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Here’s an article about Kezia the real first wife, posted today.

It really looks to me as though the Zero team is rushing to the fallback position.

Which is:

1. To keep the Dreams parentage intact

2. To keep US nationality intact, so they need to make it so Kezia was the first aka “real” wife, therefore if Kenyan birth is somehow involved, SADO, if they can maintain parentage, as a single woman (bigamy) would have given nationality to any offspring. If SADO is accepted the mother but legally married to Obama the Kenyan, and the child is born on foreign soil, according to laws in place at that time, the child assumes the father’s nationality.

So they’re trotting out stuff like this, IMO. It’s a fallback defensive position.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2710201/posts

Barack Obama’s ‘time has come’ says father’s (Obama, Sr.) first wife
The Telegraph ^ | 28 Aug 2008 | Toby Harnden

Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 9:56:30 AM by TennesseeGirl

...A bingo lover who follows the US election on Fox News and al-Jazeera, Mrs Obama was just 19 when her husband left her in 1959 to study in Honolulu, where he was to meet Mr Obama’s mother Ann Dunham, then 17, in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii.

“My first born was two and the second one was in my belly,” she said. “He told me had an American scholarship and that he would come back.” When he did return in 1965 he brought with him a third wife, a white American called Ruth...

Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband’s polygamy, she said. “He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me...

The family are muslims, he may have had three wives, but he was entitled to have four if he could provide for them. It's not bigamy, it's polygamy.

And yes, it would be customary to ask current wives for permission as a courtesy.

Permission was given to enter a further polygamous marriage to someone the Kenya family names as Ann? That isn't conclusive as to who this further 'marriage' was to be WITH.

And just how was Kezia to know that the woman who 'was like a sister to me' was the same woman he had been given permission to marry?

The questions asked about Stanley Ann Dunham's trip to Kenya on the other thread, bgill and patlin, I will try to answer here:

No destination shown...and I do not recall what the source of this information was...

However, what is generally not known, is that the first trip to Kenya by zero was in 1983, not long after the kenyan was killed:

A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama's roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.

Note: No source link posted HERE, FOR GOOD REASON. More and more links to articles our of Kenya are disappearing.

Per little jeremiah:

“To keep US nationality intact, so they need to make it so Kezia was the first aka “real” wife, therefore if Kenyan birth is somehow involved, SADO, if they can maintain parentage, as a single woman (bigamy) would have given nationality to any offspring. If SADO is accepted the mother but legally married to Obama the Kenyan, and the child is born on foreign soil, according to laws in place at that time, the child assumes the father’s nationality.”

Per Kezia: "Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband’s polygamy, she said."

That contradicts the impression she gave the reporter who wrote the Daily Mail interview several years back who wrote that back in Kenya Obama Sr. was considered a bigamist:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506338/Barack-Obamas-stepmother-living-Bracknell-reveals-close-bond---mother.html

"Until now, Barack Snr has been portrayed as a bigamist and a drunk."

"Yet Kezia seems determined to defend the man's reputation."

"True, he behaved appallingly sometimes. He could be selfish and became disillusioned."

Kezia seems to have not been Muslim or to have had a Muslim marriage because at least two of her Kenyan sons converted to Islam as an adults (Malik and Bernard).

The Kenyan Marriage Act of 1902 as modified does not appear to allow mix and match marriages of Muslim, tribal and Christian to the same man for legal plural marriages.

Under the 1902 KMA, tribal marriages are legal and subsequent marriages are bigamous, including even marriages following Muslim marriage. Obama Sr. would have had to marry SADO in Maui or in Kenya in Muslim or Tribal marriage of the same kind as his as his original marriage to Kezia for it to be legal, from what it seems reading the code:

37. Marriages under native law or custom.

“Any person who is married under this Act, or whose marriage is declared by this Act to be valid, shall be incapable during the continuance of such marriage of contracting a valid marriage under any native law or custom, but, save as aforesaid, nothing in this Act contained shall affect the validity of any marriage contracted under or in accordance with any native law or custom, or in any manner apply to marriages so contracted.”

“49. Contracting marriage under this Act when already married by native law or custom.

Whoever contracts a marriage under this Act, being at the time married in accordance with native law or custom or in accordance with Mohammedan law to any person other than the person with whom such marriage is contracted, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.”

http://www.kenyalaw.org/kenyalaw/klr_app/frames.php