiana a foreign country.

The "natural born Citizen" clause

This is a very big issue that much of the press has dismissed. It is not generally a popular issue today, but if John McCain gets elected, a year from now, this issue will be bigger than ever. Those who would protest McCain's presidency could use this. It is important to settle the matter before the election.

It would be an embarrassment for McCain to be sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and later for the court to need to objectively deal with the issue. It makes the 2000 election and the vote recount look like so much of nothing.

See more discussion at http://PanamaJohn.dominates.us/forum and take part.

PJ, it's not an issue at all. It was settled by SCOTUS a long time ago. It's now been reaffirmed by the Senate. Children born to American citizens are natural-born American citizens, regardless of where they're born. Period. End of sentence.

So if any of you want to write me in, feel free. ;-)

Wouldn't it be hilarious if John McCain couldn't be president because his parents happened to be out of the country under orders from the US defense department while the child of some drug smugglers who stopped to deliver a baby illegally in the US could be President?

The only thing more bizarre would be to arrest border patrol agents for shooting at fleeing drug smugglers on the border and then giving those drug smugglers a free green card to testify against the border patrol agents which they immediately use to transport more drugs across the border.

Life can be funny sometimes.

OK Milly.

I need your help. I'll consider you as a running mate if:

You'll tell me what "moonpiest" means?

Why is there a t on the end? I'm an actual thinkling and I think I was MIA when you started useing terms like "moonpie" on here.

What does it mean, Milly?

Oh, and one more things, aren't our politics slightly different? :) We may have to settle for being friends in the same way that Scalia and Ginsburg are.

A MoonPiest eats the MoonPie. We don’t call it a whoopee pie, those are different and we know it. We vote how we want and we don’t judge the others for different choices. Some days we like to sit on the fence and watch the big boys debate, we have our MoonPies of course.
The T is to honor Big T Bird. ;-}
As for political views I can be I ain’t easy but I can be tricked. ;-) Honestly I hate party lines. I’m a conservative Dem. I do have a brother who is a lobbyist and a big time liberal Dem (Sorry Bro Mark I know how dedicated you are to the Dems.)
It would be interesting to see a couple of folks who have some different views as running mates.

All we are saying is give MoonPies a chance.
Peace

I don't don't have a yellow smiley or we could see how we'd look together

Milly,
If it makes you feel better Jared and Bill don't have yellow smiley's either unless you count or

What is the history of "Moon Pies" to describe political views. Did that start here at thinklings or did that come from you and your fam?

A Conservative Dem? Hmmmm. Well if Lieberman and McCain can do it, maybe so can we. :gmoonpie: Oh, well, I thought I'd give it a shot.

I think the MoonPiest started here.

No it doesn't make me feel better not having a yellow smiley.

Ya'll know McCain is a Conservative Dem right?

I think we could do it! All we need is some start up cash. Pony up folks.