[Verginius Rufus]

Would US law have recognized Obama's acquisition of Indonesian citizenship? The Constitution mandates being a natural born citizen, but it doesn't specifically address someone who is born here but somehow is entitled to citizenship in another country.

If Obama had been older, it might be used against him, but as a young child he wouldn't have had any say in the matter.

I don't want him to become President, but relying on questionable legalisms is not likely to prevent it from happening.

[blackbart.223]

"If Obama had been older, it might be used against him, but as a young child he wouldn't have had any say in the matter."

Then he shouldn't have a problem being forthcoming about it.

[IreneE]

It is a technicality but apparently at technicality that scares Obama out of being open and honest with his birth certificate and other withheld government and school records.

If he just gave out the information, as John McCain did with his Panama City birth certificate (to US NAVY Parents), no one would be asking the questions.

What is BO hiding? Must be Big.

[IreneE]

The other problem is that if he was not born in Hawaii, but instead Kenya as his relatives there seem to assert, he would normally also be a US born citizen because of his mother’s status.

However, that is not true either because she did not maintain US residency for ten years when she moved to Indonesia. This was the law of the United States at the time.

Barack may have assumed he was a US citizen all his life until he started researching these technicalities.

Indeed, why did he travel to Pakistan in 1981 on an Indonesian passport?

(It was against the law in 1981 for US citizens to travel to Pakistan, btw.)

All this is very very strange.