McCain's Citizenship Status Was Objectively Unclear

Even the NYT was willing to admit it--or at least print something admitting it:

   In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”
   The analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen.
   “It’s preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.”
   Several legal experts said that Professor Chin’s analysis was careful and plausible. But they added that nothing was very likely to follow from it.

Chin: "Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship"

It never made any sense that it was all perfectly clear...but the Senate passed a resolution declaring him eligible anyway...because it was already perfectly clear...

Also, does this mean that Chin is a racist?