[Plummz]

Someone should ask the Time reporter(s) if they’ve actually seen any divorce records, or if Time was just transcribing what someone from the Obama camp (Maya would be my guess) told them about “divorce records.”

[jellybean]

Here's the Time article - The Story of Barack Obama's Motherbr> By Amanda Ripley/Honolulu

The reporter was in Honolulu, so it's hard to say if she actually looked at the divorce records or not. The article implies that she did, but it's not completely clear.