Turn that around ... since when does the United States get to decide which of a foreign country's citizens is eligible? I'm talking about children born in foreign countries to parents who are US citizens. It cuts both ways ...
The Constitution was written in a time when travel was harder and moving was more or less permanent. Aliens in most countries were permitted to be naturalized - and their children were deemed to be natural born. This, since most would never move again. As long as the alien parents' nation DID NOT lay a claim on the child ...
Now, with our ease of travel, the Founding Fathers would accept our current understanding that a child who was born on foreign soil is a natural born citizen, as long as his parents are US citizens and the foreign country DOES NOT lay claim to the child. Otherwise, the child is a citizen - though NOT natural born.
I’ve always thought, and felt that the most important and maybe prime unstated aspect of NBC was the notion of upbringing.
A child born of 2 citizen parents and raised in country would be hard pressed not to absorb at his/her parents knees the History, Traditions, Laws, Mores, Culture, etc. of the United States. Although not assured, wouldn’t that child most likely grow up to be a Patriot/citizen of the first order?
I contrast the above thought with Obama’s narrative.... Born to an American mother, and a foreign Father, a broken marriage, a marriage to another foreign national by his mother, relocation to Indonesia, adoption and new Indonesian citizenship, another breakup of the marriage, relocation back to Hawaii, raised by grandparents, mentored by a Black, pediphile, communist writter, attending college as a “foreign student” in order to game the system and get financial aide via a Fullbright Scholorship, sponsoring by other foreign interests through Columbia, and Harvard, employment with the most radical elements of US Society, friendships with 60’s era Domestic Terrorists, a radical Church membership that preached hate for the US.....
How close does Obama come to the ideal I think that the founders had in mind?...... Is he the antithesis of what the founders envisioned when they set out the requirements for the Presidency.....I believe so, don’t you?