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The problem is the the Supreme Court precedent does NOT fully support that Obama is a natural-born citizen under the Constitution. A citation of dicta from a state appeals court decision is NOT a Supreme Court precedent, especially when the state appeals court admits by footnote there is no Supreme Court precedent that supports their conclusion. The ONLY precedent that court actually cited does NOT support that Obama is a natural-born citizen. As for the “recent court decisions,” they are all over the road in terms of how each arrived at their decisions.

"The problem is the the Supreme Court precedent does NOT fully support that Obama is a natural-born citizen under the Constitution."
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And that, too, is your opinion. But that is not how a single court has ruled.

Of course, you can believe that the courts have ruled incorrectly. That's commonly seen among those on the losing side of court cases. But you've got a tough road to hoe -- it's not like these judges are all of the President's political party, or only represent a certain geographical segment of the country, or have insufficient judicial training or experience to render credible decisions. There has simple been not the slightest indication of a single judge agreeing with the "heritage-based" (two citizen parent) theory of natural born citizenship.

Notice that the first decision in this series, Ankeny v. Daniels, was issued (unanimously, of course) by the Indiana Court of Appeals. The plaintiffs did not like the ruling and appealed it to the Indiana Supreme Court, which refused to hear it. That set the stage for an appeal to SCOTUS.

Remember what happened? The plaintiffs didn't even file the appeal. They let the deadline expire and they allowed the decision to stand. And this was supposedly the case that would finally have given the birthers the SCOTUS decision they were looking for.

You can vote President Obama out of office. You can lobby for a Constitutional amendment to dismantle the currently existing laws concerning birthright citizenship.

Or you can continue to complain that all the judges are getting it wrong and keep hoping that some judge will see it your way. But, frankly, it doesn't look like your chances of succeeding that way are very good.