USA presidential race(ism)
John Garcia
johngar at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 12:56:03 PDT 2008
afaik, that person would be just like McCain, considered to be a
natural-born citizen.
john
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net>
wrote:
> John Garcia wrote:
> > technically, the first seven Presidents were born in what was at the
> time,
> > colonies of the British Empire. the first President to be born after the
> US
> > became an independent country was Martin Van Buren.
> > John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone to a serving US Navy
> officer
> > and is considered a natural born citizen. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii
> > after it became a state. until the Constitution is changed to permit
> > naturalized citizens to become President, no one born in Austria will be
> > elected President.
>
> What about offspring of someone in the U.S. Foreign Service in Austria
> working at the U.S. embassy, for example?
>
> --[Lance]
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