[DiogenesLamp]

You do know that we have had several presidents in our history that did not meet that standard, right? For example, Chester Arthur was our 21st President. His father was born in Ireland, and became a US citizen in 1843. But Chester was born in 1829. This meant that Arthur had only one US citizen parent (his mother), and was in fact a dual-citizen of both Britain (by his father) and the US (by his mother) for his entire life.

One, (Prior to Obama) does not constitute "Several." Arthur kept his Father's nationality a secret, even going so far as to claim to be born in a different year than he was, to further obfuscate his birth history.

Getting away with a deception does not implicate the country in knowingly tolerating the behavior. They didn't know they were being deceived at the time.

[CA Conservative]

I used Arthur as an example. There is also Woodrow Wilson (his mother was an Irish immigrant), James Buchanan (father from Ireland), Herbert Hoover (mother from Canada)...