I think people are looking for a 4-star episode with the birth certificate...and probably are missing what really exists....a 2-star episode that ruins his book story and legendary Kenyan father.
Lets sum up some facts. You are the mother of some 17-year old girl who is a nutcase. She’s absolutely immature and unable to grasp her actions. You realize that she’s applying for various east coast and Chicago area colleges....all far extreme in political vision (even for 1960). You rig up some last minute job and basically jam this family move down her throat in hopes of getting her to go with the family to Hawaii.
The family arrives in Aug and the kid is already four weeks into the new semester...yet the kid signs up and starts college in Hawaii. Barely eight weeks pass...your nutty daughter is now preg because of the only Kenyan guy in the whole college.
With morning sickness underway, your nutty daughter is having huge problems adapting to real life and motherhood. By early January, she’s decided she can’t do the second semester under any circumstance. So she sits at home....while mom and dad work, and her boyfriend attends full-time college.
By March, your nutty daughter has decided to marry the Kenyan guy. She spends all her time at home....quiet miserable and unhappy with this whole mess...and days after the marriage really don’t make anything better. August comes, she delivers and then immediately announces her packing up and going to Seattle and college there. Your daughter doesn’t care for your supervision or wisdom.
By the end of the year....this marriage is basially spiraling downward. Stanley, your nutty daughter, is attending class fulltime and barely able to give any free time to this kid that she’s stuck with. She’s a lousy mother.
By age 4 or 5....this kid is now facing a mother whose finishing up college, divorced from the Kenyan guy, and now dating some Indonesia dude. The Indonesia will take the whole family but he’s going to give the name and citizenship as part of this deal. So far, your daughter has demonstrated immature thinking and life skills. She’s stuck on foreign guys.
My theory comes into effect at this point...Stanley, the mother, ends up doing some type of legal paperwork....to effectively give up her citizenship and the kid’s. Whether totally legal or not....doesn’t matter.
The nutty daughter and her kid go off to Indonesia. The kid doesn’t fit...he doesn’t adapt....so after five years....she dumps the kid back on Grandma in Hawaii. At this point, Grandma starts to clean up the mess that the daughter made...with legal documents. She refixes the citizenship business...whether legal or not....doesn’t matter.
So this kid goes by his Indonesian name for an extended period of time. One can only guess that he really came to hate his Indonesian step-father. You don’t hear a word about the guy today. Eventually, he dumps that name and goes to Obama.
The kid really never connects back to his mother...no reason to. She was a lousy mother, and the Grandmother was the only one who made any real effort with the kid. When he comes to write a book....you end with some biographical book which you’d expect out of a guy in his mid-50s....but he’s only in his mid-30s. Some Kenyan father that he never really connected with...is the driving force of the book.
This is a comedy of sorts...without a 4-star birth certificate angle....just some lousy mother who made bad choice after bad choice. Somewhere in the midst of this...is some paperwork that the mother likely started to dump citizenship and the paperwork that the grandmother did to regain citizenship.
You left out “Frank” the black marxist pedophile who had an affair with an unnamed 13 yr old girl- the one who took nude photos of Stanley Dunham- the one who who moved to Hawaii before the Dunhams packed up and went too - the “Frank” who crazy Grandpa Stan Dunham chose as a “mentor” for lil Barry... the men who used to go drink whiskey and cruise the redlight district with the kid along long... the kid who felt “Frank” always looked at him like there was some mystery the kid didn’t get....the kid who wrote about matching stains on his pants and Frank’s
And because Grandma cleaned up the mess, she conveniently dies the night before the election...
I think I agree with your scenario. This is what he’s hiding.
“Lets sum up some facts. You are the mother of some 17-year old girl who is a nutcase”
I understand that Stanley Ann’s parents where also radical (communists?) so I don’t think they necessarily thought there was anything “wrong” with Stanley Ann.