I thought that he was a "naturalized" citizen, therefore not eligible to run for President.
Obama was born in Hawaii.
Barack Obama,state senator from Illinois, delivered a rousing keynote speech at July's Democratic National Convention. “There's no black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America,” he said. Obama, whose black father was born in Kenya and white mother in Kansas, graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He's running unopposed for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Obama won the Democratic primary in a landslide, and his Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race. If elected, he'll be the only African American in the Senate. Many Democrats consider him a future presidential hopeful.
He could have been more in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, but as long his mother was an American he's elligible.