“John McCain, who ran for the Republican party nomination in 2000 and is the presumptive Republican nominee in 2008, was born at the Coco Solo U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. parents. Although the Panama Canal Zone was not considered to be part of the United States,[5] federal law states that “Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States”.[6] The law that conferred this status took effect on August 4, 1937, one year after John McCain was born — albeit with retrospective effect, resulting in McCain being declared a U.S. citizen from birth.[7]‘

[7]

http://www.uscis.gov/propub/ProPubVAP.jsp?dockey=5c120f70fdcb9ef456da2cf56ac50e6a
Interpretation 303.1 United States citizenship acquired in the Canal Zone; Republic of Panama.

(a) The Canal Zone
(b) The Republic of Panama

(a) The Canal Zone The Republic of Panama leased the Canal Zone in perpetuity to the United States by treaty ratified February 26, 1904. 1/ The first legislative enactment of August 4, 1937, conferred United States citizenship, as of such date, on all persons born in the Canal Zone, after February 25, 1904, and before the 1937 date, whose fathers, mothers, or both were United States citizens at the time of such persons’ birth. By the same act, persons born on or after the 1937 date, under the same conditions of parentage, were declared to have similar status at birth.

Under the Act of October 14, 1940, 2/ and the section under discussion, comparable provisions bestow citizenship under identical conditions whether the person was born before or after the effective dates of the respective statutes.

Clint’s medicine!

HA! HA!

I hope you have a good time in Vegas!

What would you all like to toast?

Tampagurl and I will have a drink but we might not join you in a round of Kumbaya.