[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"As for the foreign status? I think junior took full advantage of scholarships, and portrayed himself as some Indonesian kid all the way up through Columbia University. He didn’t have to mess with the selective service business....as long as he played the foreign card. Someone eventually suggests that this is stupid and he needs to clean up the mess. He gets the amended birth certificate, gets a social security number, and acts like some pure American kid."

A cogent theory. This would fit perfectly with a militant Marxist "Draft Card Burning" mindset. When his political value was recognized and he agreed to sign up for the job (probably with only aspirations for Mayor of Chicago or Illinois Senator at the time of the political aspirational idea's inception), the process of sanitizing his past and restoration of his Jus Soli birth status began.

But why the Connecticut SSN and forged Selective Service Registration?

And anyway, how can he be a NBC with a foreigner, non-resident father?? No divided loyalties. It is impossible to deduce that the founders intended anything else by placing the language that they did into A2S1C5.

Perhaps the mailman can answer.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"As for the foreign status? I think junior took full advantage of scholarships, and portrayed himself as some Indonesian kid all the way up through Columbia University. He didn’t have to mess with the selective service business....as long as he played the foreign card. Someone eventually suggests that this is stupid and he needs to clean up the mess. He gets the amended birth certificate, gets a social security number, and acts like some pure American kid."

NJCTPL-worthy?
Please don't report me to the Mods for not pinging you earlier.