Terrific research. Thank you.
I haven’t been following this very much so please forgive my naivety... I was born in Europe and my husband was born here as was our daughter. Is she eligible to be president?
If you were naturalized before your daughter's birth, the answer is yes.
A NBC is a person born on US soil of TWO citizen parentS.
0b0z0 didn't meet this condition by his own admission that his father, the roaming Communist vagabond BO Sr., was a Kenyan/British citizen! Assuming that that was his REAL father.
Was she born on US soil & were you a naturalized US citizen when she was born? If the answer to both is “yes’, then yes she is eligible.
Now, had the feminist movement and progressivism not messed with the tried & TRUE from time immemorial natural law doctrine of the family unit that our founding fathers adopted, where in the wife & all children born into that marriage follow the nationality of the father, the world would be a better place and people wouldn't be paying for all these legal against the US Govt from legal & illegal aliens. This issue costs us taxpayers over a 100 billion dollars a year. A cost we need to cut immediately & get back to enforcing our founding principles of citizenship by consent.
“Is she eligible to be president?”
Yes. That is why McCain, Palin, the RNC and every state GOP refused to challenge Obama based on his father. If you were in the US with the permission of the government, and your child was born here, she is a natural born citizen.
The issue was discussed at length by the Supreme Court long before Obama was born:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html
Many birthers try to add an extra requirement that you both be US citizens at the time of birth, but that wasn’t English law in the colonies, and it didn’t become US law after our independence. Natural born citizen was a legal phrase used in the Constitution by the Founders. It had an established meaning at the time the Constitution was written.
Until the courts say otherwise, it appears your daughter is no less eligible for the Presidency than the man who currently occupies the position. A man who earlier today ordered the most powerful navy in the world to launch a cruise-missile strike against Libya, orders which were carried out.
If you were born in Europe but you became a US citizen and your husband is a US Citizen and your daughter was born in the United States... then she is eligible to become president because she owed no allegiance to a foreign power at birth. That is what this is really all about... allegiance to foreign powers. In Obama’s case he has had since birth foreign allegiances and he has maintained them throughout his adult life. Everyone seems to know this at some level, even his loyal followers. This has been part of his allure which Obama himself cultivated. This is why people around the world were so enamored with him. They felt Obama was first a citizen of the world and second a citizen of the United States. The framers of the constitution thought it was dangerous to have an individual who was not totally committed only to the interests of the United States be our commander in Chief.