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In 1936, McCain was born at the Coco Solo Air Base, in the then-American controlled Panama Canal Zone (pictured), to Jack McCain, a Navy officer, and Roberta McCain. If McCain wins the 2008 election, he’d be the first American to take the presidential oath who has an official birthplace outside the 50 states.
“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”
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The account of McCain's birth being in Coco Solo is a fabrication. This was popularized by the McCain legal defense team. The fabrication is that he was born in the Coco Solo hospital at the Naval Air Station. However, no hospital existed at Coco Solo until one was built five years after McCain's birth. Although some people speculated that he must have been born at Colon, the fact of the location of his birth didn't come out until his birth certificate was produced for the U.S. Circuit Court in New Hampshire in late July 2008. This is still not widely known.
Also, his parents did not live on base. They lived in Colon, Republic of Panama. Colon was not part of the Canal Zone in 1936.
There is a good deal of information available at http://PanamaJohn.dominates.us including McCain's birth certificate with affidavit, and more.
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