Boy that would be news to me. Thank God you have no clue what you're talking about.
I was born in the US prior to my parents' naturalization. My parents had to wait 5 years to take the Oath, as was required by law and I arrived like year 2 of their waiting period.
Per the Naturalization Act of 1952 which was in effect at the time for both me AND Obama, I am a native born US Citizen, but not "Natural Born" because my parents were not yet citizens. I enjoy all the same benefits as any other natural born citizen, except I can not run for presdient.
Leo is correct in his premise. Obama is not eligible. Period.
The problem is US law doesn’t specifically state what “Natural Born” is, that term is vague. Donofrio is not correct because British Common Law doesn’t define US Citizenship standards, per the Constitution Article 1 Section 8- only Congress can define what are our Citizenship standards. Title 8 of the US code does define what citizenship is and doesn’t use the British Common Law or any other foreign law in its definition. In Obama’s case, if he was born in Hawaii and his mother was a citizen, then he is a citizen, no preconditions. The challenge comes in if he was born in Kenya because even if his mother was born in the US and a citizen, she may not have met the residency requirements of Title 8 to pass along citizenship (if her and Obama’s father where legally married, another bag of worms there.)
Unless your parents were foreign diplomats, I believe you ARE a natural born citizen — but the court is never going to officially define it, so all we have to go on is what the term meant then. If you were born in a given country you were a “natural subject” of its king or other government.
Then you are a natural born citizen unless your parents were diplomats or members of a hostile occupying army (are you a La Raza baby?) Or, prior to 1924, a member of an Indian tribe subject to tribal law.
So are you saying that it didn’t matter that Obama’s mother was a citizen at his birth? I don’t buy that. Show me the law.