You wrote,
Does any of this matter?
Yes. Naturalization as a citizen of Indonesia arguably asserts another dual or multiple foreign citizenship and foreign allegiance which the Founding Fathers explicitly chose to exclude from eligibiity as Commander-in-Chief of the American Army and Office of the President when they wrote the natural born citizen phrase into the Constitution to do so.
There may or may not also be a circumstance in which his citizenship was renounced as a condition for naturalizing as a citizen of Indonesia. The tampering of the U.S. State Department passport files, however, may have broken the chain of evidence and scrubbed incriminating evidence in the event he ever acquired Indonesian citizenship and/or renounced U.S. citizenship. Regardless of the truth in any event, the tampering with the passport files by a political supporter of Obama may deny an opportunnity to discover that truth.
WhiskeyX,
The illegal accessing of the passport files plus the fact that most people feel Indonesia would be unlikely to cooperate is what I meant when I asked the question “does this matter?”
I also was hoping that, if he was piggy-backed on mom’s passport, there might be some hope of finding her records. I don’t recall seeing anyone discuss her passport files.
Since it is common knowledge that he was in Indonesia and would have been required to take citizenship to be adopted, no one in a position to do so has challenged his eligibility because of it. Since he was a child and his U.S. citizenship was renounced by someone else on his behalf, he could still be a U.S. citizen (if he was born in the U.S. - not likely) again, but not a natural born one if I have interpreted the many posts on the subject correctly.
Which brings me to another question. My husband and I spent an hour last night having a speculative conversation about the “miracle” of B.H. Obama.
Why is it, when so many people in Washington from the Senate to the CIA, SCOTUS, etc. know about Barry’s Kenyan father and about the Indonesia interlude, why have they and are they still playing dumb? Every single one of them! I don’t buy the thesis that they are all cowed by the idea that going after him would be tantamount to inciting race riots. The guy is a nightmare and almost anything would be preferable to 3+ years or more of his “rule.” So what the heck is it?
We came up with some rather outlandish theories including a foreign enemy with the ability to explode strategically buried nukes should their boy be challenged. Have you given this much thought?