Is Romney any more eligible than Obama?!?!?!?!

George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American
businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO
of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of
Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He is the father of former
Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the husband of former
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney.
Romney was born to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico;
events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to
the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several
states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled
during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served
as a Mormon missionary in England and Scotland, and attended two
universities in the U.S. but did not graduate from either. In 1939 he
moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers
Association, where he served as the chief spokesperson for the
automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative
arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. He
joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became chairman and CEO of its
successor, American Motors Corporation in 1954. There he turned around
the struggling firm by focusing all efforts on the smaller Rambler
car. Romney mocked the products of the "Big Three" automakers as "gas-
guzzling dinosaurs" and became one of the first high-profile, media-
savvy business executives. Devoutly religious, Romney presided over
the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

While George Romney was born in Mexico, he was still considered a
viable and legal candidate for United States president. His Mormon
grandfather and his three wives had fled to Mexico in 1886, but none
of them ever relinquished U.S. citizenship. While the Constitution
requires that a president must be a natural-born citizen, the first
Congress of the United States in 1790 passed legislation stating: "The
children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the
sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered
as natural-born citizens of the United States." Romney and his family
fled Mexico in 1912 prior to the Mexican Revolution. However, the
Naturalization Act of 1795 repealed the Act of 1790[citation needed]
and removed the language explicitly stating that the children of U.S.
citizens are natural-born citizens. As such, it is not clear that
Romney was actually eligible for the office of president.

All of this makes Mitt the son of a Mexican Citizen. His father was
two generations removed from the US.

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