What I was trying to explain this morning, from an old rec.arts.comics faq over whether Superman could become President:
post-Crisis, the theory seems to be that he can because Kal-El was sent to Earth in fetal form and wasn't truly born until the birthing matrix in the ship opened up in Kansas.
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Date: 2005-07-22 01:24 pm (UTC)See also Terence Chua's comment in this thread