“Ok, then you make the case for O being a Natural Born citizen.”
1. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. on Aug 4th, 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. His birth was announced in Honolulu papers a week later, and his birth records have been vouched for by state of Hawaii health director, who says she has verified that his records show him as being born in Honolulu.
2. As per SCOTUS Wong Kim Ark ruling and 14th amendment, he’s been a US citizen since birth, ergo is a natural-born citizen.
Ergo, eligible to be President.
QED.
This business about ex post factoing a born citizenship seems real hokey to me. Seems that Congress could pass a law saying that anybody who had been born anywhere on this planet is an American and it would pass equal muster. Something smells.
In 1898, in the Wong Kim Ark case, the Supreme Court reexamined the "citizenship-by-birthplace-alone" theory, but did not decide whether it applied to natural born citizenship. The Court ruled that Mr. Ark was a citizen, but did not rule that he was a natural born citizen (SCOTUS in 'Wong Kim Ark').
” ‘At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country, of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient, for everything we have now to consider, that all children, born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction, are themselves citizens.’ Minor v. Happersett (1874) 21 Wall. 162, 166-168.”