Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 03, 2010
October 02, 2010
October 04, 2010
Transcript:
Mike: Okay, little remote... do my bidding! Remote Control: Yes, master! Reporter: Leader McConnell, 31% of your fellow Republicans believe that the President is a muslim... how do you explain such pervasive ignorance in your party? Mitch McConnell: I can't... when Mr. Obama says he's not a Muslim, I take him at his word. He's our legitimately elected President, apparently. I also accept his version of the facts about his birthplace. I have to give him the benefit of the doubt, because frankly, I wasn't there. Now, I don't know if the President has denied hating whites, but if he has, I'm inclined to believe him. Why would he lie? Because he's black? Or seen as Muslim? I reject that! Mike: Whew!
At the time McCain was running for president, a BIPARTISAN board of lawyers concluded that, by having been born on a military base in the Zone, he was a “natural born citizen,” consistent with legal precedent and the inferred intentions of the authors of the Constitution. The framers could not have foreseen that a century and a half later, the US would have territories and military bases all over the world, where the wives of US servicemen might give birth to potential presidents, and its hard to imagine that they would intentionally exclude someone like McCain. (The Constitution does not actually define “natural born citizen.”)