re: #8 Walter L. Newton

Is this racist…

McCain’s Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com…]

No.

A few other details. McCain actually was born in Panama, raising the issue of whether ‘natural born’ means ‘on US soil’, which the Senate is apparently in agreement it does—correctly in my not-much-of-a-Constitutional-scholar’s view. Since then, people have not obsessively insisted that McCain is lying about where he was actually born, or who his father is, claimed that he gave up his U.S. citizenship, demanded to see his birth certificate repeatedly, and generally acted out.

There was a question, good or bad, it was answered, and we moved on. Do you think that if McCain had taken the election we’d still be having this insane argument spawning conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, with elected Democrats too afraid to say it was silly?