“The U.S. doesn’t recognize ‘dual’ citizenship.”
Not so. If you are born a citizen of the U.S. and one or more other coutries, or if you assume the citizenship of another country without renouncing U.S. citizenship, our government allows you dual citizenship for your entire life.
Even if Obama wasn’t born on U.S. soil (and that’s a big “if”), wasn’t his mother a U.S. citizen? That would also make Barrack a natural-born citizen.
No, because she did not fit the definition of living in the US at least 10 years, five of which over the age of 16. She was 18 when she had him and obviously his father didn’t qualify either.
Yes, though weren’t some people here claiming that at the time the Constitution was written, ‘natural born’ was also taken to mean without the divided loyalties of any dual citizenship? I don’t think that’s ever been established in court and wouldn’t be upheld in this case, but that was also part of the argument.
Also, this ‘debunking’ doesn’t address the theory that Obama was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather and given an Indonesian passport at that time, but if he then later traveled to Pakistan on that passport, as is suspected, over the age of 18 that that would have been taken as a disowning of his other, American, citizenship.
I don’t think any of this is going anywhere, btw.