Why would it be Soetoro when he didn't come into the picture until long after Obama was born?
Because Barack was officially adopted by Soetero and the “Obama” certificate (if his father was named on it to begin with) would’ve been vaulted away. As an adoptee (in almost all states) your OBC is NOT accessible after a legal adoption without a court order - and even then it’s a VERY tough legal battle to have access.
Because a new birth certificate was issued when he was adopted and the previos one sealed. It was in the other thread that you were in where this was discussed.
I agree that since Soetero apparently didn't come along until much later, the original, legal, long form BC almost certainly does not have Soetero on it, but there may well have been a Soetero version of this COLB, in support of adoption, acceptance through marriage, or whatever the Indonesian version of that would have been, contemporaneously.
Someone in Hawaiian government with access to COLB certificates and even a hand stamp might well have "seen their way clear" be helpful to Barry, apparently without doing anything "illegal" by putting together an Obama COLB, perhaps with referenced to a Soetero COLB in lieu of reference to the legal original, and in the process, changing or back-forming what was thought to be a seemingly inconsequential fact or two, e.g., "African" (sure sounds more PC than "Arab", doesn't it?).
The prospect of $422 million to spend, ascension to Messiahship and POTUS can be a very potent stimulant.
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Why the @#&$%&! does anyone get a "do over" with the voting populace in such a situation, irrespective of any court adjudication of where he was born or whether he's is a naturally-born US citizen?!?!
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