I wonder if perhaps "where" Barack Obama was born isn't the issue. Perhaps he was born in Hawaii but claimed to be foreign-born in order to gain financial aid for his extensive post-secondary education.
A kid from Hawaii is one thing, a kid from Kenya who grew up in Indonesia is quite another - that's someone a college or university would see as a valuable addition to their cultural diversity. Such valuable addition students often get special financial aid and admissions preference, a bias his academically trained mother would have fully understood.
That would mean the awkward thing at this point in his life is covering up his earlier dishonesty. Something we learned from Watergate, the coverup is almost always worse than the original misstep. Here is a PJ Media column by Roger L. Simon who reaches essentially the same conclusion.
