Mr. Obama

[kandrathe]

Sorry for the seemingly stupid question here, but even if Obama was born in Kenya wouldn't he still be a US citizen? This seems to indicate so.

http://travel.state.gov/law/info/info_609.html
I mean, it's not like his mother stops being a US citizen the moment she (hypothetically) leaves US soil for a vacation.

I am finding this all way more fascinating than I should. We don't have this kind of political and extremist excitement up here in Canada. The closest we had was when our Prime Minister choked some dude at a protest and pretty much everything that Pierre Trudeau did.

The key part is;"For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen are required for physical presence in the U.S. to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child."[indent]If Obama was born August 4, 1961, and his mom was 18 at the time, she did not satisfy the requirement of 5 years after the age of fourteen. She is off by 3 months, so theoretically, if the Kenyan BC is accurate, then Obama was never naturalized properly. The grandparents could have placed the birth announcements as cover, and she might have flown him into the Hawaii. It would be interesting in that during the campaign, some accused McCain, who was born in Panama, of not being properly naturalized. There is a difference as well depending on how long your vacation. If you were born in the US, but left when you were 4, you'd only have 4 years of residency in the US. With McCain, just to be sure, Congress passed an Act declaring him to be a US citizen, so maybe they'd do something like that for Pres. Obama. Otherwise, it would be interesting to have Obama be the first non-citizen president of the US.

The part that doesn't jive is the eyewitness testimony of the attending nurse, but with a big enough payoff you can find someone to corroborate whatever story you want to make up.