Obama was born at 7:24 p.m. on August 4, 1961 at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in the town of Mombasa in the Coast Province of the British colony of Kenya (http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2009/090909/FrntPgObamaEligibility.html). At the time of Obama’s birth, his father, Barack Hussein Obama, was a British citizen (Kenya did not gain its independence from Britain until 1963) and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a United States citizen. According to Federal law, however, as the sole U.S. citizen parent Obama’s mother was not old enough and did not reside in the United States long enough after age 14 to qualify Obama as a “natural born” United States citizen. The particulars are as follows.
According to Title 3, Chap. 1 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act, Public Law No. 82-414, 66 Stat. 163) that was passed on June 27, 1952 and applies to persons of birth between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/8693236/1952-Immigration-and-Nationality-Act-Title3-Chapter1?secret_password=&autodown=pdf), a child born outside of the United States to one citizen parent could acquire “natural born” United States citizenship if the United States citizen parent had been physically present in the United States for ten (10) years prior to the child’s birth and five (5) of those years were after the parent had reached the age of fourteen.
Obama’s mother was born November 29, 1942 and, thus, she was only 18 years old when Obama was born in Kenya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ann_Dunham). As such, Obama’s mother did not meet the age-dependent residency requirements for her child to have “natural born” United States citizenship. Therefore, Obama is not a “natural born” United States citizen and under the terms specified in Article II, section 1 clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution is ineligible to be President or Vice President of the United States (http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html).
per http://www.theodora.com/ina_96_title_3.html
the term “natural born” is nowhere in 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act Title3 Chapter1 , neither is the word “natural”
those stipulations are merely for passing on US citizenship for a child born abroad, for indeed natural born citizenship requires that both parents be US citizens and child born on US soil
Your wording seems to imply that under this scenario, Obama would have been SOME KIND of citizen, just not natural-born. You are wrong, if this is your message. But, in fact, under the scenario presented here, Obama is not ANY kind of US Citizen, natural, native, naturalized, or statutory. He would have been EXCLUDED from citizenship entirely.
THANK YOU for putting to rest Stanley Ann(e)Dunham’s non-qualification in all of this.