Since I saw the light on the Auntie thread*, I have concluded that the “born in Kenya” is their last fall-back position. He could say “I didn’t know I was born in Kenya” or “I thought it was okay since my [purported] mother was American” etc.
It keeps the public’s eyes away from the deeper darker stuff.
* http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2702976/posts
Reading your post, lj, made me go back and reread FN’s post #603.
“If no one can get their minds past Stanley Ann Dunham as mother to ANYONE but Maya, we will still be writing the same stuff in two years...just as we have during the past two years... “