Are you a native-born American? I am.
So what if Obama used it. It has no legal distinction from other citizens in terms of rights or how citizenship is acquired so it made no sense on that rather inaccurate chart.
As a term doesnt mean any more than my being a helio-sneezing American.
So if Obama wanted to be President why didn’t he use Natural Born Citizen on his website?
1. A “natural born” citizen is any person born of US citizen parents (that’s two) in the U. S. mainland (includes Alaska and Hawaii) — think Ronald Reagan — in this case, parentage is important AND birthplace is important.
2. A citizen “by statute” is any person born of US citizen parent(s) outside the United States — think John McCain — in this case, parentage is important AND birthplace is not important.
3. A “native born” citizen, is any person born in the United States mainland — think Barack Obama — parentage not important AND birthplace important — a.
4. Parentage not important AND birthplace not important — a “naturalized” citizen is a citizen as the result of a process — think Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A statutory citizen (bestowed by man’s pen) can never be a “natural born” citizen (bestowed by God/nature).