Just a reminder everybody arguing about Barack Obama’s citizenship status. There are two issue here, not necessarily related.
One) The issue of where he was born, Hawaii or Kenya.
Two) The question of whether not his U.S. citizenship was, in any case, expatriated, but not legally repatriated.
The law in effect at the time of Obama’s birth was this: His mother had to be resident in the United States for five years after the age of 14 for her child born outside the United States to a foreign father to be considered a citizen by birth. My opinion is, this law would be found unconstitutional as a 14th Amendment violation.
However, the issues related to the expatriation of citizenship apply regardless of where he was born.
I do not know what the law is, but I think there is enough there to have the issue heard in court. Barack Obama may, in fact, have become an Indonesian citizen. Apparently, he traveled as a young adult on an Indonesian passport issued to him as a legal adult.
If he had become an Indonesian citizen, even if originally born as a U.S. citizen, he would have had to repatriate (restore) his U.S. citizenship in order to be eligible to hold any elective office in the United States, let alone be president.
