That's my point...you have a perfectly sound case...but, let's suppose in this day and age of multi-culturalism, the child picks up English as a second language with the foreign tongue being spoken at home. The child's parent's indoctrinate him as a foreigner living abroad in the U.S. (this happens regualrly in both Hispanic and Muslim Communities in the U.S.) with allegiances elsewhere. It may be in compliance with the letter of the Constitution as presently interpreted, but I would contend it's inconsistent with the spirit of it, and the NBC clause in particular. It's a dicey argument and I don't pretend to know the answer...I just think the case of our current President begs for clarification as much for the future as it does for the present.
It may be inconsistent with you're interpretation but I'm not aware of any clause in the Constituiton that defines natural-born citizen, or any Supreme Court decision that does so either. In the unlikely scenarion you mentioned it'd be up to the voters to decide, and I'd be unlikely to vote for such a person regardless of their political party. In the scenario I described, you would deny Bobby Jindal a chance to run for president.
“It may be in compliance with the letter of the Constitution as presently interpreted, but I would contend it’s inconsistent with the spirit of it, and the NBC clause in particular.”
Yeah, but a natural born citizen becoming president who was indoctrinated into America-hating by his foreign born grandfather/grandmother, uncle/aunt, or adopted father/mother would be against the “spirit” of the clause, too. That’s the problem with laws. They aren’t perfect and don’t always do exactly what you’d have them do.