It was very interesting to watch excitable right-wingers try to spin reasons why the black man born in Hawaii wasn't a valid presidential candidate but the white guy who wasn't born in America was perfectly suitable for the presidency.

In my opinion John McCain should be fully eligible, but when he was born there was a legal vagueness regarding people who were neither born within the US nor in a country not the US. This loophole was quickly plugged to bring the law as written in line with the law as it was meant to be...but an argument the other way is not obviously wrong.