“...The problem with 0bama is, we don’t know...”
With 0bama, he only has one legal requirement to meet:
Was his mother a US citizen, and resident for 5 years, two of which were after her 14th birthday?
If so, then 0bama acquired citizenship at birth and there is truly no issue with his citizenship.
If not, then lawyers and federal prosecutors need to get involved. But they won’t. So regardless of the facts, no one in any competent position of authority will do anything about it. It then becomes a non-issue due to lack of prosecutorial interest. Doesn’t make it *right*, but a non-issue nonetheless.
I quit worrying about it long ago when no-one who *could* do anything about it, *would* do anything about it.
Obama’s mother’s age at his birth is only relevant IF he was born outside of the United States. There is no age requirement to establish Citizenship at Birth for the mother of a person born in the United States.
The state of Hawaii has said that he was born there.
When the Republican Governor of Hawaii issued the following statement, it took all the wind out of the sails of the Obama born abroad movement.
Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI):
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Sen. McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. It’s been established. He was born here.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/hawaii_gov_lingle_answers_the.html
And additionally in 2009, the House of Representatives passed a resolution (H. Res. 593, 111th Congress) by a vote of 378-0 which states, in part, “Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.”
There is a question whether Obama gave up his American citizenship as he enrolled in a US college as a foreign student.
You are exactly right it matters not about him. Perhaps in future years we will find out who he really is.