per CNN: U.S. Embassy Warns Americans to leave Russia now

[Effete Snob]

19. You see this guy:

The person pictured above was born in Colon, Panama.

And, no, being born on a US military base does not make you a US citizen. Foreign employees and contractors of the US military give birth in US base facilities all of the time.

He was a US citizen because he was born to US citizens. In Panama.

If his parents stayed in Panama, then he would have grown up in Panama, lived in Panama, never traveled to the US, and STILL be a US citizen who was born a US citizen, and eligible to run for president (provided he eventually moved the US for fourteen years).

The really amazing part is that if you read the Constitution:

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.

They obviously knew there would be adult US citizens who have not lived much of their lives in the United States, so they added a 14 year residency requirement.