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He was born in Kenya.

The mother was too young to meet the requirements of the law at that time, to transfer U.S. Citizenship to her child.

Read Citizenship Rules for People Born Outside the United States

All persons born in the United States are citizens of the U.S. (with the minor exception of certain children of diplomatic personnel). This is perhaps the only simple rule of U.S. citizenship. Persons born abroad before May 24, 1934, to a U.S. citizen father who had resided in the U.S. at any point before the birth are considered U.S. citizens at birth. The status of the mother did not matter unless the child was born out of wedlock. In 1940, Congress passed a law making illegitimate children born abroad to U.S. citizen women citizens if the mother had resided in the U.S. However, under this law, if the child was legitimated by the foreign national father before his or her eighteenth birthday, the child would not be considered a citizen. The U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. prior to the birth. This residence could have been in the U.S. itself, or in certain U.S. territories. The rules changed for people born between May 24, 1934, and January 13, 1941. In 1934, Congress passed a law allowing U.S. citizen parents, regardless of their gender, to pass citizenship to their children born abroad. If both parents were citizens, only one was required to have resided in the U.S., and as with the previous law, there was no required length of time that the parent must have resided in the U.S. Illegitimate children born aboard between 1934 and 1941 became citizens under the general provision. The rules changed again for people born between January 14, 1941, and December 23, 1952. When one parent was a citizen and the other a foreign national, the rules changed substantially. To pass on citizenship, the citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for at least 10 years before the birth of the child, and at least five of those years had to be after the parent turned 16. Children born out of wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother who met the residence requirements were automatically citizens. For a child born out of wedlock to a U.S. citizen father, to obtain U.S. citizenship the child must have been legitimated before the age of 21. The rules changed again for people born between December 23, 1952, and November 13, 1986(BHO was born in 1961...so this would pertain to him) When one parent was a U.S. citizen and the other a foreign national, the U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to the birth of the child, with five of the years after the age of 14. (Ann Dunham was only 18...so she was~according to the law in effect at the time~UNABLE to confer US citizenship to BHO,Jr) Children born out of wedlock to a U.S. citizen mother were U.S. citizens if the mother was a resident in the U.S. for a period of one year prior to the birth of the child. Children born out of wedlock to a U.S. citizen father acquired U.S. citizenship only if legitimated before turning 21.

‘But I never bought in to the theory that he was born in Kenya. The Logistics don’t work. From the available evidence I have seen, he was either born in Hawaii, Washington state, or Canada.’

DL, I would agree with your conclusion except for one thing. Namely, the transcripts from the Kenyan National Assembly following Obama’s presidential win. Back when they were readily available, I read them over several times. There is no question that the MPs come right out and say Obama was born there. They all agree; there is not one MP who clarifies the record by referring to Obama’s father or to a HI birth, or who makes any other objection.

The part that always interested me most, however, was what the president of the Assembly said. He noted that Obama had called him in the middle of the night, Kenyan time, on the very day Obama won the presidency. Obama asked the president of the Kenyan Parliament to ‘take care of this for me.’ The president agreed to do so—and indeed, says he is actually in the process of doing so at that very moment.

What he actually does is cut off calls for special recognition, at least at that time, of Obama’s Kenyan birth. He then moves the discussion on to the regular order of business.

Now why would all those MPs be so confused? According to several Obot/moonbat sites I read, the Kenyans were simply “wrong.” I.e.: they all actually DID believe Obama was born in Kenya, but according to the Obot commentators, they were simply mistaken.

I really struggle with that. It always sounded to me like a case of white liberal racism. Iow, ‘we American liberals are smart while the black Africans are stupid.’

Is that all there is to the whole National Assembly issue? The Kenyans simply being too clueless to know who was and wasn’t born in their own country?

No, I no longer have the link. It used to be readily available, but I haven’t searched for it lately. The last time I found it and read the complete transcript, I got a major virus on my computer. I haven’t looked for it since. I read somewhere that the transcript is hard to find these days. That may be true; I don’t know.

Anyway, that is the single biggest obstacle between me and considering other options for Obama’s birth. I can’t consider HI because I don’t believe his mother could have lived there for that many mos, delivered a baby in the hospital, brought it home, etc., without *anyone* noticing. The lack of ***any*** evidence that she was in Honolulu during her pregnancy tells me she wasn’t there. [Plus, if she’d been there, her address would have been used on the birth announcements, as opposed to an address at which neither she nor the baby ever resided.]

If you care to comment, I’d be interested in your thoughts. Thanks in advance.

[I recently saw an article online (which I could probably find for you, if you wanted to read it) that contained all the MPs’ quotes stating that Obama Jr was born in Kenya. It left off the single most interesting quote, however, which is the one where the president of the Assembly spoke of his middle-of-the-night chat w President Elect Obama. For me, that quote is the decisive one. Why would Obama call this person and ask for a favor on such an occasion? Is there some other issue he could have been alluding to, or are birth issues the only ones that could realistically apply in context?]

Note: some of the quotes are at the link below, including a comment attributed to Stanley Ann about “returning to Kenya.’ According to the anti-birthers she was never there. Very hard to ‘return’ to a place you’ve never been:

http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/WhatToBelieve.htm]