Anyways, the whole issue of where Obama was born is moot, since he was born to an American parent. That means he had American citizenship from birth. The Constitution, nor other American law, specifies that a person must be born in the United States to be a natural born citizen. In fact, one of the few mentions of the term in early American law explicitly grants natural born citizenship to chilrden born overseas to American parents.
There is a legal method for the Senate to challenge the President's eligibilty on any grounds, including citizenship. If there were any legitimate doubts about Obama's citizenship, I have a feeling the GOP would have used those methods by now, but they haven't. In fact, the Senate (and the House) unanimously certified Obama as the winner of the election.
Anyways, if you say that Obama can't be a natural born citizen if he was born outside the US, then you'd have had to disqualify McCain as well. His parents were both Americans living in the Panama Canal Zone (US territory), but the hospital where he was born was outside the Canal Zone. It was a Navy hospital, but US-owned buildings overseas are explicitly NOT American territory unless they're part of an Embassy, which that hospital was not. So technically McCain was born in Panama.
Do I think that John McCain is a natural born citizen of the United States? Yes, even though he wasn't born in the United States. Obama, through is American mother, is also a natural born citizen, regardless of where he was born.
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