[philman_36]

Before this issue came up about Obama, how many of you were aware of this requirement?
I see by your sign in date that you weren't around in 2003-2004 when the Hatch Amendment was being talked about...

hatch amendment site:freerepublic.com Arnold Schwarzenegger potus

Early on a group of patriots went to Washington and interviewed Orin Hatch in his office and questioned him about Obama and Natural Born eligibility. Hatch was CLUELESS!
Hatch played ignorant when he obviously wasn't.

[faucetman]

Not sure how Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Hatch amendment is relevant to this discussion.

“A person who is a citizen of the United States, who has been for 20 years a citizen of the United States, and who is otherwise eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to that Office by reason of not being a native born citizen of the United States.”

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/schwarzenegger-constitutional-amendment-hatched/#ixzz1tMkrA1Sv

I don't see “Natural” in there anywhere? I think everyone knew that you had to be born here to be president. That is a given. That the framers made additional special provisions applying only to the office of president. If the status of your parents made no difference, then what would be the need of a special condition of citizenship? What, they made a mistake and meant to say “native”? A TYPO?

Using your Ockham’s Razor thinking, the framers wanted to be sure that the Command and Chief of the army (the president), would not have ANY foreign allegiances (FACT).

So isn't it just simple that the framers meant to prevent anyone from becoming president who had parents who were foreign citizens? That would be the most obvious foreign allegiance.