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A Kenyan “certificate” may mean less than it seems, unless it actually indicates he was born there. I believe that many foreign nationals in the US who marry and have children with a US citizen may still “register” their children with the consulate or embassy of their country of origin. I know first-hand of a couple of cases in which this was done (for other countries, not Kenya).

It may not be saying more than “I Barack, Sr. am a Kenyan national who has fathered this child in America with an American woman and I want him to be eligible for citizenship in my home country of Kenya” — there may be more to it than that, but we should not assume there is any more to it than that.

Americans already know that Barack, Jr. had a Kenyan father, so that would not be the surprise. What may be embarrassing is learning more about whether Obama’s parents were really married or not (I have doubts that they were), his father’s other “wives” (Barack, Sr. fathered children with four different women from what I’ve ready).

There may be one or more facts hidden behind all of this that are more in the area of sensitive family embarrassments than facts that would really affect his eligibility to be POTUS. He’s not responsible for his parents’ behavior any more than anyone else is, and the day when a great stigma attaches to “bastard child” may be well in the past, but it still might not be something he wanted to advertise. Is Obama hiding something else?

"A Kenyan “certificate” may mean less than it seems, unless it actually indicates he was born there."

And that is what we do not know yet.

As far as Obama may be illegitimate, which more than likely he is, that stigma is long gone.

In your statement "Is Obama hiding something else." you are probably inferring that he is Muslim. I don't think the people who are voting for him give a rats ass to if he is Muslim or not. "Lets just ALL get along." don't you know.

I don't particularly want to get into the Kenya Birth registration argument at this point because the information is going to come out in the next week or so and then we will all know.

However Kenya was British East Africa, staffed by well-meaning Brits who were attempting to show the colonials how to run a proper government and the Brits ran an organized system.

The documentation is likely to be more complete than you suggest. What it does show we will know when it appears.