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According to Donafrio Our Constitution clearly states that in order to be President the person must be a “natural born citizen” of the United States. In summary you need parents who are U.S. Citizens at the time of your birth and you must be born on U.S. soil to be a “natural born” U.S. citizen.
John McCain was born in the country of Panama to parents who were both U.S. citizens which makes John McCain a U.S. citizen but does NOT make him a “natural born citizen” because he was not born on U.S. soil.
Barack Obama’s birth place is still being questioned because he has not made his original birth certificate public. Some believe he was born in Kenya, but Obama has said that he was born in Hawaii. However his father was Kenyan and at the time of Obama’s birth Kenya was under British rule. Obama has even stated on his web site that he was a British citizen at birth. That being the case, he is NOT a “natural born citizen” of the United States because his father was from Kenya and a British subject.

that doesn’t quite seem right.

If I am born in Illinois or Hawaii and my mother is a US citizen and my father has a green card and it a British subject I should still be eligible to run for President.

So is there something that states BOTH parents must be US citizens before you can be eligible for President.

In summary you need parents who are U.S. Citizens at the time of your birth and you must be born on U.S. soil to be a “natural born” U.S. citizen.Says who? If both parents are citizens you are automatically a citizen at birth, ie: NATURAL BORN citizen. ALL citizens are of two types: NATURAL BORN or NATURALIZED. McCain is NATURAL BORN. He was a citizen due to the facts of his birth. The claim about Obama is that he is NOT a Natural Born citizen, and (because we know he never went through the ONLY process to become a citizen if you are not a natural born citizen- NATURALIZATION -- he is, in fact NOT A CITIZEN AT ALL. (Therefore unable to serve in the Senate. Illegally living in the USA. Time to go BACK TO KENYA and apply for a VISA or IMMIGRATION.) There is no condition where one is born a CITIZEN but not a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. There are only TWO conditions vis-a-vis citizenship when you are born: you either ARE ONE or you ARE NOT ONE. If the filer could not figure this out I don't hold out much hope for his lawsuit.

Some of the finest legal scholarship supports Leo Donofrio’s position that neither Obama or McCain are “Natural Born Citizens”. See http://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/solum.htm “Originalism And The Natural Born Citizen Clause” by Lawrence B. Solum, Professor of Law, University Of Illinois, and http://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/chin.htm “Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President” by
Gabriel J. Chin, Professor of Law, University of Arizona.