That's incorrect. When Obama became a U.S. senator, he was issued a U.S. passport as an official representative of the U.S. government. The Chicago Tribune referenced it in an article about his trip to Russia with Senator Lugar.
It had been more than five years since Obama had been outside the United States. His blue tourist passport, which he had taken across Asia, Australia, and Africa, as well as most of Europe, was replaced by a burgundy one that designates him an official of the U.S. government.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509230360sep23,0,1103689.story?page=2
The U.S. Senate travel office is responsible for obtaining official passports for newly elected senators. They will not respond to my requests for information about the documentation they require to obtain a U.S. government official's passport.
This raises more questions than it answers and it doesn’t change the point I was making. This story was dated Sept. 23, 2005. Obama’s jpg of an alleged COLB is stamped with the June 6, 2007. IOW, Obama didn’t use the COLB to get the passport in that story. What document(s) did he use and why didn’t he show those documents instead of the jpg?? Why would he need a new COLB if he had something else with which to obtain a passport as a senator?? Also, this still leaves a huge hole between 1968 and 2005 ... a time in which Obama may have used an Indonesia passport or may have retained Indonesian citizenship as an adult.