Obama Eligibility: Natural Born Citizen Requires American Born Father

By Douglas V. Gibbs

On July 31, 2009 I wrote: So, in addition to being born in the colonies, and later the states, one's father must have been born an American as well. Women were, at the time, not as important of a factor. Heirs are sons of their fathers. Citizenship was something, in a sense, you inherited from your father. So, to be a Natural Born Citizen was a person born in America of an American father. Later, as the importance of women grew in society, it became important that a person was the child of two American parents in order to be a Natural Born Citizen.

A year later, everyone else is finally catching up. . .

Two days ago World Net Daily wrote: President Obama may not fit the constitutional eligibility requirement that stipulates only "natural born" citizens can serve as U.S. president. . . according to correspondence from the original framers of the Constitution as well as multiple Supreme Court rulings and the legal writings that helped establish the principles of the Constitution, Obama is not eligible to serve as president since his father was not a U.S. citizen.

As I have stated before, the birthers have a right to ask, but I am not sure Barack Obama was necessarily born outside the United States. He may have been, I don't know, I wasn't there. However, as I have stated numerous times, when it comes to Obama's eligibility, his place of birth is not the problem, it is the fact that his father is a citizen of Kenya. Also, when it comes to the birth certificate, I believe it is not being concealed because of his birth place, but quite possibly because of other information that may be contained on the document.

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