[MHGinTN]

Are you aware that democrats in the Senate (April 2008) stated that the reason McCain was 'eligible was because both of his parents were American citizens'? It appears that the Senate had no quarrel with McCain being a citizen and they certainly did not account him a naturalized citizen, yet they passed a resolution stating that because he was born to two American citizen parents, he was by their calculus a natural born citizen and therefore eligible for the presidency. ... I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter in your charade what the actual record holds, only that you live up to your screen name.

[chaosagent]

Yes, I know about the Senate resolution.

Many people think it was a smoke screen to help Obama with his problems in this matter.

You jumped into a thread I was having with Beckwith based on the contention that to be a natural born citizen you have to be born of two US citizens in one of the 50 states.

There seems to be some validity on both sides of the argument.

Some findings say if you’re born in the US you are a natural born citizen.

Some findings say if you’re born of two US citizens and in the US you are a natural born citizen.

And some say if you both your parents are US citizens then it doesn’t matter where you are born.

That’s the discussion.

Read all the posts. Someone said that Bobby Jindal couldn’t be President because his parents weren’t citizens when he was born in Louisiana. But a lot of people seem to be talking about him running for President.

And based on what other rulings say, McCain couldn’t be President either, no matter what the Senate Resolution (Not a Law) said.

Bill Richardson ran for President last year. He was born in the US but his mother was not a US citizen.

I don’t remember anyone saying he wasn’t eligble.

And this is what I’m getting at. There doesn’t seem to be ONE definition of ‘natural born citizen’

And no, I don’t think Obama is a natural born citizen.