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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Not necessarily. There are residency conditions the mother must meet in order to pass citizenship on to her child. I'm not saying this doesn't apply to Obama (I don't know much about his mother) I'm just pointing out that there are situations where U.S. citizen mothers CANNOT pass down citizenship.
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Yep, I'm aware of that, and he's still an American by those criteria. People, however, argue that there is a higher bar set for President. That would be what MysticCat is referring you to on the older thread. If you want to apply this logic, both are US citizens no matter where they were born...though Obama was born in Hawaii which passes the higher limitation.