Now you have me thinking and I am going to have to dig for this....I remember something about the law in place at the time that you had to be a certain age or be past a certain age by x number of years, to confer citizenship to your child born of a foreign national.
There was something odd that included Barky with regards to his mother’s ability to confer citizenship on her bastard offspring. I just don’t recall it exactly.
It is my opinion that Barky was born in Kenya. Shortly after his (ahem) birth Barky Sr. beat the crap out of Stanley Ann, and Stanley Ann’s parents arranged to have her flown home and got the kid Hawaiian paperwork.
The SSN he’s used and all of that stuff flows out of that “paperwork” but couldn’t prove his bona fides to the satisfaction of the Social Security Admin and Selective Service.
Pursuant to Section 301(a)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952, 66 Stat. 163, 235, 8 U.S.C. §1401(b), Matter of S-F- and G-, 2 I & N Dec. 182 (B.I. A.) approved (Att'y Gen. 1944), the federal statute in effect at that time, the candidate could not acquire American citizenship, because he was born out of the country and only one parent was an American, and she was disqualified under the Act because she did not have five continuous years of residency following her fourteenth birthday before the child was born, as she was only 18. Sen. Obama could not have become an American citizen except through a naturalization process at the time of his birth.