[poinq]

Your father could be born in a foreign country. There is no problem with that most of the first Presidents were born here but their fathers were not. The constitution says that you need to be born here, not your father.

[ozaukeemom]

But, I thought the parent(s) had to be US citizens. Not necessarily born here, but citizens. It appears Obama’s father was not, unless he had become a US citizen at some point prior to Obama’s birth.

[gunnut]

Article II, Section 1 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. The early Presidents met the second part of Art. II Sec. 1 being a citizen at time of adoption of the Constitution. Otherwise you need to be a natural born citizen which literature of the time meant that both parents had to be citizens.

[freekitty]

You are incorrect. Your father has to be a United States citizen.

[freekitty]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2711249/posts