Question. If you are born out of the US but to American Citizen parents, are you still not qualified to run for president? I am a little murky on that.
susie
From my understanding from reading these threads and the links in them. Only if the mother is a naturalized citizen. That means she must be a US citizen AND have lived in the country for five (or 10 according to some sources) after turning 16. Since she left for Kenya before the age of 21, but had Obama at 18 or so, it doesn’t qualify.
Oh yeah, and the issue isn’t whether he is a US citizen, noone doubts that, it’s the constitutional requirement of being a ‘natural born’ citizen that is the issue. And since his father wasn’t a citizen, it all falls on his young mother and she doesn’t seem to qualify. Therefore, if he wasn’t born in the US (and the so called proof he has offered doesn’t seem to say so), he would not qualify for POTUS.
Now, I’m not legal scholar, so I am going on what I have read.