Originally Posted by Dankdude

Also this is a real good tidbit..... Not that it makes a difference.

Dept of state: McCain not eligible to be president? !!!!!!
McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at the Coco Solo Air Base in the then-American-controlled Panama Canal Zone.
Take a look at this:

From the US State Department website at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86755.pdf

7 FAM 1116.1-4 Not Included in the Meaning of "In the United States"

(TL:CON-64; 11-30-95)

a. A U.S.-registered or documented ship on the high seas or in the exclusive economic zone is not considered to be part of the United States. A child born on such a vessel does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of the place of birth (Lam Mow v. Nagle, 24 F.2d 316 (9th Cir., 192).

b. A U.S.-registered aircraft outside U.S. airspace is not considered to be part of U.S. territory. A child born on such an aircraft outside U.S. airspace does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of the place of birth.

c. Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth.

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President -- The Constitution of the United States, Article II Section 1

Originally Posted by bongspit

It is wrong to criticize Cindy McCain for plagiarizing recipes from the Food Channel. After all, the ahi tuna and passion fruit mousse recipes were ginned up by some staffer, and were never even seen by Cindy McCain.
America should instead be focused on more important issues when it comes to John McCain. Like how his plan to suspend temporarily the federal gas tax would save the average American, driving 12,000 miles a year, a little more than $27 per year, or enough to buy a pound of ahi tuna through mail order. Or how his pledge to extend the Bush tax cuts for the super wealthy would allow multi-millionaires like John McCain to save over $123,600 a year — enough to buy nearly 2 1/2 tons of ahi tuna.
America should also remember that John McCain’s pledge to keep our troops in
Iraq for 50 to 100 years costs America $340 million per day, and that the $2 trillion that this war will cost would have been enough to provide every American household with renewable energy and enough fuel-efficient vehicles to remove our need to import any energy from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela. And we would still have a few dollars left over to splurge on a seafood dinner, with passion fruit mousse for dessert.

Let’s keep our eyes on the real issues: not who stole what recipes, but how a third term of George Bush, in the person of John McCain, would be a disaster not only for the schools of ahi tuna, but for America and the world.

Originally Posted by Twistyman