It’s not “governed” by Great Britain. It’s governed by the US. He was born with British citizenship (I think), but that doesn’t mean anything.
Britian could pass a law tomorrow making you a British citizen. Does that make you inelgible for the presidency? Zimbabwe could make every resident of Texas a Zimbabwe citizen tomorrow. That doesn’t mean I’m now subject to their courts.
Our laws are our laws. Their laws are their laws.
Barry was born to a foreign national father. Barry inherited his father's "citizenship." Even assuming Barry was born in HI, he would have been born a dual national. A born citizen of TWO country's. A citizen of the US and a subject of the UK. Therefore, how in the world can a Natural Born Citizen of the United States be "Governed" (as admitted by the vaunted FTS web site) in any way shape or form by a foreign country?
Oh and your scenario of "country x" delaring soverign citizens of another country "their" citizens...is meaningless. It would not be recognized by the international "community", nor an international court and so on. Besides. The country affected by such an action could then, in your scenario, turn around and declare all citizens of country x to be their citizens now. That's all meaningless.
The dual citizenship at birth is, or could be, the disqualifier for Obama to serve legitimately under the Constitution as President of the United States.
The founders, signers of the Declaration and drafters of the Constitution, were all born British subjects of the King. It was because of that that THEY were not ‘natural born citizens,’ and exempted themselves, reasonably enough, from that qualifier for president.
The dual citizenship was not foisted on him by another sovreign nation, it was conferred by the fact of his birth. It means, or could mean, a great deal.
That's right. His father could have been a stateless person for all the difference it would make.
But as long as he was not a United States citizen, he cannot be a natural born citizen.