QUOTE(Syfir @ Aug 3 2009, 02:55 AM)

It appears that technically McCain would not have been eligible to be president although I don't think he would have had a problem being seated as President if elected.
I agree on both counts.
If McCain won the popular vote, I think the courts would have done everything possible to avoid hearing a challenge to his citizenship eligibility. But that doesn't resolve the problem for future candidates in the same situation.
And even if they did hear it, I hope they would somehow come to a conclusion allowing the vote to stand. (Because I believe someone in McCain's situation OUGHT to be eligible.) My problem is that in order to do so, they would have to (IMO) hold that the Constitution doesn't really mean what it says.
Constitutional amendment is, therefore, the only satisfactory solution.