[Old Teufel Hunden]

"When Obama was born, the US code said that if the mother was NOT 18, she could not confer citizenship based on her birth status. That was later changed."

Okay, did a quick little research on the internet. Obama's birthdate is August 4, 1961. Anne Dunham's birthdate was November 29, 1942. That means she was 18 at the time of his birth. So by what you stated she could confer citizenship. However, I remember reading somewhere that the qualifier was that if she was under a certain age, the father was not American and the child was not born in America she could not confer citizenship. That law has since been changed but was in effect at the time of his birth.

[little jeremiah]

The law in 1961 was such that if the mother had spent 5 yeras in the US after the age of 14, US citizenship would be automatic upon a child born out of the country if she was married to a foreigner.

She would have had to be 19 for him to automatically become a US citizen, if born in Kenya.

And that would have been a citizen, not a Natural Born Citizen.