[Polybius]

Obama’s father was a British citizen so the allowed precedent nullifies THAT constitutional requirement.

So were the fathers of:

1.) George Washington.
2.) John Adams
3.) Thomas Jefferson
4.) James Madison
5.) Andrew Jackson

The first President whose father was NOT a British citizen at the time of their birth was Martin Van Buren.

The U.S. Constitution says absolutely NOTHING about the citizenship of your father.

Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States and "one heartbeat away from the Presidency", was born in 1918 in the U.S. but the 1920 U.S. Census listed the nationality of his father, Theodore Agnew, as still being "Alien".

If we do not want the liberals to fabricate what the U.S. Constitution actually says, we should not fabricate what the U.S. Constitution actually says either.

[Raider Sam]

You would have loved the “Allen West is a RINO because he’s not a birther thread.”

So called Constitutionalists adding pieces to the Constitution in order to claim that someone else isnt following the Constitution.

[Happy Rain]

I was responding to the assumption by some that “natural born citizen” means being born of natural born citizens as well.
It was near impossible for the immediate generations following the Revolution for capable men needed to govern to NOT have British or other foreign parents.
So a historical rumor has it that a special,and thus temporary,dispensation was allowed—one that no longer applies for present generations.
It's constitutional slight of hand I know,but a valid point when strictly defining what a “natural born citizen" is.