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The rules have changed. At the time Obama was born, the rule was the mother had to have spent 5 years in the US after the age of 16. His mother was only 18. So if someone's got a birth certificate from Kenya (and didn't we hear a couple of weeks ago that three different people had copies in safe places?) they need to be producing it.

The Indonesia stuff only works if we believe that Obama himself stood up in front of a consular official before the age of ten and convinced him that he knew what he was doing when he renounced his citizenship. Any adoption or anything his mother did wouldn't have meant anything.

The rules have changed.

Yeah, about a half a zillion times, sometimes retroactively, sometimes not. The Constitutional phrase "natural born citizen" hasn't had a legal definition since 1795.

I'm inclined to believe that the Founding Dads were worried about divided loyalties.

Could a president born and raised in Bumfuqistan be completely unbiased in responding to a situation affecting US interests in Bumfuqistan? Would he/she feel the need to overreact to show no bias?

Likewise could a first generation American born son or daughter of hard core un-naturalized Oldcountrians fail to hold a soft (or hardened?) spot in his heart for Oldcountria?

I think they wanted the President to be someone who would unquestionably and instinctively put America first in every thought, word, and action.

Therefore, as far as I'm concerned a President needs to be born and raised in America, and have American parents.

I'll bend my stiff Kraut neck enough to allow both parents to be naturalized, and might even allow up to 6 of the kid's first 18 years to be spent in a distant land...