“There is no record of Obama having an American passport, though he travelled abroad extensively, prior to the one issued him as an Illinois senator.”
How do you know this? Where are the records of previous passports retained? Should there be a record of a previous passport for Obama? If I give you the information on my current passport, can you tell me if I had been issued a passport previously, and where I traveled?
The State Department keeps passport records.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/services/copies/copies_872.html
Actually, I don’t know if Obama had an American passport prior to being a senator.
But the State Department does...and they ain’t talking!