For several years now we have all heard the various arguments and rumblings about whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii or not. Donald Trump has again brought the issue to the forefront by recent interviews on television leading up to what many say will be his own announcement that he plans to run for the Office of President.
That people continue to question where President Obama was born is not all that surprising. Once people get hung up on something, they tend to stick to it - whether there are reliable facts to the contrary or not. What surprises me is that no one has yet pointed out that where the President was born is completely irrelevant to his meeting the constitutional qualifications to run for the Office of President.
Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States."
Obviously, President Obama was not a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the constitution (none of us now alive were). However, he is and has always been a natural born citizen of the United States and his location of birth does not change that.
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