No. BOTH his parents would have had to be naturalized citizens before his birth.
That is what I was thinking. I don’t understand the confusion how people can’t see this. I was watching Fox news about a hour ago and he was being interviewed. The reporter asked him if he was thinking of running for president for 2012 and he said he liked being governor. Don’t the reporters know he can’t qualify because he doesn’t meet Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution?
What if the parents are here legally with Green Cards? That was my parents situation. I was born in the USA and carries a US Passport. At the age of 18, I had to choose whether to be a US Citizen or a citizen of the Netherlands, where my parents were born.