McCain 'birthers': ABC, CBS, NBC, FactCheck, N.Y. Times, more

[lynnf]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127362

Eligibility issue was huge in 2008 when Obama opponent was focus of attention

Many of the same news organizations and research groups today dismissing concerns about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility were far more eager to cover the issue when Republican presidential candidate John McCain was the subject.

An archive search shows the question of McCain's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president was actively pursued by Democratic Party activists and the mainstream media in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, despite the ridicule now heaped upon those questioning Obama's qualifications under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

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lynn

[Juan McCain]

. . . was actively pursued by Democratic Party activists . . .



McCain's non-native born status was first brought up by Republicans and others, specifically constitutionalists.

I recall as early as in the 2000 campaign by George Bush when they were opponents for the GOP nomination -
in the early stops on the campaign trail, like Iowa.

McCain's birth in Panama was also brought up in 2004 some - and (?) may have been a consideration
why Kerry eventually passed McCain over in the talks of making McCain his VP over Edwards (?) - that is just conjecture though.

Iowans certainly did not forget this about McCain . . . and the biggest brunt of his many problems in Iowa could
be this obvious distortion about constitutional eligibility, and is partly why
John Sidney McCain III born in Panama was 10th in the Iowa GOP Straw poll -
ahead of John Cox - but with only 0.7% of the Iowa GOP behind him in August 2007.

This NY Times discussion recognizing McCain's Panama problem was of course well before the general election . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html

Constitutionalists are the ones with the problem of McCain being born in Panama -
not "Democrat Party activists".

http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq47/panamajohn/McCainCertificatecloseupcerop.jpg

[Juan McCain]

This part of the article linked in the OP is very irritating . . .

"The Leahy-McCaskill resolution . . . Even this was not enough to stop liberal activists and
the mainstream media from continuing to keep alive questions about McCain's eligibility."

Of course this resolution was NOT enough . . .
- a non-binding resolution by Senators to declare McCain a natural born citizen
wouldn't be an absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous resolution in and of itself . . . ?
regardless of political persuasion ?

It is constitutional activists that recognize both McCain - and the Leahy-McCaskill resolution -
are in complete defiance of some writings put in ink during a balmy summer in Philly in 1787.

Donald Duck was more constitutionally eligible than McCain to be Prez . . .
he was born in the Disney studios at least.