There are sham marriages and sham divorces for different reasons.
In this case, in 2011 a national best seller “The Other Barack” announced to the world that BHO Sr. kicked out of the USA for being a suspected bigamist and serial predator making the Ayers-writen “Dreams” a fantasy.
The “improbable love” narrative was key to Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign and his 2008 campaign but the narrative is toast for the 2012 campaign.
So to get down with the folks Axelrod is now trying to sell Obama as a kid from the hood...child of s single mother. So BHO Sr goes under the bus...just like he threw Barry and his mom under the bus.
There was no legal marriage in HI under US and UK law if BHO Sr had a legal tribal marriage already in Kenya. No Muslim plural marriage escape applies because HI would not recognize a plural marriage. Kenya would almost certainly not recognize the HI marriage as a plural Muslm marriage, nor did UK law recognize any foreign marriage that would not have been legal in HI. (My head is spinning...)
So even if there was a civil marriage in Maui on Feb 2 1961 (no actual marriage documentation is yet in evidence), it would have been bigamous in both HI in Kenya if BHO Sr was criminally bigamous, as was stated to be suspected by US INS and the U of HI files!
Fortunately for Obama the “sting” of being a bastard is greatly reduced by him no longer being a UK subject at birth and thus much more likely to be ruled by SCOTUS to be NBC. But, as I have said no FR and on Leo Donofrio’s site for two years now, Obama has always known this could be a fall-back on the NBC issue.
I don’t think the new sham marriage angle is going to fly. It will just show that the previous biographical details were not true. It doesn’t look good for his legend. What dreams of my father?