{"id":12671,"date":"2008-02-28T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/28\/a-natural-born-president.html"},"modified":"2008-02-28T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:23:49","slug":"a_natural_born_president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/a_natural_born_president.html","title":{"rendered":"A natural-born president?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the potential objections (and there are many) to John McCain becoming President, the question of whether he qualifies as a “natural-born citizen”<\/a> (as the Constitution requires), having been born in the Panama Canal Zone where his father, a Navy officer, was stationed, is probably the goofiest and most trivial. Let’s move on.<\/p>\n

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Of all the potential objections (and there are many) to John McCain becoming President, the question of whether he qualifies as a “natural-born citizen” (as the Constitution requires), having been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20561,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/david-barton-is-a-dolt-biblically-plagiarized-constitution-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":12671,"position":0},"title":"David Barton is a Dolt (Biblically Plagiarized Constitution Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Mar-11 11:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know the Constitution was actually all taken from the Bible? 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