It sure was and it still is, not that his father was a Kenyan, but that his father being a Kenyan made him ineligible.
Few even here had never heard of Vattel, or historian founder Ramsay, or Breckenridge Long, or the dicta of Supreme Court cases defining "natural born citizen" before the election, even though we have an educated political class made up of lawyers and scholars who have access to that information and yet through negligence or malice kept that information under wraps.
We in the last year have just taken the wraps off our past in this regard and our ruling class doesn't like it.
We're supposed to remain dumb, gullible and happy and subservient to the babble they feed us. Well -- we're Americans and fully capable of self-sufficiency and getting our own food instead of sitting at their table begging for crumbs and singing their silly songs.
When will you grow up and do the same???
Vattel wrote one sentence in a philosophy book, and that sentence did NOT include “natural born citizen”.
Few heard of Ramsay because he was a minor figure.
The Supreme Court cases did NOT define NBC as requiring two citizen parents - the opposite if anything.
When every elected member of the GOP is part of a conspiracy to keep liberal democrats in power, you need to re-think your assumptions. Because it means you are either
1 - a nut, or
2 - outnumbered 99-1 or more in a popular election country.
Being outnumbered 60-40 by the leeches of society is a big enough task to fight.