[betty boop]

The domicile is the permanent home to which one is presumed to have the intention of returning whenever the purpose for which one is absent has been accomplished.

On this criterion, where was Stanley Ann Dunham's "domicile?" She seemed to find "domicile" wherever her third-world, Marxian-socialist husband of the time happened to be. And under international law as traditionally understood, "the domicile of the husband and father determines that of wife and children."

Tracing BHO's citizenship status through his mother seems fraught with difficulty, on legal minority, jurisdictional, and domicile grounds. On the other hand, there are potentially two fathers (natural and step) that clearly are not citizens of the United States: One a Kenyan (British citizen); the other an Indonesian (Indonesian citizen).

Whatta mess....

[Alamo-Girl]

I very strongly agree with you. International law in this case does not favor Obama.

[TXnMA]

I've been working (on and off) on a spreadsheet matrix that depicts all of the likely aspects of US citizenship -- with specific individuals as illustrations of each case I could think of. (I intend to publish it here on FR -- as a HTML Table -- for comment and editorial input when I'm done.)

When you lay it out as an X-Y matrix, is it obvious that there is an amazingly large set of possible combinations...

syc1959, your jurisdiction element certainly needs to be added as another defining condition (column). (ACK! More possible combinations...!)

;-}

BTW, is anyone aware of an American [born] citizen who is the offspring of a foreign [male] diplomat and a U.S. "natural born" wife? (That is the closest analogy of Øbama's situation [assuming he can prove Hawaiian {soil} birth] I have been able to come up with -- so far...)