http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law

See the "Birth Abroad to one citizen parent" there.

Ann would not have been living in the US for five years after turning 14.

Not every American citizen can pass their citizenship on to their offspring born in another country. As that link shows, the rules on it changed several times.

I get it now.

Not just the incredibly ignorant---some of their Federalist society (probably Liberty University graduate) legal beagles will make that claim too.

I recall some on the RW, who hated McCain, tried to imply his having been born on a military base in Panama to two American parents would likewise not qualify as "natural born"...

They have a penchance for ignoring facts or shaping their interpretation however they wish.

..... where the definitions of "natural born" are all over the map. It's not really defined anywhere authoritative to most folks.

But that's the stock in trade of certain operators in our political system. They get paid rather well for it, so it's no surprise that they constantly harp on such things. The baffling thing is that the popular media continue to pay attention to the street-corner rantings and red-crayon scribblings of the demented minds that come up with this nonsense.

Of course, since Mr. Obama was born in Hawai'i in 1961, there is no problem at all for people in their right minds.