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I'm no expert, but I believe naturalization by definition only applies to births occurring outside the U.S. All persons born in the United States, except those not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government (such as children of foreign diplomats) are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born_citizen The foregoing implies that so long as Obama was born in Hawaii, he automatically was a US citizen regardless of either the citizenship or marital status of his parents. That's why babies of illegal immigrants are still accorded US citizenship status. All the text you provided in your post appears to relate to naturalization. FWIW, I interpret the 1 year continuous period simply to refer the mother having to have lived in US for such a period SOMETIME before the birth, not IMMEDIATELY before the birth. I think they are trying to account for mothers who long ago were US citizens, emigrated abroad without changing their citizenship, and then gave birth abroad to an infant fathered by a non-citizen. So long as they go through the naturalization process, such infants can become US citizens. I forget whether it's in the Wikipedia article cited above, but somewhere I read that the reason for the asymmetry in how illegitimate births are handled for female US citizens and male US citizens is that Congress didn't want a whole pile of illegitimate Vietnam war babies to automatically be entitled to US citizenship even though their fathers either denied paternity or had no interest in supporting the child etc. Hence they set a much higher bar to naturalization. Bottom line: unless the posted birth certificate at DailyKos is a forgery, it appears BHO is a natural-born citizen.

On One of these threads I posted a link to actual case law pertaining to the issue of single parent and citizenship and the right to citizenship when dual citizenship was established for a child and how citizenship can be denied to a US citizen with dual citizenship.

And rather then have you go dig in up here is another link to it It really is fascinating stuff.

If you are not confused now wait until you get through that one.

It is of course a ruling by the Infamous Ninth Circuit.

Among my many concerns about this issue is that his mother was very Anti American and decided to live out her life in Indonesia. To me at least that raises a red flag of did she take steps to ensure that Obama or Barry Soetoro was only an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted by his step father, and did he travel with her to the United States on Indonesian passports. we should also remember that when the employees of an Obama adviser were caught going through Obama's Passport records it was Obama himself that cried the loudest over what might have been a Watergate break in into his electronic records by people on his own staff.

Personally I believe that the records were being Sanitized for our consumption in a Bergerese operation to hide anything that may be prevent him from serving if those items were to be exposed.

The correct way to remove any doubt is to release the original document and any other document that may be problematic so far nothing of the sort has happened.