[djf]

I’ve read it plenty of times... you were the one that said No ...native born citizen... could run.

But ANYONE who runs for president MUST BE native born.
IN ADDITION, he must be NATURAL Born.
So you cannot say no native born citizen can run, in fact it is a requirement. But it, by itself, is not sufficient.

[Retired Intelligence Officer]

So is Obama’s website Fight the Smears right when it says this:

http://www.fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate.html

The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America.

[Tublecane]

“But ANYONE who runs for president MUST BE native born.
IN ADDITION, he must be NATURAL Born.
So you cannot say no native born citizen can run, in fact it is a requirement. But it, by itself, is not sufficient”

There’s a lot of confusion here. It hasn’t been established, so far as I know, that citizens born of parent citizens outside U.S. territory aren’t natural born citizens. So the part about presidents needing to be native born is suspect. Also, by saying that a president must be natural born in addition to being native born, you assume native born citizens aren’t automatically natural born citizens, which I think is false.