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Several Internet sites have recently published news stating that McCain might not be eligible to run for the Presidency because he was born in a US naval base in Panama. In fact, a Mr. Lawrence has suggested, in one of those sites, that Clinton and Obama would take McCain to court on these charges, were he to win the election. Lawrence alleges that the Solo Naval Zone hospital had yet to be built when McCain was born in 1936. Mr. Lawrence states the hospital was built during WWII. He asserts that if his parents did not register his birth, "using form no.240, when he (McCain) was born," McCain is not a U.S. citizen. Furthermore, Lawrence speculates that McCain was born in the same hospital where his mother gave birth to him. My academic and first-hand acquaintance with Latin American issues allows me to speculate that McCain, as part of the elite, was probably born in the best private hospital in Panama. This should be a relatively easy legal matter to sort out, if Mr. Lawrence is correct, though he warns that there are a lot of regulations to applied to the children of American citizens born in Panama.
This matter immediately brings to mind the issue of "natural born citizen" category included by the Framers in the Constitution to accommmodate Alexander Hamilton, should he have chosen to run for the Presidency, as he was also born elsewhere. (West Indies) Life has changed a lot since then.
This is not the only problem that McCain will encounter in this race as far as Latino issues are concerned. Some erroneously believe all Mexicans, including illegal aliens, vote in the Presidential election. Only those who are US citizens are eligible to vote. This bloc of voters is composed of family-oriented voters who respect life and the inalienable rights of all. Benito Juarez said: "Respect for the rights of others means Peace." And those rights, American voters with Mexican roots understand, also apply to the rights of people in other countries. They understand that those rights include the right of people in other countries to remain alive. Likewise, they are not likely to vote for a candidate who will use their own kin as cannon fodder for another hundred years.
Furthermore, the long forgotten issue of young Elian will come home to roost in the case of Clintons and their Attorney General, Janet Reno. There goes Hillary's Cuban vote in Florida and elsewhere. She also committed a faux pas in Florida recently, by not taking into account that 55% of American voters of Cuban extraction now wish to be able to go to Cuba whenever they want. The great majority of them are those who left Cuba when Fidel Castro trashed the Constitution and replaced it with a worthless, one-sided document that abolished individual freedoms and the balance of powers. The Cuban bloc of voters also includes the children of those just mentioned, and now, 49 years later, also their grandchildren. They don't want to see the same thing to happen in The United States of America.

This leaves us with Obama, thus far unable to get a significant portion of the Latino vote. Passions were stirred not so long ago, when President Fox, stated that illegal Mexican aliens were willing to take jobs that were refused by blacks. Racist spins were then built around the remarks made by Fox. It would be a time-consuming, and perhaps even worthless effort to speculate on Fox's intentions when he made those remarks,but many Mexicans know NAFTA has not turned out to be a total success, to say the least. The so-called Treaty, went into effect shortly before Salinas de Gortari absconded with hundreds of millions of dollars ushering the way for Zedillo.
(You do the math!)
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