The birth announcement was posted 10 days after the birth occurred.
“each candidate that stands in a primary election must make a declaration of candidacy, stating that ‘at the time of filing this declaration, I am legally qualified to assume office if elected.’ The Secretary of State has a constitutionally imposed duty to enforce this qualification.”
The clear intention behind the “natural born citizen” in the constitution is that there be no divided loyalties for the highest office in the nation. Obama himself has admitted that he is not a natural born citizen, and in fact, is at best (if we take him at his certification word), a native citizen, who had british citizenship at birth.
He does NOT qualify, he never did. He had to have known this, and yet ran for president in spite of the fact that it was illegal for him to do so. This also implies the secretary of state was remiss in their duties.
If you are to try and argue the intention behind the natural born citizen requirement, to somehow now force it to mean the same as native citizen (if in fact he actually is a native citizen, and not an illegal alien (this is almost comical at times)), despite the obvious and overwhelming historical meaning and legal precedent, saying that a dual citizenship is not natural born, you must do so via the courts. You cannot simply decide it so for yourself whenever it suits you, especially not with the office of the president of the United States. Obama knows this as well I’m sure, given his legal background.
So there you have it. Automatic disqualification insofar as I can see. And yet we have to file lawsuits in the supreme court to even get people to recognize these relatively simple matters.
No matter how much you love or hate the guy, or how great you might think he’d be at the job, it does not matter, he cannot be president.
In the interests of avoiding the ensuing chaos that will result from anyone being able to interpret the law in any way they see fit, the wholesale destruction of the constitution (all martial law at once, or slowly bit by bit), and any of the other nasty implications, perhaps it would be wise for Obama, McCain and whomever ever else isn’t qualified, to go on prime time tv, remove themselves from the presidential election, and make it clear, in no uncertain terms, that they are solely responsible for the implications of their wholly irresponsible actions.