Did you notice on p.29 of the pdf you posted where Obama writes, “I was American, she decided...” What a curious phrase to use!
LOL! Typical 'citizen of the world' - they know on which side their bread is buttered.
You said: “Did you notice on p.29 of the pdf you posted where Obama writes, “I was American, she decided...” What a curious phrase to use!”
But the full context is this: “But she now had learned, just as Lolo had learned, the chasm that separated the life chances of an American from those of an Indonesian. She knew which side of the divide she wanted her child to be on. I was an American, she decided, and my true life lay elsewhere.”
If you read that section, his mother is upset about how Lolo is “forced” to behave in order to get ahead—alluding to corruption/bribery etc. Notwithstanding her idealistic view that her son could grow up anywhere and have a happy successful life, living in Indonesia made her realize the unreality of that view. It motivated her to seek a way to get her son back into America to afford him all the opportunities that American citizenship would accord him—even at the price of long years of separation from him etc.
I think this evidence is “neutral” WRT Obama’s birthplace. A cynic could interpret it to mean she would resort to any means—including fabricating/altering birth records—to see that he would get this shot at American citizenship even if he technically wasn’t a natural born citizenship. But I think the statement is equally consistent with the view that he was born in Hawaii and his mom did not want to permanently alter his life chances by keeping him in Indonesia (even though that’s where she wanted to be regardless of how her marriage to Lolo worked out) into adulthood, at which point his prospects for ever attending an elite university or law school likely would have been remote given that his peers in Jakarta were privileged enough to attend the International School etc.
This doesn’t address the issue of dual citizenship, but again, the statement as it stands is neutral on that question as well IMHO.