“Other than a foreign national for a father who, through descent, made Obama a natural born subject of Great Britain, or the part about not legally being able to prove he was born in the United States???”
To repeat myself, Mike Gravel’s parents were French-Canadian immigrants. Gravel had TWO British citizens for parents. And yet he got matching funds.
And Joe Biden has never produced a jot of evidence to prove where he was born. Yet he got matching funds too.
So why do you think the FEC would give matching funds to them, but not to Obama? What did Gravel and Biden do that Obama didn’t?
His parents immigrated to the U.S. seven years before he was born. They could have naturalized. Obama's parents were not immigrants. Barak Sr. was a British-Kenyan who stayed that way. SAD married the British-Kenyan and almost immediately after divorcing him, married an Indonesian. She's not exactly a loyal American citizen. The question was about the difference, and there's still a difference. I also mentioned elsewhere Obama may not have wanted to take a chance since he lacked the legal ability to prove he was born in the U.S.