How did the, "Barry Soetoro" name change happen and where are the legal threads to be unwound from the documentation of his name change(s)?
Very good question. Multiple names, a questionable birth certificate, questionable SSN, this all seems to go together. My sense is that the answer lies in the Indonesian phase of Obama’s career; I’m marking this as a topic to come back to in more detail another day.
Then there's this from the Kenyan Parliament minutes: http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/04/11/kenyan-parliament-claims-obama-born-in-kenya/
SR511 is a must read on definition of NBC and signed by the imposter and Hellary: https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/the-introduction-of-a-senate-resolution
Along with his sick joke about being born in Norway, he also said his middle name was Steve.
In a scrubbed site that had included "Reminiscence" of Sr., his good friends at the East-West Univ. all wrote they had no clue about SAD or a baby. Even Gov. Pothead Abercrombie who claimed he was "there" has had to shut up on that lie.
His Canadian BC was issued with the name Stephen Barnard Dunham (spelling may be off).
I don’t think his name change is at all important. He was born Barack Hussein Obama II but probably called Barry. When he was small, his mom married Soetoro. She or he wanted Barry’s last name to match the family. Probably on his Indonesian papers he took the new father’s name officially, as well. At some point back in Hawaii he went back to using his name Obama.
My first son had my first husband’s last name. For a while he too used his step dad’s name. Even schools allowed this. Then he went back to his father’s name. No big whoop.
Barring hard evidence to the contrary (and if somebody has some, please chime in), I think Yaelle's answer at #91 is the simplest explanation. From what I'm seeing, the Soetero moniker seems to have been used mainly when "Barry" was in Indoensia. There are records of "Barry Soetero" registered at Asisi Primary School in Jakarta in 1968, as mentioned in the third and fourth posts in this series:
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia - Part 2
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia - Part 3
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia - Part 4
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia - Part 5
So we know that name was used there. In Hawaii "Barry" seems to have gone by "Barry Obama"--see the group photo caption here:
Hawai'i's imperfect melting pot a big influence on young Obama
There was a rumor that Obama registered at Occidental College as Barry Soetero, but this seems to have been debunked as disinformation, and we don't have his Occidental records to prove the contrary (that I know of). Here are a couple links hashing that out.
Is Barack Obama AKA Barry Soetoro?
At Columbia, he published his anti-nuclear article under the name "Barack Obama":
Obama's 1983 College Magazine Article
From Harvard on, he's "Barack Obama". There was a lawsuit to release additional records on Soteoro, Allen v. Soteoro, but as far as I know, it didn't yield the release of any records: