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William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England was published in in 1765 in England and a couple of years later in America. (the edition I'm looking at says it was published in Philadelphia in M DCC LXXI, which I think is 1771). Blackstone's Commentaries is considered the definitive statement of the English common law, which at the time was the law applicable in all of North America and with which the founders were familiar and under which, at the time, they lived.

I would guess that the Commentaries are available online, but the second paragraph of "Chapter the Tenth" states:

The first and most obvious division of the people is into aliens and natural born subjects. Natural born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England; that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king: and aliens, such as are born out of it.

But regardless of the common law of England, or whether the law of Switzerland was ever as Vetter wished it to be, James Madison who attended the Constitutional Convention and participated in the debates (and who was often referred to as the "Father of the Constitution") wrote that the place of birth was definitive in the United States and that no further inquiry was necessary.

In my book, Obama is evil incarnate; his only redeeming feature being that his abject incompetence keeps him from achieving even greater depths of evil. But, the way to stop this guy is to firmly oppose his legislative agenda in the next Congress, undo as much of the damage caused by the last Congress as possible and work tirelessly to make sure that this guy and his minions in other elective offices lose as overwhelmingly as possible in the next election cycle.