Originally Posted by
SJC1K
There's no question that the OP can be elected President. The requirement is that you be a natural-born citizen of the United States, i.e., born a citizen. The OP was born a citizen, not by virtue of birthplace, but by virtue of the fact that a parent was a US citizen (indeed, both parents were).
Under some conditions, both parents to have to be citizens in order for their child born abroad to be a natural born citizen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...States_citizen
And even if both parents are citizens, under some conditions, that is not sufficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...tates_citizens
So let's say an army brat never lived in the USA after he turned 14, but because both parents previously live din the US and were citizens, he is a citizen. Later he marries a non-citizen abroad, and then goes to work for a U.S. oil company, faithfully filing U.S. federal income tax returns each year. Is their child a U.S. citizen? Nope. Yet if a couple drug dealers from South America set up shop in Illinois and have a kid born in the USA, that kid is a citizen.
Insane.