[frog in a pot]

Oooops, just read your #196.

Please bear with me until I can shake what very well be a non-issue.

My attempt is to distinguish between the name O used in that era and the name current speakers use when referring to him several decades later. It has to do, of course, with the use of foreign student status.

I am on my way out, but will pursue the point in the next few days. The issue being, “What is there in the record that indicates O discarded the name Soetero and formally began to use the name Obama?”

[Fred Nerks]

Barack "Barry" Obama in 6th grade at Punahou.

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Other than the 'enrollment' of Barry Soetoro in an Indonesian school in 1968 that uses the name Soetoro - there's no evidenc what-so-ever he was adopted or that his name was ever Soetoro. As the name Soebarkah was removed from SAD's passport in August 1968, and his name was shown as Barack Hussein Obama 11 at that time...why would we assume he was ever known as Soetoro?

He attended Punahou, according to the images above, as Barry Obama. Not as Soetoro. Although Lolo Soetoro and Stanley Ann Dunham-Soetoro filed joint tax returns IN HAWAII for 1973, only one child (Maya)was claimed as a dependant.

[Fred Nerks]

Classmate shares photos of Obama from Punahou School yearbooks

The redhead, all grown up, lives in Steamboat Springs. Lynne and Scott Marr run the Holiday Inn, and Lynne Marr (raised Lynne Schoen) attended fifth through 12th grade with Obama at the Punahou School in Honolulu. Obama, known as "Barry" in those days, played basketball and signed his name with a drawing of an Afro above it, Marr said.

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