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The founders wrote an exception for themselves in the Constitution to be eligible to serve as president since they were former subjects to the crown, and the founders who became presidents were not naturalized. I suppose you have an excuse this too?

They wrote the exclusion clause because there was no United States at the time of their birth for them to have been born in to make them natural born citizens. They could only have been naturalized citizens, so they had to include the exclusion because if they hadn't, we'd have had to wait around for at least another 35 years before we could ever elect a President.

You can really spew the BS with the best of them.

Here's more evidence for you to chew on besides what I have shown you in the past that you are clearly wrong:

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"To remove this difficulty primarily, and to establish clear and comprehensive definition of citizenship which should declare what should constitute citizenship of the United States and also citizenship of a State, the first clause of the first section was framed.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

The first observation we have to make on this clause is that it puts at rest both the questions which we stated to have been the subject of differences of opinion. It declares that persons may be citizens of the United States without regard to their citizenship of a particular State, and it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction citizens of the United States. That its main purpose was to establish the citizenship of the negro can admit of no doubt. The phrase, "subject to its jurisdiction" was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.

The next observation is more important in view of the arguments of counsel in the present case. It is that the distinction between citizenship of the United States and citizenship of a State is clearly recognized and established.... "

U.S. Supreme Court Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 16 Wall. 36 36 (1872)