MEMO TO BIRTHERS -- The Constitution says nothing about location as a condition of citizenship and eligibility to be President of the United States. It requires that the President be a "natural born citizen." If only one parent is a U.S. citizen, the child is a "natural born citizen," no matter where born. But the birthers, currently led by Donald Trump, apparently have not read the Constitution, and insist that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, refusing to even look at the long form birth certificate with raised seal issued by the State of Hawaii and released by the White House. Now they are demanding to seen his college transcripts, and seem to be on the verge of claiming a vast conspiracy to perpetrate a fraud on the American people.
Millions of Americans were born in other countries, including John McCain (born in Panama), and are "natural born citizens" of the United States because a parent was a citizen. And this is certainly true of Barack Obama's mother.
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