Oh, I agree with you.
For those who think parentage matters, however, Obama has a much better claim than Rubio.
If you think that it means the individual has to have two US citizen parents born in the US (which it does not), Obama’s father was indisputably born elsewhere and was certainly not a US citizen, so by that standard, Bambi wouldn’t have qualified.
However, this information was known and there was no objection to his running. The only objection to either Obama or McCain was based on the place of birth, Panama outside of a military base in the case of McCain, and somewhat shadowy in the case of Obama.
Hence, based on precedent, Rubio certainly qualifies. Anyone who is trying to say otherwise is probably doing so simply because they are scared to death that Rubio will run - and win.
I think his main drawback to the general voting population is that he’s young, and of course he himself has just said that he doesn’t want to run for any other office but wants to serve out his term in the House. But I’ve heard him speak...and if he ran, he’d win. So the Dems are scared of him.
For those who think parentage matters, however, Obama has a much better claim than Rubio.
Based on what, a manipulated pdf file released on April 27th?