I support your post with one exception. I fear that the FactCheck claim that Obama was “governed by the BNA of 1948” is clever trap. A trap like the trap-door over the shark tank in a Bond flick that Obama is inviting us all to stand on, IMHO!
Ineligibility due to dual citizenship alone can be easily defeated by revelation that his parents marriage was bigamous. I can just see him saying “I had no idea that my father was a bigamist and that his Kenya “tribal marriage” to Kezia actually had legal standing under the 1948 BNA. Who knew?”
Just this past week at least three major stories on Obama’s brother, Mark declare that Mark's mother was BHO Sr’s third or fourth wife explicitly acknowledging the Kezia marriage but with zero fact checking on whether there was ever a divorce from Kezia (while 11 AP factcheckers examine Palin’s book).
Obama would still lack two US citizen parents if bigamy excluded the 1948 BNA, but would not be a dual citizen, making ineligibility more difficult to prove. John Jay specifically cited dual citizenship as the reason for the NBC clause, not lack of two US citizen parents, due to being a legally fatherless child.
Do you have a good reference for this — was it before the
signing of the Constitution or when he was Chief Justice?
Would appreciate the specific disqualifier in there. Thanks.
What about his Indonesian citizenship???