Lew, I noted one interesting point in that article on McCain’s eligibility: “In April, the Senate approved a nonbinding resolution declaring that Mr. McCain is eligible to be president. Its sponsors said the nation’s founders would have never intended to deny the presidency to the offspring of military personnel stationed out of the country.”

Is it possible the nation’s founders never envisioned that U.S. military personnel would be stationed outside our borders? I think they would be quite wary of having a chief executive born in some far-flung corner of an empire. It’s no surprise, of course, that the Senate, in its haste to ratify the candidacy of one of its own, would completely misrepresent the “republic, if you can keep it” generation.