Birth Citizenship and The Presidency

The birther issue just keeps popping up these days with crazy new stunts and conclusions based in insanity.  The latest one is that the Obama administration admits it faked his birth certificate.   For that specifically I am just going to leave it as it is as the whole thing has be debunked countless times.  The larger issue I want to tackle is the requirement that the candidate must have been born in the US or in some rather feeble interpretations, born in the US to two US citizens.  It strikes me as odd that in the land of the free where everyone supposedly plays on a level playing ground (other issue entirely) that the leader of said free country is restricted by something out of their control and has no real bearing on their ability to be President.  The person could have been destined to become the best President the country has ever seen and ever will see, lived here for 50 years, been a citizen for 49, but was born elsewhere and brought by his parents as they immigrated to the USA.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that he wished people to be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.  While this isn't a race issue, the sentiment remains.  Why are people even raising the issue in the first place?  Yes, for some it is because they refuse to accept reality that they are not members of the majority voice of the country, but there is definitely a "not one of us" for many others heavily involved in this issue.

It is obvious why this was originally in the Constitution.  There was a genuine fear that foreign powers might try to usurp the sovereignty of our budding nation, but that time is long past.  Even with the Cold War, technology and communication was so much better, as well as looking into basic backgrounds, that the amount of energy that would be needed to have two adults move to a new country, have a child, raise that child so perfectly that one day he/she will even have a chance at public office let alone the Presidency without their parents political leanings ever being discovered.  Then you take into account all the checks and balances involved.  Yeah, this is a really relevant provision of the constitution isn't it.