I’m still suspicious of the reasoning, and it seems to me that obtaining the passport has to do with an unwed pregnancy, and perhaps Dunham’s desire to travel to Kenya to have the baby and/or convince Obama to marry her by getting family approval. Of course, all this would have to fit in the timeline, and off-hand I’m not sure if it does.
The Kenya theory is just a red herring, preserved by the fact that Obama used to go around telling people he was born in Kenya. The evidence simply doesn't work.
Barack Sr's INS information indicates He never made a trip to Kenya until he left the United States in 1964. Had he made a trip to Kenya in 1961, it would have been listed in his documents. Barack sr. also was so broke that he had to work picking pineapples in the summer of 1961 just to afford his living expenses. His father didn't pay for it because he HATED the idea of Barack being involved with a non-luo woman, and Madelyn Dunham didn't pay for it either because she was mortified of what might happen to her daughter if she went there.
Any theory which has Ann Dunham/Obama going to Kenya by herself is absolute nonsense. If Ann went anywhere to have her baby it is either Northwest Washington State, or it was Canada. Her Uncle Ralph Dunham lived in Northwest Washington in 1961, and her Aunt Eleanor Berkebile lived in Newfoundland Canada in 1959. An embarrassing pregnancy always got sent to live with relatives in 1961.
I personally think that if she was sent to live with either relative, the odds are that she took advantage of Canada's free hospital care. This theory is far better supportable by the known facts than is a birth in Kenya.
mr barry obama sr was not exactly a good looking guy...can’t imagine any 17 or 18 yr wanting to marry him....