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Is that it puts all of them on the board to be examined, and I am not just talking Panamanian-born McCain's Panamanian birth here (or for that matter, the fact McCain never went through any sort of INS-approved formal naturalization process to become a US citizen after being brought into the US by his parents):

When Mitt Romney released his birth certificate last week, it prompted a slew of sarcastic headlines mocking the move as unnecessary at best, at worst as a nod in the direction of conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama was born outside the country.

But, as it turns out, Romney has his set of detractors questioning his American citizenship — an Internet subculture that embodies the sort of rubber-and-glue politics that's helped define this election, and one that reflects the way fringe voters translate suspicion of a candidate in the Obama era.

Has this "and you cannot be the child of immigrants" thing come up before?

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