Brenda Ann wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Michael "I'm a college professor with a PhD" wrote:

On Jan 2, 8:24�pm, John Smith wrote:
ka6uup wrote:

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His Mother is/was an American citizen. Therefore he is an American
citizen no matter where he was born

And, since his grandmother was the only one, to my knowledge, to make
any sort of statement which would call his citizenship into question,
and further, seeing how she died so shortly after his visit to her, I
would think only the amount of logic necessary to draw his citizenship
to scrutiny need be applied to argue a nice conspiracy theory here!
Yanno', the coincidence of her dying and eliminating the only
eyewitness
... grin

Regards,
JS

The grandmother making the statements that he was born in Kenya was
his father's mother, who is still alive in Kenya. I think she simply
wants to remind people of his Kenyan roots. The fact that birth
announcements from back then were published in Hawaiin newspapers is a
pretty good sign he was born in the US.

But, in reality, Barry's mother 'could' have given birth in Kenya and then
returned to the US and had the announcement placed in "Hawaiin"
newspapers, Mr.
PhD.

Even had she done so, he would still be a natural born US citizen by virtue
of his mother being an American.

I don't think that's exactly the way it works. Yes, he might be (or become) a US
citizen, however, if he was *born* in Kenya it would not satisfy the
requirement. There are exceptions of course in that folks can be born overseas
on US bases that would satisfy the requirement. One could (or can be) born on a
US military ship and be considered a natural born US citizen as such ship is
considered to be merely an extension of US territory.

Aside from that, she may have been able to
get the paper to post that he was born in Hawaii, but I doubt she could have
talked the hospital or the clerk into issuing a Hawaiian birth certificate.

While I've not seen a copy of the announcement, I seem to recall hearing that no
mention was made in said announcement as to where the birth took place.

In the paper, I suppose, one could merely announce that "Mr. and Mrs. XYZ would
like to announce the birth of a son, 'BongoDrum', on April 1st".

Who knows exactly what the certificate says? Last I heard, those records were
sealed.

I'm not pro or con to the theories, just trying to figure out what the 'reality'
may or may not be.