[Eva]

I have been saying all along that I believe that the reason that they cannot find an original birth certificate for Barack Obama is because his name wasn’t Barack Obama at birth.

At the time that Barry was born, a child of an unwed mother had to be given the mother’s last name, not the father’s name. Obama’s parents were not legally married.

I think that the controversy started because Obama didn’t want to answer questions about why he changed his name to a Muslim name if he wasn’t a Muslim. He enjoyed the controversy over his place of birth because it detracted interest from the name issue.

[bgill]

At the time that Barry was born, a child of an unwed mother had to be given the mother’s last name, not the father’s name. Obama’s parents were not legally married.

Many have made bc requests for all the names he could have used (Dunham, Obama, Soetoro, Davis) as well as various spellings of those. Hawaii has released the computer generated index of Dunham/Obama marriage, however they won't show the original filing or the original handwritten index or anything showing the date it was originally filed. It's probably over at butterdezillion's site.

[LucyT]

July 2008

0bama’s mama was very young and single when she had him according to Michelle 0bama:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/10/1193601.aspx