I am not a legal beagle.
I see the problem being that no matter where he was born, his mother was a U.S. citizen. And there are residency requirements which must be met to maintain citizenship.
Obama, through no fault of his own, might have lost his U.S. citizenship — either through residency requirements or by the fact that he was legally adopted by an Indoneasian.
I’m sure Obama considers himself to be a U.S. citizen. But he may think he might have some problem with it — hence he is trying to keep the actual records hidden.
But it isn’t going away. He will eventually HAVE to show his birth certificate, I believe.
If born in USA, all other issues are irrelevant. He's a US citizen forever, unless he formally renounces his citizenship.
If born elsewhere, which is possible though not likely, he might still be a "native-born citizen," although some of these residency requirements and other issues might come into play.
It is not possible to "accidentally" lose one's US citizenship. A parent cannot renounce citizenship for a child. Traveling on a foreign passport or even becoming a citizen of another country under their laws does not void citizenship. Our laws do not care what other countries have to say about citizenship.
The only way to lose American citizenship is to formally and in writing renounce it following the prescribed procedures, as an adult. No other way.
“Obama, through no fault of his own, might have lost his U.S. citizenship — either through residency requirements or by the fact that he was legally adopted by an Indoneasian.”
That isn’t how it works. Nowhere does the Constitution say that. Residency requirements do not exist. I could be born in the US and live every day after that abroad and i’d still be an American citizen until I renounce it. Nor does foreign adoption do anything.