[r9etb]

BOTH parents were citizens of the United States when you were born

By that standard, George Washington was not eligible to be president. Indeed, even Abraham Lincoln was not eligible by that standard, his mother and father having been born in 1778 and 1784, respectively, before the Constitution was written.

And yet they both served, and their eligibility has never been in question.

[Danae]

Well, DUH. Good grief... this is remedial. Why do you think that they grandfathered in the founders and original citizens created at the time the constitution was ratified?? Maybe because there would not be a Natural Born Citizen until 1811 or so? Maybe?? You think?? 35 years of age and all that?

"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." Its not like they didn't think of that! Sheesh...