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FWIW, I agree with you 100% about the rest of your post. The people who define “natural born” as requiring American citizen parents are full of it- all it requires is that the candidate be born in the country. To hold otherwise would mean that Thomas Jefferson (English mother), Andrew Jackson (both his parents were Irish immigrants), James Buchanan (Irish father),Chester Arthur (Irish father), Woodrow Wilson (English mother) and Herbert Hoover (Canadian mother) would have been ineligible for the presidency, something I’ve NEVER heard seriously debated anywhere.

Where do you types come from? Why is it you will do research to find out who the parents of various Presidents were, but never bother to learn WHY it didn't matter?

The early Presidents were exempted specifically by article II,

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

and the later Presidents (except for Chester Arthur) had parents that naturalized PRIOR to their birth.

Now you have just been demonstrated to be incredibly ignorant on this subject, so You should just stop offering YOUR opinion until you LEARN WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! You ought to be horribly embarrassed about beclowning yourself, but my experience with you types is that you have no shame.