I wonder how many other candidates might have campaigned for the office had merely citizenship been the minimal requirement. The present Governor of California comes to mind.
Schwarzenegger is a naturalized citizen.
You are either a natural born citizen, naturalized citizen, or not a citizen at all.
Neither McCain nor Obama have gone through the naturalization process. Thus, if they are not natural born citizens, they are in fact ILLEGAL ALIENS.
We've got a few different classes of citizen here. Arnold is a "made" citizen, in that he is naturalized. Literally "made natural".
Then, there are people who merely qualify as a US citizen. These are people, who through the circumstance of their birth, are US citizens, but not Natural Born Citizens, such as American children born of parents in foreign countries, and not on the soil of a US embassy, or military base. I've got two brothers who fall into that category.
Then, you've got children born to one US parent, and one foreign parent on US soil, as is the purported case with Obama. Donofrio's case contends that he cannot be a Natural Born Citizen because of the citizenship of his father, who was a Kenyan national and subject of Great Britain.
Obama's personal case is even tougher, because under the citizenship laws at the time, his mother could not have conveyed US citizenship to him, because she had not lived for a period of ten years in the United States, five of them being after the age of 14. She was three months shy of her 19th birthday when Obama was born.
The hard-core Obots don't give a damn about any of our citizenship laws, or the US Constitution. They want their Messiah, no matter what laws have to be broken to anoint him Emperor.
I would run. I”m a citizen, just born in italy so i don’t qualify.
I still feel obama ran for president to promote his book and became the accidential president. But that is just my opinion. That is the law we need. Nobody who wrote a book can run for president within so many years of writing that book. These people don’t run because they think they have a chance they run to promote their books