That is incorrect, one of the qualifications of a presidential candidate is to be born of parents whom are natural born citizens. Both mother and father had to be citizens of this country. The point of this was to not have a candidate whose loyalties would be divided between the United States and the native land of his parents. This is the situation we are in with Obama having his father being born in Kenya. George Washington spoke about this issue, obviously this rule didn’t apply to the first presidents as their parents were all obviously born in Great Britian but the founding fathers wanted to make sure their was no divided loyalties whatsoever when it came to being the President of the United States.
I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but here we go. It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks or what George Washington spoke about——what’s WRITTEN in the Constitution is ALL that matters. It trumps everything. Barack Obama is president because the Constitution says he can be president, whether you or I or anybody else likes it or not.
Personally, I don’t think someone that is born in the U.S. with an illegal immigrant for a parent should be qualified to be elected president. But until the Constitution is changed that’s the way it is.