[Cruising Speed]

The whole Hawaii thing was so frustrating because geographic location at birth is not relevant---the citizenship of your parents is all that matters. Obama had a foreign national for a father so is therefore not 'a natural born citizen'. I think the fear (back in the 18th century) was that foreign royalty would send sons over here, splash money around, then groom their newly minted American kids to influence American policy in the favor of foreign powers.

Obama is not much of an American (having been schooled in Indonesia---a muslim school no less), but is clearly not an agent of Kenyan royalty.

Under my strict definition apparently Rubio would not qualify however under the Harvard Law Review definition he would because he did not go through any naturalization process.

[Duchess47]

Obama did not qualify, Cruz does not qualify and Rubio does not qualify. None of them are “natural born citizens.”