Thank you for the ping. For some reason, it prompted me to look for the first time at your profile page. After reading that very brief acct, mere verbal thanks hardly seem sufficient. I will say it anyway: thank you, thank you for your service.
I also want to add this: you are the classiest poster I have encountered anywhere online. I use the term ‘classy’ for want of a better one. What I mean is that you consistently embody honor and integrity in what you say and how you say it. When I spot your screenname, I know the post will be well worth reading...and it always is.
As for Obama, I have come to the firm conclusion that his autobiographical blurb, on file and updated for 13 yrs w his literary agency, is the key to the entire conundrum. He could not and did not lie about his country of origin in 1980. Back then the truth was still accessible, and the ever-ignorant Obama didn’t know enough to hide it. He told the agency he was born in Kenya because he was, and they could independently check that fact easily enough. It wasn’t until much later that the records were scrubbed or sealed to the full extent possible and the truth obscured. Fortunately copies of the Dystel & Goderich bio came to light, and the truth was preserved for all to see.
For anyone who missed it, here is the official Obama bio from 1991:
“Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.”
"Back then the truth was still accessible, and the ever-ignorant Obama didn’t know enough to hide it. He told the agency he was born in Kenya because he was, and they could independently check that fact easily enough.
Indeed. And that could still be the case, even if "Obama" was a convenient name to append to the unexpected complication produced by an underage daughter knocked up by the grandfather's card-playing buddy and noted communist, FMD.
