Mousethief speaks true.

The only exceptions I am aware of are children of foreign ambassadors or diplomats—employees or agents of foreign governments—who are born in the United States. They would be "natural born" citizens of whatever country their parents are from. This stipulation does not apply to those who are not in the diplomatic corps, or to immigrants or visitors from foreign countries.

There is also such a thing as dual citizenship. I knew a fellow in college who was born in South Africa of British parents, but who was a naturalized citizen of the United States. The U. S. State Department wanted him to give up his British passport, but it was not a legal requirement and he wanted to retain it because it would allow him to travel to countries that were "off limits" to Americans at the time, such as the Soviet Union. He wanted to maintain the flexibility. But—he could not run for President of the United States because he was not born in the U. S., nor was he born of one or more parents who were U. S. citizens.

No, unless "birthers" such as ichAbod and his buddy, the Reverend Manning, can establish that Obama was born outside of the United States or its territories and that neither of his parents was an American citizen, they're merely running around like headless chickens and making silly noises.

Don Firth