[Bertram3]

It appears that under current law your husband would have only had to file and pay a fee to get citizenship.

The relevant regulations are here

Obama is probably a citizen even if he was born in Kenya. What is not clear is whether he is a natural born citizen and therefore eligible for the presidency. I have been pooh-poohing this notion as a waste of time, but after spending several hours digging into case law, maybe there is something to it after all.

[twigs]

I thought it was a waste, too, when it came up several months ago, but I’ve decided that there might be something to it, too. For one, the campaign won’t release the documents needed to put this issue to bed once and for all. I find that troubling.

[webboy45]

Apparently three people (including Berg) have copies of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate. Also Berg claims that someone did an exhaustive search of Hawaiian birth records and couldn’t find Obama. If these things are true then there is a valid question whether or not he’s a “natural born” citizen.

[Tallguy]

I have been pooh-poohing this notion as a waste of time, but after spending several hours digging into case law, maybe there is something to it after all.

The problem is that the public will not understand the argument, and millions of Obama supporters would never accept the judgement -- even if it came from the Supreme Court. Cities would burn. Therefore, I think nothing will come of this & Obama will have successfully finessed the "natural born citizen" Constitutional requirement.