[danamco]

* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)

Now, somehow this does NOT make any sense to me???

[calenel]

"Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)"

"Now, somehow this does NOT make any sense to me??? "

I am not sure what you mean. The passage is paraphrased and less specific than the actual statute, so I can see that it might be confusing. The meaning of that particular passage is that a child born to a US citizen and an alien (not US citizen, not US national) is a citizen at birth if the US citizen parent has met certain specific residency requirements. I have the exact text on my profile page. For Obama, if he was not born in the US, then he was not a natural born US citizen, because he was not a citizen at all, due to his mother being too young to have met the residency requirements to pass citizenship to him at birth. Does that help?