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Another blog asserting that this is true doesn’t constitute evidence. I can find those all day long, but they never seem to point to anything solid that confirms this is true. And just because a country is under martial law (or “marshall law” as your source calls it) doesn’t mean travel there is forbidden. Being on the State Dept. warning list doesn’t mean that it’s forbidden, either. It just means that you’re taking your chances.

I would presume he was taking the chances to buy DRUGS!

Isn't it the State Department who issues Passports?

Now you have to go back to Pakistan and find out their rules at the time, right??

From another posting:

As we all, by now understand, Article II, Sec. 1 of the United States Constitution requires that to be eligible to hold the office of President of the United States, a person must be a "natural born" citizen.

Although the Constitution does not define the term "natural born", as Professor Solum points out, it appears to have been derived from the English Common law term "natural born subject". Since the US has citizens, not subjects, the word was changed.

However there is little room for doubt that incorporation of the concept in Article II, Sec. 1 was designed to address the proposition that a person is subject to the legal sovereignty of the head of state in the physical location where the person is born. The founders rejected the idea of a head of the US Government who was subject to another sovereign.

And achievement of that objective requires that persons not born in the geographical limits of the 50 states be ineligible to serve as President.

Goldwater was viewed as eligible because the territory of Arizona where he was born was not subject to any other sovereign in the period between his birth there and its incorporation in the state of Arizona.

In other words, you've got nothing.

Isn't it the State Department who issues Passports

Yes. And I have one. They didn't ask me where I was planning to go when I got it.

Now you have to go back to Pakistan and find out their rules at the time, right??

Hey, you're the one saying it's true. You come up with the evidence if you want me to believe it. Did you just accept it from some blog?

As to the citizenship issue, I recently learned that, under Italian law, I'm an Italian citizen, since my great grandfather was born there, and didn't renounce his citizenship until after my grandfather was born here, and from there it passed down to me, since neither my grandfather, nor my mother, nor I ever specifically went to an Italian consulate and renounced it. If I deal with a bunch of bureaucracy, I can get an Italian passport. This doesn't mean I'd become a naturalized Italian citizen. Under their law, I already AM an Italian citizen.

Am I eligible to be president?