We won’t put up with a person that falsified his Certificate of Live Birth, however. That someone is Hussein Soetoro
As I have posted before, there didn’t need to be any formal “adoption” of young Barry by Lolo Soetoro, and no record of such an adoption has been uncovered.
I speak of all this with first hand, personal knowledge of the procedure described in Hawaii, and in the specific time period in question.
Back in the 1960s, in Honolulu, the Hawaii Bureau of Vital Statistics had a policy of allowing unmarried mothers the option of not “disclosing” the name of a child’s father at the time of registering the birth.
Later, the mother could petition to have the record amended, or “regularized” in the parlance used at the time, to include the name of the “father”. Of course, the “father” named on the newly updated certificate was very often, perhaps most often, not the biological father of the child in question, but more likely the man the woman was to actually marry.
This expedited process was used to spare the time and expense of an adoption - but, strictly speaking, it involved a degree of fraud which was winked at by the authorities at the time.
It is easy for me to imagine that Ann Dunham might have declined to name Barak Obama Sr. as the father of her newly minted son at the time he was born, Obama being married to someone else at the time and all. “And all” also meaning that I have never seen any evidence that Ann Dunham and Barak Obama Sr. ever tied the knot themselves.
And, if Dunham did use this procedure for her little out-of-wedlock son, she just might have later had the name of Lolo Soetoro conveniently added to the Birth Certificate as the father of young Barry.
After all, she did marry the man and accompany him back to Indonesia. This process would have been very much eased and expedited if Soetoro were to have been named as the father of Ann Dunham’s young son.
But, it might be pretty hard to explain all this to a skeptical electorate in 2008. This theory, based in personal knowledge of the practice I describe, could explain the problem Barry has in coming up with an authentic birth certificate.