I am loathe to wade in to this discussion, for many reasons. I chose to say "it's complicated" because it's not as cut and dried as you imply.
Let's hypothetically say that Obama had been born outside of the US, just like McCain (and I have no doubt that had McCain won, Obama's 'most ardent supporters' would be denigrated as "birthers"). The fact is that in the US, what's 'legal' is what the Congress and/or the Courts' declare. Once it's pronounced (and in the case of a president's qualifications, it's the US Senate that makes such pronouncements), it's done. If the US Senate decided it wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger to become president, it would declare that he met the Constitutional qualifications (35 years old and natural born) if it took passing legislation adopting Austria as a US territory and making it retroactive.
The US Senate already made that declaration about Obama in a backhanded way when it declared McCain to be "natural born" in a resolution co-sponsored by Obama.
What is "legal" is what the American people allow. That's really the bottom line. And with our political atmosphere of saying something often enough, loud enough, not taking no for an answer and wearing people down, those so motivated get what they want.
With the 'New World Order', a one world economy, beyond borders, corporate governance, we're moving in the direction of foreign-born presidents. There already is a move afoot within the establishment elites change the legal definition for 'natural born' to be interchangeable with 'a corporation chartered in the US', so that, for example, a CEO of a transnational corporation headquartered or doing business in the US would be qualified.
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