Almost certainly NOT legally since he was already married to Kezia Aoko. Bigamy / Polygamy was unlawful in HI at the time.
Question then becomes, why did he show that obviously forged government document on his campaign web site? Isn't it unlawful for forge a government document like that? Um, yeah...I think so.
Also, why did he take the last name "Obama" if Sr. wasn't his legal father at birth? If Sr. wasn't his legal father at birth, how could he have taken his oath of office to the Senate and as POTUS under the name "Obama?"
Questions...many, many unanswered questions. Where's the damn media?
Crickets...
“Questions...many, many unanswered questions.”
The answers are there, if you look between the lines.
I don’t have any doubts that Obama Sr. and Stanley Anne were in fact married and divorced. It’s the circumstances that are of interest.
Stanley Anne knew — and was debauched by — Frank Marshall Davis long before she met Barack Obama, Sr. He even seems to have taken some racy snapshots of her (I will say no more except that the purported pics can be found if you search for them — look and judge for yourself).
I will speculate that Stanley Anne met Obama Sr. and began a relationship with him while she was still involved with Davis (who was married).
She may have found herself pregnant, either knowing that the father was Davis, or perhaps unsure whether it was Davis or Obama.
Even if she knew it was Davis, she couldn’t marry him, because he already had a wife.
So she took the easiest course of action to “legitimize” the coming child: she persuaded Obama that he was the “father” and got him to marry her.
Obama Sr. at first probably accepted this (not sure of just how much he knew about Stanley Anne’s prior relationship with Davis).
But at some point soon after the birth, my guess is that Obama Sr. began having doubts about his fatherhood of Barack Jr., and the fidelity of his young wife.
Perhaps he found damning evidence that she was still seeing Davis on the side. Perhaps there was an argument in which Stanley Anne suggested in anger who the _real_ father of the child might be.
With that, Obama Sr. saw little worth staying for, and simply left both her and the baby that he sensed wasn’t his own.
That’s how I see it.
(Alternate scenario: Stanley Anne, not pregnant, married Obama Sr. but still continued to see Davis, and got pregnant from him _after_ the marriage. But the result was still the same: a cuckolded Obama Sr.)
Now wait a minute.
For one thing, even if he married her in Hawaii as the legend contemplates, the fact that the marriage was polygamous and therefore constituted a crime does not vitiate the marriage. It might be grounds to dissolve the marriage but it would not make the marriage invalid.
Further, I assume that the marriage, if there was one, took place in Kenya, where it would not have been a crime; would have been socially acceptable as well as the norm.