It's as watertight as 'Dreams' could make it, plus a little tweaking of the immigration documents. There's also the prepared speech SAD made to Susan Blake about being madly in love with a coloured man...and don't forget Neil Abercrombie, the only man in the world who ever saw ANN and the kenyan together. ANN he always called her, never Stanley Ann Dunham. ANN S OBAMA, ANN, as shown in the Polk in Hawaii.
The events and documents of 1964 would have mutually beneficial effects. Divorce/faux marriage servers mother and child. Senior, once he is aware of the divorce action or if he pre-blessed it he gets to use USC wife and child (note that he does indicate divorce is final though it is as his April 1964 INS form) as a reason to stay in US.
I read that twice and can't follow. But it is obvious that the divorce documents we have been shown gave her sole custody of a named child she wasn't seen with until he was more than two years old...unless you think (As I do) that's her with zero on page 18 of Muhammad Speaks...when he appears to be about five or six months of age.
If the FOIA are authentic he does reference SAD in 1961 - but not the child. Again, IF this is authentic then he is probably aware she is knocked up but does not know he is father. He fills out the form in September - a month after the supposed birth. He may be making up the status of ‘wife’ (vs. impregnated liason) to stay in the US - something he clearly wanted to do.
He crossed out the name of a person in the 'wife' section and wrote Ann S Dunham. Clever. That was 27 days after the 'birth' iirc. Imagine, Frank has worked his magic and arranged for the birth announcement of a son to Mr & Mrs Obama...Ann S Obama is shown in the Polk directory, now all the kenyan has to do is enter Ann S Dunham and he's replaced the wife who left him...and took THEIR child to Seattle, but why would he acknowledge a son he never had? This was a two-part deal, he gets to apply for an extension with a US citizen wife. THEN follows the how about you acknowledge paternity... or maybe he hadn't been paid yet? Why do you think these events took place? For love, or for money?
I really question any February 1961 real marriage at all. He was playboy, with a wife in Kenya. Love and family were not in the agenda. But having a ‘USC’ wife (and in 1964 - a USC child) give him hope of not getting deported.
It looks like he might have had a marriage of some kind before and she left him and went to Seattle, her parents were the ones who disapproved, it was her parents who made her promise to finish her education...it was this 'wife' he wrote home about and asked his father Onyango to help him save the marriage. There are a number of issues in this story that make me think she might have been a muslim like he was, he felt entitled to more than one wife. Or if she wasn't muslim herself, she may have taken part in some sort of muslim marriage ceremony. On one occasion he tries to explain that where he comes from, all one needs to do to obtain a divorce is tell the woman he is divorcing her. That isn't Kenyan custom, THAT'S ISLAM.
Real or stand in - he had material gain of claiming USC wife and later child.
And when Anna departed, he lost that. Or, alternatively he sent her away because he had a better offer, and told her all she needed to do was WAIT. He came into money rather suddenly, after working for only one month at the pineapple cannery...
Wife and child got material gain from a formal divorce in 1964 - cleaning up stigma background with a more legitimate.
And just as you are travelling down the highway in your smoothly running V8 coupe, you hit a speed bump and all your luggage flies out...
The man was an unprincipled rogue. His birth year went from 1934 to 1936 because he had an older brother (Yusuf/Joseph who has never been acknowledged,) it was Yusuf who graduated from the school at Maseno. The kenyan was arrested on some minor misdemeanour and would never have qualified to accept a scholarship in Hawaii or anywhere; so guess whose graduation docs he must have used to be able to accept? For all we know, it might have been Yusuf Obama Onynago who ended up at Harvard, and Barack Hussein Obama might be still living in the village...now wouldn't that be funny...