This makes ZERO sense.
If he was adopted in 1970 and his name changed to Barry Soetoro, how could his name have been Barry Soetro when he was born?
Exactly! This blog post is completely stupid. If his name was Barack Obama at birth, his original birth certificate would not say Barry Soetero under any circumstances.
I’ve done a few step parent adoptions and also we have an adopted daughter. Her birth certificate shows me and Mr. Mercat as her parents. There’s no mention of her birth parents or of her having been adopted. And her name is A.I. Mercat (not really but you get the drift) with no mention of her birth name. And since Mr. Mercat and I were not anywhere near her birthplace which is still accurate, its a bit weird but there it is.
Friends of mine just adopted their niece and nephew. They were told that the kids (teens) could change their names if they wanted to, because new birth certificates were being printed. So the kids changed their names (they were named after relatives they didn’t like). So now we call the kids different names than last month, and their birth certificates show those names as if they were born with them.
IF he had an original birth certificate (doubtful) then it would be amended to reflect the name change. But here's the thing...under Hawaii state law it would have to have "Amended" stamped in big letters for all to see.
But I don't think there was an original. Where ever he was born I think they took advantage of Hawaii's rather liberal laws at the time and wanted Obama to have US citizenship so they claimed he was born in Hawaii and provided apparently sufficient "evidence" of this and thus the state of Hawaii has deemed that he was born in Hawaii in spite of there being no birth certificate.
Upon adoption by Lolo the Indonesian, the young fellow's Birth Certificate would have been amended to reflect the legal name change to Barry Soetoro.
What these folks are attempting to explain (I tink) is that after the legal name change to Barry Soetoro, the POTUS never LEGALLY changed it back. Ergo, his legal name is still Barry Soetoro.
An aside: Occidental College knew him as Barak Hussein Obama, they said.
Aside #2: Barry/Barak did not see fit to let the Illinois Bar know that he had been known by another name (an alias) or had a drug history, or unpaid traffic violations, That is, to use legal terminology, a Super Double Probation No-No, Boo-Boo Extremus U Outa Here violation of the Canon of Ethics.
In fact, our POTUS is no longer a member of the Illinois Bar under Super Triple Probation Secret Sanctions of Some Mysterious Sort Never to be Explained to the Likes of Us. And, neither is his wife, the demure and petite Michelle.
How did I do with the legal speak? Nuthin' to it.