Aye, but did 0bama Sr., know about the "marriage?" I ask because one ancient citizenship scam was to pay homeless men to swear to a Justice of the Peace about an earlier "marriage."
This scam worked especially well when used on the name of a man who was soon to be leaving, or had already left, the U.S. to reside in a foreign nation.
Such a man could be "married" based on the word of a homeless drunk and a pregnant girl.
Probably doesn't apply here, though.
Light bulb moment! You might be on to something. Typical white granny might have known that Sr. would soon be off the island and out of their lives so what better way to make Ann's baby bump legitimate than with a faked marriage that Sr. didn't know about. He might have known about the baby after the fact, but not the marriage. That's why:
1) In Dreams, Ann was vague about the marriage and that it might not have been legal.
2) No one other than Abercrombie ever saw Sr. and Ann together before the "marriage"
3) Sr. and Ann never lived together.
4) There are no girlfriend/boyfriend pictures of Sr. and Ann, no wedding pictures, no newlywed pictures, no pregnancy pictures, no proud papa handing out cigars pictures, no bringing baby home pictures, no first home pictures, no pictures whatsoever.
5) There is no record of Ann on the island that last year Sr. was there and she didn't return until after he left.
6) Ann visited her old high school friend Susan Blake in Seattle shortly after the birth and Susan claims Ann didn't know how to change a diaper.
7) No newspaper article of that time about Sr. mentions a wife and son.
8) When Abercrombie visited with Sr. years later, Sr. didn't ask about Ann or Barry.
9) The divorce papers were "return to sender" and Sr. didn't respond. Could be they were purposefully sent to the wrong address.
10) Letters from Sr.'s old college friends talking about the election state they didn't know anything about a baby.
11) Barry doesn't look like Sr.
12) Something was in the BC Barry found in typcial white granny's closet that shocked him. It shocked him so much that he has since spent millions of dollars keeping it a secret. Perhaps the real papa was named and his name is Davis, or X or Smith or Jones.
As liberal as Ann and the Dunhams were, it may be that they did harbor some shame over an unwed teenage girl getting knocked up by a black guy. Perhaps Michelle was correct that pregnant "and very single" Ann was 'sent away'. Perhaps little Barry was really born in Hawaii and the birth announcement was the real deal (still have my doubts). Ann and typical white granny might have been able to hide the "marriage" from Sr. but then the birth announcement came out but with the Dunham's address, not Sr.'s. The announcement must have slipped past Sr. and everyone in Sr.'s circle because they claimed later that they had no clue about a baby. Seriously, how many college kids read birth announcements. Since all the islands send in their announcements, could it be that Ann was hiding out ouside of Honolulu but still in Hawaii? She could have been close to her due date and came home. She and the baby couldn't be seen in Honolulu, so she went back to Washington just long enough until Sr. left for the mainland.
Which leads to the question when did Sr. learn the happy news? There is still the unanswered question why Barry was sent back to his grandparents when he was 10. That was also when Sr. came back to Honolulu "for family business" and bummed off the Dunhams for a month during the Christmas holidays. Sr. visited the elite Punhau School and Barry not only got accepted but got the first of many scholarships. Could that trip have been because the Dunhams or Ann finally told him the happy news?