It wasn’t a personal insult. It was a statement of fact addressed to birthers. The US Supreme Court spent pages in a 1898 decision detailing their belief that the phrase natural born citizen came from the strictly analogous common law phrase ‘natural born subject’. That in turn meant it applied to those born of alien parents, provided they were here with the approval of the government.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html
Ooookay! So 6 out 10 Americans who have questions about Obama's eligibility can't read. ( Yeah! Right!) ( with eye roll)
That in turn meant it applied to those born of alien parents, provided they were here with the approval of the government.
Uh? **Here**??? And what proof do you have of that, other than stuff posted by Obots on the Internet?
Unlike other presidents, ( other than Arthur) armies of citizens stood ready to testify of the president's earliest beginnings and that of his family. Obama lacks these witnesses, and given his tangled international and paternal history, it is rational for Americans to ask for documentation.
Fact: It is a very simple and inexpensive matter to prove natural born citizenship.
Fact: Obama has gone to considerable effort and expense ( private and tax paid) to prevent the release of common documents that would prove or disprove his natural born citizenship.
Gee! And...The afterbirthers wonder why 6 out 10 Americans are not smack dab certain of Obama's eligibility?
Honestly, Obama claims that Obama Sr. is his legal birth father...But..Without documentation few know even that for certain. ( By the way, I recognize that their is a difference between legal birth paternity and biologic paternity. Only DNA testing could untangle that.