My take on the article was the same as yours. The author made an effort to report the facts and keep personal bias out. I appreciate that — so many these days are tragically incapable of keeping themselves out of the articles. However, as you mentioned, once again the distinction between “citizen” and “natural born” citizen is glossed over by the Obama advocates. That makes me mad. They are word-playing and they know it. It is deceptive and irresponsible.
I have yet to see one of these "objective" articles say that Obama "claims" to have been born in Hawaii, or "claims" to be a Christian. They all state it as gospel that is "was" born in Hawaii or "is" a Christian, when in fact, no one knows. However, by his actions he has made it manifestly suspect that he is neither a natural-born citizen nor a born-again Christian.