[RonF]

You do not have to have been born in the U.S. to be a natural-born citizen. If both your parents are American citizens it does not matter where you are born. I’m not sure of what the law is if only one of your parents is an American citizen.

[ArmyTeach]

The laws at the time, so I'm given to understand, require that one parent of a child born overseas must be a natural born American citizen -but- that parent must be five years past the age of 14 in order to convey citizenship. In normal language, that means 19 years old, and his mother was 18 at the time of his birth. So unless he was born on American soil, Obama does not meet constitutional requirements for the office. Does he qualify as a natural born American citizen? I have no clue.

[Elsiejay]

I believe that for presidential eligibility it is also required to have been born on U. S. territory, which,incidentally, the Panama Canal Zone was considered to be at time of John McCain’s birth.
It is rather unfortunate that Barack Obama/Barry
Soetoro refuses to cause the public release of his Hawaiian birth certificate, assuming such a document exists. However, it still remains that one of his purported parents was a British subject, and the other a minor U. S. citizen on the stated day of his birth.