It doesn't matter whether you accept it or not it's not up to your will but it was up to Obama's fathers will! The condition that you are not understanding is that the founders always gave deference to the individual (parent) that being the father and to whom he chose to ally himself with was the final arbitrating factor for the child's birth condition to fall under! The Founders always made the individual sovereign over their own wills this is why even prior to England relinquished the Colonists from their "Subject condition" in the Treaty of Paris, they were considered by the United States as owing no foreign allegiance because they chose by their sovereign wills to adhere solely to the States thus relinquishing themselves from their former sovereigns and as far as the Founders were concerned England was not considered and the relinquishing of the colonist's former "subject" condition in the Treaty of Paris was simply a formality! This is how it has always been since the Declaration of Independence the sovereign individual needs no approval from the state to choose their own allegiance! Our naturalization laws reflected such in that even if a former sovereign were not to release their hold on a person swearing the oath of allegiance to the U.S. and their renouncing of all other former sovereigns, the U.S. only respects that will of the sovereign individual and not the will of the former state! Thus if one owes allegiance to a foreign state it is their choice just like it was Obama's father's choice not to adhere to the U.S. and we would never make him do such and it was Obama Sr's choice which conditioned Obama Jr. at his birth no matter where he was born!