The same applies to McCain:

[url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Complaint_questions_McCain_citizens_03112008.html]A federal judge in California has been asked to determine if the Republican presidential candidate, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, meets the legal test to qualify for the nation's highest office.

The Constitution requires that only "natural born" citizens hold the presidency, a term on which the Founding Fathers did not elaborate.

A two-page complaint filed March 6 in U.S. District Court in Riverside, Calif., argues that a judge should step in because the constitutional language is not precise, opening questions about the Arizona senator's standing.

The ...

The same applies to McCain:

A federal judge in California has been asked to determine if the Republican presidential candidate, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, meets the legal test to qualify for the nation's highest office.

The Constitution requires that only "natural born" citizens hold the presidency, a term on which the Founding Fathers did not elaborate.

A two-page complaint filed March 6 in U.S. District Court in Riverside, Calif., argues that a judge should step in because the constitutional language is not precise, opening questions about the Arizona senator's standing.

The complaint was filed by Andrew Aames, 52, a Riverside lawyer who has dabbled in local politics, including volunteering for a Democratic congressional campaign. He said he is a registered Republican but previously was a Democrat.

He said he had no political stake in the outcome. A court ruling would clear up any confusion for voters, he added, and McCain has a "very, very good" chance of prevailing.

The Panama Canal Zone was a U.S. territory when McCain was born on Aug. 29, 1936. His father was stationed there by the Navy.

McCain said last month the issue was put to rest 44 years ago when Republican Barry Goldwater sought the presidency. Goldwater was born in Arizona when it was a territory.

and:

Concord, N.H. (AP) --
Weeks after a similar case was filed in California, a Nashua, New
Hampshire man has asked the federal court to rule that Senator John
McCain can't be president because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

Fred Hollander filed suit against McCain and the Republican National
Committee, arguing he and other Republican voters would be
"disenfranchised" if McCain becomes the party's nominee for president.


Hollander's suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court, asks a judge
to order McCain to withdraw, and the GOP to nominate someone else.

Is a child born outside the US to American parents legally eligible
to become President?

(Part 1)

Most likely yes.

The US Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Subsection 4) says:
"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; neither shall any person be
eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of
thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the
United States."

The term "natural born citizen" is not used anywhere else in the
Constitution, and it has ne...

Is a child born outside the US to American parents legally eligible
to become President?

(Part 1)

Most likely yes.

The US Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Subsection 4) says:
"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; neither shall any person be
eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of
thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the
United States."

The term "natural born citizen" is not used anywhere else in the
Constitution, and it has never been the subject of any federal court
ruling.
Hence, its exact meaning could be subject to controversy.

While some have suggested that perhaps a "natural born citizen" must
have been born on US territory (i.e., in keeping with the definition
of a citizen given in the 14th Amendment) -- and news reports dealing
with presidential eligibility almost invariably misstate the rule in
this manner -- the majority opinion of legal experts seems to be that
the term refers to anyone who has US citizenship from the moment of
his or her birth -- i.e., someone who did not have to be "naturalized"
because he/she was born "natural" (i.e., born a citizen).

The first Congress enacted a citizenship law which stated that "the
children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea,
or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as
natural born citizens".
[Act of Mar. 26, 1790, ch. 3,
1 Stat. 104.]
This strongly suggests that the phrase was understood by the framers of
the Constitution to refer to citizenship by birth.

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At least three Presidential candidates in recent memory were born
outside the US proper:


Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican candidate,
was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909
(Arizona did not become the 48th state until 1912).
Goldwater lost the 1964 election to Lyndon Johnson.
George
Romney, a 1968 Republican hopeful, was born in
Mexico in 1907 to American parents who had moved there to
escape anti-Mormon persecution in the US.
(Contrary to a widely held popular misconception, by the way,
Romney's parents were settlers in Mexico, not missionaries.)
Romney's campaign fizzle...

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At least three Presidential candidates in recent memory were born
outside the US proper:


Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican candidate,
was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909
(Arizona did not become the 48th state until 1912).
Goldwater lost the 1964 election to Lyndon Johnson.
George
Romney, a 1968 Republican hopeful, was born in
Mexico in 1907 to American parents who had moved there to
escape anti-Mormon persecution in the US.
(Contrary to a widely held popular misconception, by the way,
Romney's parents were settlers in Mexico, not missionaries.)
Romney's campaign fizzled following a gaffe about his having been
"brainwashed"
by the military establishment into supporting US involvement in
the Vietnam conflict.

John McCain, the 2008 Republican candidate,
was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936
to American parents.

Some questions were raised at the time regarding both Goldwater and
Romney's eligibility for the nation's highest office, but no formal
legal challenge was mounted in either case.
McCain's eligibility for the Presidency has also been questioned by
some, but again, such objections have yet to rise to the level of a
formal action in the courts.

We will probably never really know whether an American citizen
born outside the US can become President (or Vice-President) until a
lawsuit involving such a candidate finds its way into the courts.
This could happen, of course, if a foreign-born candidate were elected
and the electoral college's choice were challenged in court; or, more
likely, if such a candidate's right to federal campaign subsidies
(matching funds) were questioned, or if a challenge were mounted
against a foreign-born candidate's right to be included on a state
ballot.

Thanks, darkeforce, but I got that from a web page dealing with dual citizenship, so I can only take credit for the discovery, not for the words themselves. The important point is that the Constitution never really got around to defining the term "natural born". That leaves a certain amount of wiggle room for the law.

A search on "obama +passport" brought up many hits, but the first hundred or so were only concerned with the illegal snooping in Obama's passport records by some State Department employees early in 2008, which resulted in some firings and reprimands.

Contrary to what CrazyRedHead said (and the allegations in the filings he refers to), it is, indeed, both legal and possible ...

Thanks, darkeforce, but I got that from a web page dealing with dual citizenship, so I can only take credit for the discovery, not for the words themselves. The important point is that the Constitution never really got around to defining the term "natural born". That leaves a certain amount of wiggle room for the law.

A search on "obama +passport" brought up many hits, but the first hundred or so were only concerned with the illegal snooping in Obama's passport records by some State Department employees early in 2008, which resulted in some firings and reprimands.

Contrary to what CrazyRedHead said (and the allegations in the filings he refers to), it is, indeed, both legal and possible to have dual citizenship under US law; the most common is US-Canadian; another example is US-Irish, because even if an Irish immigrant naturalizes and swears loyalty to the US, the Irish government does not recognize that as a revocation of Irish citizenship. Some countries (e.g., Denmark) automatically revoke citizenship if another one is acquired voluntarily. There have been numerous court rulings on the matter in the last century. I'll leave it to others to look into this further, as I have better things to do than counter the rants of a crazy redhead. Since a lawsuit filing can make any allegation its filer wants regardless of facts, It's up to CrazyRedHead to provide some sources that are not part of the Berg filing.