Another NY Times shot across McCain's bow.

[agcatter]

Yeah, that is funny.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The NY Times is quickly becoming one of my favorite tabloids next to US Weekly and the National Enquirer.

[jimrtex]

also, 8 of the first 9 presidents were not born in the USA.

Weren't they exempted because they were born in the colonies?

No they were exempt because they were a citizen of the United States at the time the Constitution was adopted in 1788.

[jimrtex]

You'd think that a paper like the New York Times could come up with a legal scholar who would be willing to be quoted in the article.

[J. J.]

It's a legitimate concern, though I think the general consensus is that territories are fine.  (Goldwater was born in Arizona in 1909, though obviously he didn't come close to being President).

Oh, and Obama was born in 1961, nearly 2 years after Hawaii became a state.

But his father wasn't an American citizen at the time, was he?  Clinton on a technicality? 

[I'm joking.]