Over the weekend, my son pointed out that we now had a candidate from the first and the last states (DE and AK). With Obama being born in HI we have 3 out of 4 that are from small, niche states. McCain isn’t from some small obscure state, he’s from Arizona, right? Well, sorta.
McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone. The Constitution states that in order to be eligible to be President, the person must be “a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution…” So, if McCain is eligible to be President after being born in a US territory, then couldn’t one reasonably state that the whole argument used to deny the application of the Constitution in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (where the US has a lease on land from a former Cuban Government) is utter bullshit.
Perhaps there are technicalities involved here, I don’t know, but it would seem as if McCain would have to reverse the position of the Bush administration if he wanted to claim eligibility to hold the office of President.