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Obviously not to you. Natural or naturalized; nothing else is possible, yet, your kind think there various other citizenship types.

My "kind"? As if I'm some kind of oddity, maybe even a mortal enemy?

Rather than just state your points, those of you who refuse to accept the long, commonly understood definition of natural born citizen (born to two citizen parents on native soil) seem to find it necessary to be hostile to those of us who do. Whatever.

There ARE various types of citizenship’s.

Oh, I don’t know? Maybe Carl Marx, in a hypothetical alternative universe, has an anchor baby in our very diverse country. Then............ fill in the blanks.

Ted Cruz can be ANYTHING he wants to be in this country except the President.

I encourage Ted and his fellow countrymen, like the Rubio’s, take back their NATIVE country from the communists bastards.

That’s a war most FReepers would get behind.

Natural or naturalized; nothing else is possible, yet, your kind think there various other citizenship types.

Actually, there is only one type of citizen. You either are one or you are not. The Constitution recognizes no greater or lessor class of citizen - no royal citizens, no ruling class citizens - our citizens are recognized by our founding documents as endowed by our Creator as a free people who are all equal, sovereign members of our great nation.

What the Constitution does do, however, is set out protective restrictions to whom we may entrust with various political powers in service of "We the People." The list of limitations on who may serve as our president is not to delineate differing classes of citizenship. Rather, the presidential eligibility requirements are simply job restrictions that attempt to increase the odds that our presidents be wise, seasoned, loyal citizens who, by their very nature, are most likely to have our nation's (and only our nation's) best interests at heart.

The Constitution does not set separate classes of citizen based on age. Thirty-four year olds are every bit equal citizens to those who happen to be thirty-five years old. Citizens who have been long term residents are not special in any way to newly minted citizens. Similarly, no separate class of citizen exists based on whether one became a citizen by swearing an exclusive oath of allegiance to our great nation, or whether, through happenstance of birth to existing citizens, one naturally had no other choice but to be an American citizen.

It is disingenuous to attempt to pair as opposites legal post-birth naturalization granted by legislation with the presidential eligibility restriction of having been by one's very nature always exclusively an American and nothing but an American, i.e., a natural born Citizen. To conclude that being naturalized sometime beyond birth is the polar opposite being "natural born" is simply a false dichotomy with regard to the job requirements placed on our commander-in-chief. If you must think in such binary terms, then simply realize that naturalization (i.e., citizenship via legislation) can occur at birth (just ask any Puerto Rican citizen).