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“Birtherism” is the greatest Alinsky ever perpetrated. Those who use the term assist in the denigration of the Constitution
They have gotten the American people to reject one of the most valuable safeguards bequeathed to us by the founders.
The natural born citizen clause served us well until we ignored it.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.

It does not matter if he was born in Hawaii if his father was a foreign national.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s).
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
No other possible citizenship(s).
Only when one cannot be anything else can one be a natural born citizen.

No foreign birth.
No foreign parent(s)
No foreign citizenship(s)
No foreign influence on the Presidency is what John Jay stated in a letter to George Washington as the reason for insisting on a natural born citizen.

Obama told us he was born a British subject.

Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?

A natural born citizen is someone who is a citizen from birth under the laws that apply at the time, as opposed to an immigrant who must be naturalized before becoming a citizen. Any other definition mires you in absurdities that very, very few people would be willing to defend, such as saying that the born-abroad child of a U.S. serviceman and U.S. citizen wife, deployed in, say, Europe or Japan, is not a natural born citizen. The same goes for State Department and other government people who are routinely posted abroad, with their families, for long periods, as well as business expats, academics, etc.

"Under the laws that apply at the time" is an important caveat. We should do away with birthright citizenship and put an end to anchor babies and maternity tourism. If Maria slips across the border to deliver her baby in San Diego, fine, but the kid should remain Mexican, not American.