Obama took NO steps to claim UK citizenship, so there is no sign he felt any allegiance. My sister was born in Germany, but she has ZERO natural allegiance to Germany, although she COULD have claimed German citizenship.
Under the Kenyan Constitution, if Obama wanted to be a citizen, he needed to renounce his US citizenship:
“A person who, upon the attainment of the age of twenty-one years, is a citizen of Kenya and also a citizen of some country other than Kenya shall, subject to subsection (7), cease to be a citizen of Kenya upon the specified date unless he has renounced his citizenship of that other country, taken the oath of allegiance and, in the case of a person who was born outside Kenya. made and registered such declaration of his intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament.”
http://kenya.rcbowen.com/constitution/chap6.html#97
Obama didn’t have to take any steps to claim his British citizenship. It was his by birthright.
Same as Elg, right? U.S. citizenship was hers by birthright. Her parents couldn’t take it away from her by moving her out of the country and renouncing their U.S. citizenship.
Wouldn’t the same apply to Obama? His mother and grandparents couldn’t take away his British citizenship just by raising him in Indonesia and the U.S.
He held, for a short period of time, Kenyan citizenship. Since he didn't reaffirm his desire to KEEP his Kenyan citizenship, he lost it (per Kenyan law). In other words, since his "gained" Kenyan citizenship was NOT by birthright, if he wanted to keep that "gained" citizenship, he needed to expressly state so.
However, he was born with British citizenship (assuming Sr. was his legal father at birth) and he was born with U.S. Citizenship (assuming birth in HI). Both being his birthright.