[Spunky]

"If this wasn't to go into effect for people born before 1986, why would the military proviso be referenced with such an old date?"

That's just it. It was a MILITARY provision. Obama's parents were not military.

[Gondring]

Have you read it all? The military proviso just allows military people to count the years in the military toward the total.

B. Obama's mother didn't need credit for those years, anyway, so the military proviso isn't needed to help in meeting the 2-year/5-year/14-year-old requirement.