I apologize for not realizing Obama was born in Hawaii. I knew he spent his childhood there, but thought it was due to a move after he was born.

But as to Jim Lad's comment, "You have to be born in the U.S. to become president of that country. I'm guessing that you are not American or you would have known that." here's the appropriate section of the U.S. Constitution (Article II - Section 1):

"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

The requirement for being a natural born citizen of the U.S. is that either (A) you are born on U.S. soil or (B) at least one of your parents is a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth. That would make Obama elligible regardless of where he was born as his mother was a U.S. citizen. Thousands of natural born U.S. citizens are born every year to parents who happen to be living or working abroad.

As to my not being American, both my parents are U.S. citizens and I was born in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California.