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David: This is OT, but relates in a way. I was raised to believe that you could not have dual citizenship in the US, PERIOD. I had a good friend in HS who cliamed to have dual citizenship because he was born here. However, his Welsh father was a British Counsel General stationed in San Francisco at the time and his mom was Australian. He always told his friends that he had to decide to renounce British citizenship when he reached majority (which was 21 at the time). He lived and died in the US and there was no further problem with his odd citizenship.
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What were/are the rules at that time? This would have een the same time period when Obama went to Pakistan.

Short answer is that I don't know.

Long before I went to Law School, we had a school friend who was in exactly that position (and lives today with her husband in Houston as she has all her adult life) and that is exactly the story she told when she was in High School--and later, we know she still claims both citizenships but have no idea what kind of elections she made.

A hot topic of the moment however. There are discussions in DC about currency and transaction controls. Banks in many offshore countries will no longer open accounts for US Citizens who don't have a second passport so I have decided to get one.

I too have an immigrant grandfather from a jurisdiction that would recognize me as a citizen. Son went into their DC embassy last week and got the paper work I need to file--son also would then qualify to get a second passport.

Banks in many offshore countries will no longer open accounts for US Citizens who don't have a second passport

What???? I never heard of such a thing, but that doesn't mean that it is not true. As I remember, that is why I wanted my mother to claim an Irish pssport so that I could get one too. That privilege does not extend to GREAT grandchildren. But she wasn't interested at the time, and I doubt that I could interest her now. She's 96. Actually "wasn't interested" is a mild description. She was downright hostile! LOL

Why does an offshore bank want to be sure that a US Citizen has another passport? So that the US citizen can quickly escape the US for some reason?

Where does that put US Citizens who routinely work overseas? Now my mind is spinning crazily...LOL

BTW, I own both The Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi and THe Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso if anyone wants me to look up something.

Corsi’s book mostly regurgitates and rebuts Obama’s book, Dreams from my Father and Freddoso’s book is more about BO’s rise through Chicago politics.

I really haven’t found either book to be too helpful which is why I forgot that I owned them.