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I want the best POTS for the USA

I'm kind of partial to cast iron, with the ceramic lining.

Apparently he has drunk the Birther Kol Aid. His fatherhood of his daughters conveys no special knowledge upon him as to NBC.

No, probably going through their naturalization processes did that.

I respect the customary reading of the constitution

Try reading the unanimous opinion in Minor vs Happersett, which lays out the proper Constitutional definition, in a Supreme Court document.

which, whether you like it or not, made Obozo, Cruz and Rubio eligible

Well, either that, or it didn't.

One American parent and/or birth in the US.

The Constitution says no such thing.

I know that you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to believe the Birther kool aid but it is just not tru

Well, it was good enough for all the Presidents prior to Obola, I don't know why you'd want to continue wallowing in that RAT corruption and support the massive hoax they visited on the American People.

What you reference in Minor vs. Happersett is DICTA, about as effective as including a statement that the sky was blue that day. The issue in Minor vs. Happersett was not "natural born" citizenship, but rather whether the plaintiff there, a suffragette, could FORCE Missouri to allow her to vote by a decision of the courts aand ultimately of SCOTUS. The holding was NO.

Chester Arthur was a conservative Republican, a so-called Stalwart. Check out his status. Born certainly in Canada, probably of Canadian parents. Are you pretending to be an expert on the citizenship status of all those who served as POTUS? That would be a hopeless task according to strict Birther fantasy. Was M3R qualified by those standards? Goldwater? George Romney? John McCain? All other major party POTUS candidates? You might get easy research on birthplace. Citizenship of parent(s) not so much.

I am kind of partial to missionary pots for Birthers. Maybe Obozo's Kentyan relatives can supply them? I am not going to apologize either, at my age, for dropping a letter every now and then.

The constitution most certainly does not enshrine Birther fantasy that would require TWO American parents AND birth in the US. Also the XIVth Amendment has something to say about birthplace but not restrictively so and NOTHING about citizenship of parents. The XIVth Amendment is, by definition, enacted SUBSEQUENT to the original constitution and therefore, modifies it to the extent necessary. That rule of judicial construction is as ironclad as any and guarantees that we have an ongoing ability to legislate changes in constitution or law, by amendment or statute as may me appropriate to the change.

Why resist Birtherism? Because it plays no role in our constitution and Trumpettes are cute when they are pissed. It's fun to enforce the constitution AS WRITTEN against any and all who would distort it.