If I thought it productive to do so, I would locate the earlier post--I think it was addressed to me so that should not be difficult.
There is more than one library in Salt Lake City devoted to ancestry issues--the one referenced did not appear to be affiliated with the Mormons. However there are purportedly copies of the Kenya birth records in several locations--Salt Lake City is more likely to be convenient to people on this site than offshore locations.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/replies?c=3821
David had freeepmailed me AlbertaChild’s post 3821 back on 20 July.
See http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/new-birth-certificate-report-exclusive/#comment-4935
rachel // August 3, 2008 at 5:29 pm"Getting the freebies" is a reference to yet another theory that Obama took a trip back to Kenya to have his Dad adopt him in order to establish African bonafides so as to get special treatment to get into Harvard, or to get scholarships, grants due to that Kenyanosity.By jove, I think I’ve got it!!
Old Atlantic said: Very likely the Dunhams paid for Obama Sr to come to Hawaii. If they did an adoption in Hawaii w/o Soetoro’s consent or even real notice, then having the original dad there to say he supported the new adoption would help. You have the birth mother and father there with the grand parents.
Or he could have come to make a claim on BHO Jr.’s paternity to throw the Indonesian adoption into doubt. If Stanley previously claimed that she was “unwed” for BHO Jr. to be granted US citizenship status - then perhaps BHO Sr. could have come in 1971 to established that he indeed was married to Dunham at BHO Jr’s birth. Maybe he proved mom and baby were in Kenya during the birth, making the marriage legal. She’s a liar, so what! What are they going to do about it at this moment in time? This would have screwed BHO JR’s natural born citizenship status but it would have also screwed the Soetoro adoption and thus taken Barry out from under the thumb of Lolo. It would render that adoption invalid.
When the Dunham Sr’s (grandparents) then adopted him, seconds later, it would have been a foreign adoption since neither birth parent was a citizen at THAT time. But when the Sr. Dunhams adopted BHO jr - he would have instantly become a naturalized citizen. Not knowing he would run for president someday, who would have thought it mattered?
Then, when he wanted to get into Harvard, they probably let BHO Sr. adopt him in order to get the freebies. By then, I believe Barry may have qualified for US citizenship in his own right, due to his residency, so his birth parents citizenship would have been irrelevant to his citizenship status. (I’m too lazy and tired of this to go look that up)
As far as we know, BHO Sr. would have been happy to be named as the father on the birth certificate. He was his father! Why not make it right? It was just the legal aspect of the marriage itself that was ever a problem.
The beauty of it would be that he was born Barack Hussein Obama and would have ended up Barack Hussein Obama. The birth certificate information would be identical except for the certificate numbers. And From BHO Jr.’s point of view, he would have always been a US citizen.
there’s still just that pesky problem of the vital stats announcement.