Is he allowed to be President? He was born in Canuckistan and his father only became naturalised in 2005
His mother was, alas, a US citizen.
I thought both parents had to be USAnian citizens
Anyway, I look forward to the Tea Party fruitbats who previously took up cudgels against that nice Mr Obambi for having allegedly been born in Indonesia or Tau Ceti or somewhere doing the business...
It's complicated on accounted the Constitution says 'natural born citizen' but conspiciously fails to define 'natural born'. Further complicated that the majority of the early presidents (with the exception of van Buren) had been British Subjects and I imagine they didn't want to disqualify themselves.
Provided his mother met the residency requirements (if I recall, 10 years on actual US soil), then any child born to her would be considered a 'natural born' US citizen. Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be born on US soil, but you do have to be born a US citizen (and not be naturalised as a US citizen later, sorry Arnie) and then have lived in the US for fourteen or so years. It's always been a bit of a hot pickle, there's been quite a few arguments about candidates born in pre-state territories (the last mainland territory to become a state was Arizona in 1912), John McCain was challenged on the fact that he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, and even Al Gore has issues because he was born in Washington DC, which isn't a US state, hark the licence plate cry of 'Taxation Without Representation').
There are two primary fruitbat arguments about Obama, one is that he cunningly faked his birth in Honolulu, something which requires a grand conspiracy, or more interminably one of the above arguments, that his father was a British Subject (or whatever category was afforded to Kenyans pre-independence). Despite much digging, no fine legal mind had discovered anything that says both parents have to be US citizens (both Obama and Chester A Arthur have demonstrated this). Of course, Cruz complicates it by being born outside the US.
In other news, whatever his status, he's a nutjob. Protests about his ineligibility would perhaps result in a mutual nutjob annihilation.