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There have been many saying misleading things about the birth problem. Cruz is eligbile because he was born to an American mother less than 5 years after she was residing on American soil. McCain was born on an American military reservation, i.e., American soil. Rubio, I don't know about. Obama is a different story. His mother was living in Kenya for, as much as I can find, for almost 6 years before Obama was supposedly born in Hawaii, at a hospital that didn't exist for another 17 years, with his parents supposedly living in a home that was owned by a college professor since around 6 years before the birth, and the birth certificate form was “destroyed” but suddenly reappeared, both forms (short then long), with all the false information on them. In Hawaii at that time, the declaration of a birth to the state could be either phoned or mailed in by a relative without the doctor's declaration/ Obama’s paternal grandmother and her sister have declared they were at the birth in Kenya and that it happened two days before. Plus, The statute of law in effect in 1961 required, before the birth of the child, the physical presence of the U.S. citizen parent in the United States for ten years, at least five of which were after the parent attained the age of 14. This statutory provision had the effect of preventing anyone under the age of 19 from transmitting U.S. citizenship at birth to a child born outside of the United States. (The current version of this law, INA § 301(g), 8 USC § 1401(g), requires a period of only five years of physical presence in the United States, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen.) As Mr. Obama’s mother was only eighteen at the time of his birth, she would not have been able to transmit U.S. citizenship to him if she had been in Kenya (or anywhere else outside of the United States) at the time of his birth. I.E., Obama qualified as a citizen, but not naturalized.
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Obama was born in Hawaii. His birth certificate is a forgery, but the reason for the forgery is much more interesting than the fantasy that his mother flew to Kenya to give birth.

Obama was adopted by his mother’s second husband, Soetero and became an Indonesian citizen. When he return to the U.S. and became an adult, he could have recoverd his natural born citizenship status as he could not have voluntarily relinquished his citizenship while a minor. But, Obama did not do this, instead he used his foreign citizenship status to gain entrance into prestigious universities as a foreign student. With his grades, he couldn’t get into a top university. That action was prima facia evidence that he was renouncing his U.S. Citizenship.

When Obama decided to go into politics, this was a problem, certainly legally and probably politically. That issue needed to go away, and the Obama team went to work, spending several millions of dollars to make the evidence disappear. The brilliance of their plan is that they planted a bit of disinformation suggesting that Obama was born in Kenya, taking advantage of some braggadocio by Obama when being born in Kenya was thought to help sell books. It was a lie, as are many of Obama’s stories. But, the Birther Movement emerged and took the bait.

Believing anything that the Birther Movement claims is a fool’s errand as is believing anything that Obama has said, “written”, or thought.