Wow, good find, what is the “Barry J.” from 2001 all about? Did he really have a middle name beginning with “J” for some period of time, or what is going on?
Can someone who knows how to research the background of websites figure out what is going on with all these web pages that refer to “Barry J.” and also try to determine why a bunch of the links are dead, even links for pages in the Internet Archive?? Has someone been sanitizing these records or is there another explanation?
See this Internet Archive page from 2001 (it appears that in 2001 he was going as “Barry J. Obama” unless someone made a mistake in the middle initial that was fed out to several disparate web pages):
http://web.archive.org/web/20011017072106/ednet.rvc.cc.il.us/~PeterR/ST/ilstsen.htm
Referring URL: http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22barack+j+obama%22&hl=en&sa=N
Modified: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:09:59 PM
also see this one:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010531162217/capitolimpact.com/gw/illeg/ilss13.html
Honestly, I don't know. Perhaps we could check his transcripts from Occidental, Columbia or Harvard? Perhaps we could check his BAR application, or his passport, or drivers license?
Alas, us peasants aren't allowed to see any of that information.