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"You were discussing a president’s PARENTS needing to be born as citizens not the person elected as president. I mentioned Jackson because his parents were not born as citizens. Neither were one parent of Presidents Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers; Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933), whose mothers were born respectively in England and Canada.

The US Supreme Court’s docket is already set with the cases they will hear for 2010. Maybe in 2011 there will be an Obama eligibility suit that reaches the high court, who knows?

Again, why bring up Jackson? The NBC clause didn't apply to him, so it didn't matter that his parents were not citizens of this country. Didn't matter at all. We are discussing "Natural Born Citizens" (being born in country to citizen parentS), NOT "or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution" (who's parent's citizenship status was irrelevant).

Again, why bring up Jackson? The NBC clause didn’t apply to him, so it didn’t matter that his parents were not citizens of this country. Didn’t matter at all. We are discussing “Natural Born Citizens” (being born in country to citizen parentS), NOT “or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution” (who’s parent’s citizenship status was irrelevant).

OK fine, if you don’t want to include Jackson (or Jefferson for that matter), then let’s just stick with the foreign born parents of James Buchanan, Chester Arthur, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover in addition to Obama.