[Zhang Fei]

....citizenship “at birth” of one born outside of the United States to only one citizen-parent, that such citizen parent have resided in the United States for not less than ten years, at least five of which were after the age of fourteen (8 U.S.C. §1401(a)(7)) (1958 ed.) We all know Mr. Obama’s mother didn’t met this requirement.

Even if Obama were born in Kenya, I believe the amendments to the law are retroactive in their effect.

[Yaelle]

Fascinating. The addendum changing the mother’s necessary stay in the USA to 2 years after age 14 from five years after age 14 happened in 1986.

Thus in 1986 it could be said that Barack Obama was RETROACTIVELY a natural born citizen at birth.

Then why did he take such precautions to hide his background??????

Possible reasons might be that by that time, he was already a citizen of Indonesia, clearly. Does that affect anything? If someone is retroactively a NBC, but before the retroactive law he had become a citizen of a different country, does that affect his NBC status?

Also, by that time, he had applied to American colleges, probably as a foreigner. And his grandmother may have illegally found him some social security numbers so that he could hold his ice cream shop jobs and such.

This is absolutely a very interesting subject. Too bad no investigative journalist wants to risk his life to delve into this.

[DiogenesLamp]

Even if Obama were born in Kenya, I believe the amendments to the law are retroactive in their effect.

By golly they must be. They go all the way back to 1787 and re-write something we thought was written in stone, you know, like the age requirement.

I can't wait till congress passes a law that says "35" is now equal to "12." Then we can have Presidents equal to Obama's maturity level.

[Shimmer1]

No, they are not. You’re just wishing they were.