[dynoman]

“If he was a citizen at birth then he is a natural born citizen.”

Then so was Obama.

[Zhang Fei]

Then so was Obama.

Why is this controversial? Whether he was born in Kenya or Hawaii, by virtue of his mother's citizenship status, Obama is a natural born citizen.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

“If he was a citizen at birth then he is a natural born citizen.”

Then so was Obama.

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The question with Obama, as I always understood it was different because of the age of his mother. Again from the Cato Institute:

“So why all the brouhaha about where Obama was born, given that there's no dispute that his mother, Ann Dunham, was a citizen? Because his mother was 18 when she gave birth to the future president in 1961 and so couldn't have met the 5-year-post-age-14 residency requirement. Had Obama been born a year later, it wouldn't have mattered whether that birth took place in Hawaii, Kenya, Indonesia, or anywhere else. (For those born since 1986, by the way, the single citizen parent must have only resided here for five years, at least two of which must be after the age of 14.)”