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Is Obama an American citizen , that meets the standards to be president ?

I have heard to many different stories that he don't make the qualifications something like the governor of Calif

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So if he was born in Hawaii, was it a state when he was born if that would even matter

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So if he was born in Hawaii, was it a state when he was born if that would even matter

Update 3:

His father is Muslim in Africa and mother is ?? Do both parents have to be american citizens

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Hawaii Became an U.S. state on August 21 1959, Barack obama was born on August 5 1961. Therefore, making him a U.S. Citizen. Even if he was born before Hawaii's annexation, he still would have been a citizen because his mother was a natural born american.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a natural born citizen. His parents were austrian. He is a native austrian and a naturalized american. He cannot become the president of the U.S.A.

    So to answer your question, yes Barack Obama meets the standards to be president.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    There are quite a few problems with the regulation. First, it leaves out the vice chairman. The vice chairman has the comparable standards, yet does not would desire to coach them? 2nd, the bill says no longer something on the subject of the definition of organic Born Citizen. could McCain have been ordinary? Birthers (and no one else) won't be able to agree on what defines a NBC. 0.33, does the 14 years a resident recommend total or non-provide up? (Eisenhower and Hoover weren't non-provide up). Fourth, Obama could merely prepare his COLB, and in accordance to the finished faith and credit Clause of the form, it may be ordinary. that may not please the birthers. 5th, it basically applies to the election, yet no one votes for the president interior the election, they vote for electors. basically interior the familiar do human beings vote immediately for applicants. (it is going to reason a disaster if utilized on the final minute). 6th, it basically applies to the biggest party applicants. to no longer Independents, or new events, or write-ins. seventh, how can states placed on extra regulations than the form demands? they might't. Silliness and stoopidity.

  • 1 decade ago

    According to the plaintiff in Donofrio v. Wells, Obama was born to a father who was a British subject, therefore Obama assumed his father's citizenship at birth.

    Obama is potentially a citizen of four countries (USA, Kenya, Indonesia, Britian). Many of the various plaintiffs simply want Obama to renounce these other citizenships before taking office.

  • Anna P
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No, it has to be someone born on American soil. Obama was born in Hawaii and McCain was born on "American soil" of the Panamanian military zone.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Millions of American people voted for him because of his speaking abilities I highly doubt any one knows just what "change" really is. We will find out what it means if he will release his records or is he still to scared to?

    I will believe he was born here when I see an actual Birth Certificate. Let him unseal his records and lets have it! What was the purpose of his political party to have a fake one around if he was born here?

    Lets see his birth certificate and then we will see won't we?

  • 1 decade ago

    He was born in Hawaii, thus a natural born citizen.

    If he weren't eligible, he wouldn't be taking office on Jan. 20.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. He is. There aren't "many different stories". There's reality and there's the crackpots who can't accept that reality. Obama was born in Hawaii.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, of course. Otherwise, he would not be eligible to become a president.

  • 1 decade ago

    the only standard he meets is he qualifies for laws of affirmative action

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