Thanks, Mark. I thought I had already gone on way too long to get into another technical legal issue, but I should have been more precise. As I understand it, Obama’s “Kenyan” citizenship (which really is the Brit-lite citizenship you are talking about) is a result of Britain’s Nationality Act of 1948. Technically speaking, Barack Obama Sr. was a British overseas subject resident of what was then the Kenyan protectorate, which status passed automatically (by operation of Kenyan law) into Kenyan citizenship when Kenya became independent in late 1963. If one in this situation is deemed a Brit/Kenyan citizen automatically because his father is a Kenyan, the (now) Kenyan citizenship lapses unless one does something affirmative to claim it. I am no expert in this area, but that’s what I think the law is.