Well, it seems as if this still has some legs to it:
A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue
"In the most detailed examination yet of Senator
John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the
University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”"
The
analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen.
“It’s preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us...rssnyt&emc=rss
Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
GABRIEL J. CHIN
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona Eller College of Management, School of Public Administration and Policy July 9, 2008
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=1157621#PaperDownload
As I posted before, in truth the only way this issue will ever be determined is if the Supreme Court rules on it.
As as the story indicates, that is highly unlikely.
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