Something about TV is fascinating me lately. I don’t have anything smart to say about it yet, but there is something about how TV gets aggregated online that fascinates me. As does this clip below.
In today’s NYT, the headline reads, McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out. In the interest of helping clear up the controversy, yes, McCain is eligible, under section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which gives the child of two US citizen parents citizenship at birth, as long as one of the parents has resided in the US for any length of time prior to the child’s birth. One is a naturally born citizen as long as they are citizens at birth.
But it drums up controversy, obfuscates real questions about McCain’s fitness to lead, wastes time and energy, and is, in the end, another “McCain Has A Black Baby” story.
NYT, the better story is, why can’t McCain’s daughter Bridget ever run for president? As a child adopted internationally, she held citizenship in another country at birth, and while she is a US citizen now, she, and the other quarter of a million children adopted internationally into the United States, are not eligible for the presidency. Why don’t these citizens hold the same rights as their biological siblings?