I happen to think the natural-born citizen restriction is a good thing, and would like to see us go back to the original intent.
The left says the original intent (both parents citizens AND born on US soil) is xenophobic and unreasonable.
I worry about the example of the child of illegal immigrants I gave earlier. Born in New Mexico, but both parents in US illegaly. That child WILL be running for president in 20-30 years (if not sooner.) Can anyone doubt that child would have divided loyalties between the US and Mexico?
We’ve already seen Obama become deeply involved in Kenyan politics (because of his father’s Kenyan citizenship, Obama was also a Kenyan citizen at birth.) If a crisis arises that requires Obama to choose between the good of the US and Kenya, what will he do?
I don’t believe “loyalty to Kenya” is the problem as much as “loyalty to Marx” is, with 0bama at least.
My big beef, however, is with the left and their worldview that any pre-existing contracts, laws, restrictions, Constitutional requirements, etc, are to be discarded if they get in the way of their present-day goals.