The Congressional Research Service finds Soetoro inelligible.
May 30th, 2011:
Discussion ensues:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2727177/posts
Wait, didn't they say the complete opposite?
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Another take on the topic... Consider the likely consequences should the powers that be (or were) rule Obama ineligible on what would be commonly thought to be a technicality just to deny a black man the duly elected presidency.