[El Gato]

It occurs to me that maybe it's in his best interest not to. Sure, maybe he was secretly born in Kenya, but a vast conspiracy of people who wanted him to become President 47 years later placed a birth announcement in the newspaper, and then conspired with Hawaiian record-keeping agencies, hitherto non-partisan, to risk their quiet, bookish careers to lie about the records they have on file.

It would not take a "vast conspiracy", just his mother or grandmother filing an unattended birth certificate. That would generate the announcement in the papers(plural) and produce the exact same "Certification" that was posted. The reason they would do that would be to make him a citizen, not so he could become President 47 years later. They'd need to do that because at the time of his birth, his mother was not eligible to pass on citizenship, if he was born outside the country to a foreign national father, not having lived in the US for a sufficient number of years (5) after her 14th birthday, since she was not yet 19.

[WellyP]

We have all figured out that it is very likely Obama, Sr. is not and could not have been Bambi's genetic father. Most of us assume Obama, Sr. signed the birth certificate to cover for Hot Pants Annie getting prego by another black man. We will never know what it cost the Dunham family to get Obama, Sr. to sign. He sure as Hell got out of town as fast as he could!

It appears that unknowingly, Obama, Sr. did us a big favor by passing on British Citizenship at birth to Jr., making it impossible for him to be a NBC.