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Researching this further, for a person born outside the United States to two US citizen parents, or to any person born with a US state, the rules are pretty straight forward. But, through the years, the rules for a child born to a single US parent outside the US are somewhat less clear, particularly to a single mother.

In McCain's case, since both his parents are US citizens there is no problem. In Obama's case, even though only his mother was a US citizen, since he was born in Hawaii and it was already a state, there is also no problem.

Jeff...from a layman’s standpoint, I agree, but the courts pick fly s_it out of pepper....so...I expect a possible Supreme Court decision one day.

Since this issue has never been reviewed, my fear is that a liberal Supreme Court would rule that Natural Born is discriminatory...therefor for diversity’s sake, natural born will become “people of the World”........

...for a person born outside the United States to two US citizen parents[...]the rules are pretty straight forward.

Do more research. There are very specific laws in the US code that deal with this, but I don't feel like looking them up right now...However, believe me when I tell you that it's anything but "straightforward".

I was born in 1966 in Stuttgart, Germany in a US military hospital. My father was a natural-born US citizen serving in the Army and my mother was a natural-born US citizen and his wife. The doctors and nurses were all Army officers and the US flag flew over the hospital.

However, despite all of that I have a German birth certificate and I was naturalized in 1968 at a Federal Courthouse in New Orleans, LA. In addition, when I turned eighteen I was in boot camp for the US Navy and was required to re-affirm my oath of citizenship or face deportation.

I'm not a natural-born citizen, I'm a naturalized citizen who keeps his naturalization papers in a very expensive fireproof safe. I'm also not qualified for the office of president - Not that I'd ever want it.

Col Sanders