“There is some evidence that Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro, at least under Indonesian law. “
I follow these threads and believe Obama has eligibility problems. But I have never seen evidence that Obama was legally adopted by his stepdad. What evidence do you have? If it’s only his school papers, that’s nothing.
You could find school papers on my oldest son when he was little where we listed his name with his stepdad’s surname even though he was never adopted by him. My son wanted to use our name so we let him. There were never any problems and eventually he returned to his legal last name.
You could find school papers on my oldest son when he was little where we listed his name with his stepdad’s surname even though he was never adopted by him. My son wanted to use our name so we let him. There were never any problems and eventually he returned to his legal last name.
I am not going to make a great effort to hunt up the evidence because it is not an aspect of this puzzle that intrigues me much, but I will tell you what I remember having read.
1. First, there is that one school record where his name is written "Barry Soetoro." I have repeatedly read that only Indonesian citizens were permitted to go to Indonesian schools.
2. I have read that under Indonesian law, a child is automatically adopted when a man marries the mother, if the child is less than five years of age.
3. On one of Stanley Ann's passport renewal forms, she lists her son's name as Barry SoeBarKah (or some such) According to blogger "Lame Cherry", in the Indonesian language, the name "means literally Who is this, but the son of Soetoro." Signifying that the Indonesians considered him adopted. (Here is a link.)
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/05/soebarkah.html
4. I further recall reading that his sister Maya Soetoro Ng has made a comment that implied he was adopted by her father, Lolo.
5. Maya said: "you were suggesting that because my father, his stepfather, had adopted him, that my brother was no longer American..."
6. The Dunham/Soetoro divorce decree says: "“The parties have 1 children below age 18 and 1 chidren above 18 but still dependent on the parties for education." implying that Barry is also legally Lolo Soetoro's child.
That is what I remember. Now what can you put on the opposite scale to balance that information? Is there proof he wasn't adopted by Lolo Soetoro?