[Jedidah]

Read the analysis at the links I posted.

The issue is not where one is born, but rather whether the individual ever took advantage of the citizenship offered.

The example used in analysis to which I linked is that of John McCain, who ostensibly would have been technically eligible for dual Panamanian/U.S. citizenship, but never used it. Rather, he obviously accepted and participated fully in the U.S. citizenship which he acquired at birth and was never Panamanian.

The argument is that Obama may very well have been a full participant in Indonesian citizenship, in probablility even traveling on an Indonesian (and possibly British or Kenyan) passport.

Again, read at the links.

The author, screenname Judah Benjamin, suggests that Obama was adopted by the Indonesian stepfather and that the adoption sealed his original Hawaiian birth certificate. Info on the amended bc (and possibly name changes) may be what they’re trying to hide.

It’s an interesting and well-researched theory.

[BohDaThone]

I still don't see any theory (or law) that YOU "take advantage" of dual citizenship by what your parents or step parents do when you are still quite a minor. I would certainly be appalled to think, for example, that my wholly American grandchild would be ineligible to be President, or "de-citizened" in any way becuase of what his parents, or step-parents, decided to do with him when he was 6.

And that's the only thing I can make out of this theory.

[ReignOfError]

Were birth records normally sealed in a second-parent adoption in the 1960s? They aren’t today. And I don’t think they were for Leslie Lynch King Jr. in the 1910s or William Jefferson Blythe in the 1940s.