Moreover, even if Sen. Obama could have somehow been deemed “natural born,” that citizenship was lost in or around 1967 when he and his mother took up residency in Indonesia, where Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Berg also states that he possesses copies of Sen. Obama’s registration to Fransiskus Assisi School In Jakarta, Indonesia which clearly show that he was registered under the name “Barry Soetoro” and his citizenship listed as Indonesian.
United States Code
Title 8 Aliens and Nationality
Chapter 12 - Immigration and Nationality
Subchapter III - Nationality and Naturalization
Article Part I - Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
Section 1409 - Children Born Out of Wedlock
(c) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (a) of this section, a person born, after December 23, 1952, outside the United States and out of wedlock shall be held to have acquired at birth the nationality status of his mother, if the mother had the nationality of the United States at the time of such person’s birth, and if the mother had previously been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year.
This was formerly in section 309 (as of the date of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.’s birth).
So Indonesian citizenshiip matters legally. However, Barack Hussein Obame, Jr.’s lying about his place of birth is not good politically, if the facts get out to the general voting public.
That's what I think this case is actually about. Some embarrassing fact (born in Kenya, when he said he wasn't, or Barack,Sr is not his dad......)
I'm not sure I follow. If Obama was a natural-born citizen, how would his moving to Indonesia with his mother change this fact?