[mnehring]

His mom was too young to confer citizenship if he was born outside the US and if her and Sr. where legally married and if she wasn't working for a government agency that sent her to Kenya.. Title 8 is a tangled mess. If he was born in the US, she did pass along citizenship (not to mention he has the 14th Amendment). If he was born in Kenya but his mother was not legally married, she may still have passed along citizenship. If he was born in Kenya and his mother was there as a government employee (such as working for a State school (she wasn't just pointing out how complicated it is) she would pass along citizenship.

[Velveeta]

Oy, I’ve got a headache. ;-)

My understanding, growing up with the topic, was that at the time if only one parent was a citizen, it had to be the father, as only the father could confer citizenship.

Funny, this is bringing back all kinds of memories of grade school discussions. Growing up in an Eastern European neighborhood of Chicago, many of us were in the same predicament at the time. I remember a teacher singling out those of us who were not natural born and saying - you and you and you and you, you can not be president.

We all shrugged our shoulders at the time. Like I wanted to be president? No way, I was aiming for ballerina princess.