Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department has released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother – but records for the years surrounding Obama's 1961 birth are missing. The State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "non-vital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965. Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama's birth. The claim made in the FOIA response letter that many passport records were destroyed during the 1980s comes despite a statement on the State Department website that Passport Services maintains U.S. passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present. The records released, however, contain interesting tidbits of new information about Obama's mother, including the odd listing of two different dates and locations for her marriage to Obama's Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. In the released documents Dunham listed both March 15, 1965, in Molokai, Hawaii, and March 5, 1964, in Maui, Hawaii, as the dates and places of her marriage. Dunham later divorced Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii. The divorce decree took effect Nov. 5, 1980, but the divorce papers do not list the date of the marriage. No marriage certificate between Dunham and Soetoro has yet publicly surfaced, but a released application to amend Dunham's 1965 passport to her married name Stanley Ann Soetoro includes a checked box indicating a passport officer had seen the marriage certificate. The released records also document that on Aug. 13, 1968, Dunham applied to have her 1965-issued passport renewed for two years, until July 18, 1970. Under 22 USC Sec. 217a, from 1959 through 1968, passports were initially issued for three years, but they could be renewed for an additional two years. Obama, by any other name Also revealed by the released records is a heretofore unknown, alternative name for Barack Obama. In the 1968 application to renew her 1965 passport, Dunham listed as her son Barack Hussein Obama, including in parenthesis below the name, "Saebarkah," in what appears to be a variation of an Indonesian surname not previously associated in the public record with the president. For some unexplained reason, the designation of "Barack Hussein Obama (Saebarkah)" is crossed off the 1968 application by five handwritten, diagonal hash marks. S. Ann Dunham in Indonesia Dunham also appears to have used two different variations of her name in obtaining and amending passports while married to Lolo Soetoro: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro and, without her maiden name, Stanley Ann Soetoro. On April 27, 1981, Dunham applied from Jakarta, Indonesia, for a U.S. passport, indicating that she was in Indonesia working on a two-year contract from the Ford Foundation, from January 1981 through December 1982. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=186677
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Well, her 65 passport was probably her first one, when she was thinking of going for field study out of the country. She married (supposedly) Soetoro and went to Indonesia when Barack Jr. was going into the second grade.
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Give it up. Not a single reasonable person supports this idea. Even if he were born in Kenya he qualifies as a natural born citizen because his mother is a citizen. Same as John McCain, who was born in Panama.
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I think these allegations are incorrect. Check the sites at: http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=obama+citizen&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0
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There seems to be a lot of inconsistencies with Obama and after 18 months of lies and half truths as president, why would anyone believe he told the truth about his birth certificate and the fact that he keeps his past hidden, from schools records to draft registration does not help either*******************************************************************************************
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Your point is....? Perhaps you could provide more links like this to make it more credible, Also, if you don't like President Obama, don't vote for him in 2012. Or, you could even run against him. (I voted, but I neither voted Republican nor Democrat.)
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<sighs>
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This is all a moot subject. I'm satisfied he was born in Kenya, I am satisfied he went to school on an island where only island citizens are schooled and there is NO dual citizenship. I'm satisfied his grandmother knew where he was born. So what!!! Bill Klinton lied under oath to a Federal Grand Jury and the libs circled the wagons and NOTHING happened. Today Lindsey Lohan walked after two weeks on 90 day sentence. She was in for a crime where the sentence should have been years instead of months. And, it would have been for me or you. There are two sets of rules, one for Libs and celebrities and one for the working folks. The bottom line is we have this loser or Biden, probably worse. We are screwed, period, our only hope is a veto proof congress and the replacement of this whole administration ASAP. That means conservatives in office, not Libs or RINOs, not Republicans or Democrats; real, no kidding Conservatives. People who can read the Fvcking Constitution and abide by it.
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Obama is an illegal president. It does not matter where he was born, he cannot be a natural born citizen because his father was an alien. The Framers read and understood Vattel's Law of Nations....it states the citizenship of the son is that of the father. It was important a President have no foreign attachments. Obama being President is the biggest fraud in the history of this country's foundation. A natural born citizen is born to two citizen parents not one.
