Republican John McCain’s past is coming under fire, with people asking whether his place of birth, the Coco Solo Air Base in the formerly American-controlled Panama Canal Zone, makes him ineligible to run for U.S. President:

John McCain was born August 29, 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, to two U.S. citizens. It’s a common misunderstanding that the zone was a U.S. territory - in fact, the U.S. had lease rights, but not territorial rights.

The US Constitution states, “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.”

“Natural Born Citizen” - “is where ONLY the natural act of one being born in a place determines the status of ones citizenship with no additional stipulations necessary to influence that status”

The language is kind of vague… but we’d be very sad if McCain were to be declared ineligible to run because of this and not because of something far more salacious and exciting: His illegitimate black baby! Who isn’t black! Or a baby! But is maybe a flesh-eating robot? Hmmmm.

“No person except a natural born citizen shall be eligible to the office of President” [The American Voice]