It is that seconf quote, by Morrison Waite*, upon which the anti-birthers all hang they’re hats.
They argue that because Obama was born in Hawaii, a state in the United States of America, to an American mother, he is a natural born citizen, and who his father was doesn’t matter.
You and I may disagree, but I do believe it is going to take another Supreme Court decision to rule one way or the other, and even so, the current times and politics will dictate the verdict more than the mindset of the Founding Fathers, sadly.
* I had to look him up. He was the 7th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Ulysses S. Grant directly when all of his previous nominations resigned due to corruption! Moreover, I and Waite are distantly related, as in Colonial times, my family settled Connecticut (Roger Tyrrell, Milford, Connecticut, 1636).
Maybe. He may have been born in Canada. And maybe he's somebody else. There is no BC. Any nutty theory is equally as credible as his "word".
to an American mother
Who may not have been eligible to convey citizenship due to age and length of residence. She was present in Washington State two weeks after the blessed event. How did that happen?
he is a natural born citizen
Morrison Waite says that's a stretch.
and who his father was doesn’t matter.
Of course it does, unless that's not his father who really is a US citizen, but then that makes his whole life's narrative a huge whopper.
Obama himself stated he was born a British Subject....once again, so much for being a "NBC".