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He’s a son of a something alright.

While this may not be what you had in mind, Obama is the son of an alien, and our Constitution requires that our presidents be born, on our soil, to parents who are citizens. The Constitution imposes no constraints on eligibility to the presidency based upon religioius beliefs. Here is the positive law, precedent, defining the background necessary to be eligible to the presidency. The only citizens defined in our Constitution before the 14th Amendment were natural born citizens. The reason our framers put the definition into the Constitution was that they didn't want squabbling among states about who were eligible to be president, and each state had its own definition of who were citizens, and would agree among themselves, in Congress, upon “an uniform rule of naturalization” - Article 1 section 8.

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

During the 60s lots of blacks decided, for varying reasons, to become Muslim. Mohammed Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yusef Latif, and many others, including Khalid al-Mansour, formerly Don Warden, a Black Panther founder, who became an attorney for Alwaleed bin-Talal, and who funded Barry Soetoro’s education, beginning around the time Barry became Barack Obama. Remember, it was Al-Mansour, who approached Malcolm X's former attorney, Percy Sutton, for help in securing Barry's admission to Harvard. Percy explained that money was not a problem since Alwaleed is one of the world's wealthiest men, and al-Mansour’s employer. Bin-Talaal, probably not coincidentally, is the largest investor in News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, after Rupert Murdoch. Bin-Talaal is also one of Harvard's largest benefactors, with the largest department of Harvard Divinity School, the Alwaleed bin-Talaal Center of Islamic Studies, which extends to Georgetown, Cambridge, and American Universty campuses in Lebanon and Cairo. He also donated at least twenty million dollars to Harvard not long after Barack graduated, the only Editor of the Harvard Law Review never to have contributed a single article. Bin-Talaal is also a major stockholder of Cisco, Apple, Google, and probably many other corporations. Recall that Rudy Giuliani refused bin-Talaal’s ten million dollar apology after 9/11.

What sage advised "Follow the money?"