[Gritty]

You raise a number of issues. I’ll just speak to one. He is listed in written school records as Barry Soetoro, a Muslim and an Indonesian citizen. At that time, Indonesians were not allowed to hold dual citizenship. And no one but Indonesian citizens were allowed to attend those schools.

If neither Obama nor his parents re-applied for American citizenship after that, then he is not an American citizen at all, let alone natural born. He is an Indonesian citizen. He could have applied to be reinstated, but I don’t believe that he did.

There are, of course, many other problems surrounding this issue. We don’t know for sure without records and written evidence, but the probabilities are pretty high that he is not an American AT ALL.

Your post bears repeating in it's entirety.

[muawiyah]

Again, US law does not respect what the parents may have claimed when it comes to citizenship in Indonesia.

The child is judged on his or her own merits, according to American law, and not until he or she is 18.

Everyone involved in the discussion knows this. What we want to see is the so-called "long form" of his birth certificate.