Of course, by now such a miasma of obamashiite has been raised about the BC issue (of course it's a fake) no one can tell what the hell is going on. It has been thoroughly conflated with the NBC issue, which of course is quite different.
Throughout it all, the black-robèd bumkissers of the SCOTUS steadfastly refuse to tell me specifically what a Natural Born Citizen, as mentioned in article II, actually is. In fact, these SOBs opine and rule on everything else but. They can't even tell us what a citizen is, leaving it up to lower courts and agency rulings. For example, there is no way in hell the offspring of two illegal aliens ... or legal aliens for that matter ... is really really a US Citizen.
I know what I think about it. I now know what Ted Cruz thinks about it. I even have some idea of what Bobby Jindal thinks about it. However, one thing I and these esteemed fellows have in common is that none of us is cashing a SCOTUS paycheck.
Although I think Obama's "watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" routine when he flashed his supposed BC in front of the cameras for a brief second was as phony as the day is long, the issue of Natural Born Citizen (NBC) is not as cut-and-dry as one might think. (His deceptiveness about his BC shows even Obama isn't sure whether he's a U.S. citizen.)
The issue isn't so much where he was born, as it is the citizenship of his parents at the time he was born and whether NBC requires U.S. citizenship of two or only one parent. Interesting post below from DiogenesLamp regarding this:
According to the Standards then in place in 1787, only the Father needed to be a citizen. It didn't matter what citizenship the mother held, upon marriage, she assumed her husband's citizenship. This was the American common law of the time, and it was codified into statute law by congress I believe in the 1850s, but I would have to look it up again to be sure. The relevant legal principle is "Partus Sequitur Patrem."