Another thought that hit me sometime last week, a thought so simple that we all should have thought of it sooner:
Shouldn't he have been "Prince Obama?" He wasn't just the son of any 'ol 'Joe Blow' Kenyan, he was aristocracy!
Frankly, I think he is American,; his handlers didn't want the public to know that the author of Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet)--Frank Marshal Davis-- was his real father. His mother was sent away to have him.
It's just a theory.
Their family was fairly wealthy by local standards but they were not anything special.