I don’t follow Steyn much for anything but if he said that the requirement for a ‘natural born citizen’ is just a technicality he can’t be much of believer in any of the Constitution as being the intent of the Founders. In other words people with such an attitude/belief must take the whole body of words of the Constitution as a technical discussion of what the Founders were thinking about vs what the Founders intended as the establishment of the USA. Obama would certainly agree with the technical view of the Constitution.