In response to
Obama's Unnatural Half-American, Half-Foreign Citizenship

"the statute (granting citizenship through his mother) would be unnecessary due to the 14th Amendment bestowing naturalized citizenship at birth." ex animo david farrar

It seems you didn't grasp the fact that the 14th Amendment is constitutionally inapplicable to one who was not born subject to the authority of Washington, which includes all children born of foreign "non-immigrant" fathers. Such fathers, and their sons and daughters through them, are not subject to the most fundamental responsibility of citizens and immigrants, which is national defense in time of threat. Hence there was no intent by the authors of the 14th Amendment that such off-spring should be deemed to be U.S. citizens because they remained subject to the authority and protection of their own nation and the Law of Nations, and not the political authority of the U.S. government.

But your assumption that the 14th Amendment was applicable to Obama merely by virtue of a U.S. birth may shed light on the issue in a surprising manner. It would seem that such a view is not only held by those in the public but also by those in the government, and indeed I have a quote from a State Dept. official in 1901 that one born in the U.S. is a citizen by the decree of the Supreme Court (Wong Kim Ark) without any acknowledgement of the accompanying requirement of subjection to the full authority of Washington.

So....if that was the view all the way back in 1901, why would Congress every fashion a naturalization statute to include the situation of a child domestically born to a foreign visitor/guest? It Congress since then has erroneously assumed that the second requirement of the 14th Amendment didn't mean anything real, then there very likely is NO statute by which Obama is a citizen of the United States. Can I say Wow! What a possibility!