You show a lack of imagination that belies your screen name. I separated with (and eventually divorced) my son's mother and we both moved to new houses, but I continued to live in the same town and had regular contact with my son. He would not have said that I "left the family." But if I moved thousands of miles away and ceased to have contact except for phone calls and letters--and we don't know if Obama Sr. kept up contact even that much--then my son might say I left the family. You don't have to live together to be part of the family, in a child's mind.
There’s no indication that Obama Sr had anything to do with baby Obama. If you have any info, kindly share it. If not, then enough with the verbal gymnastics. There is a limit to which you Obama-defenders can stretch the English language in your attempts to cover for the Liar. He said when he was two that Obama “left the family”. In his book [I haven’t read it, but I read a detailed friendly review which specifically covered this point] Obama suggests O Sr ‘left’ because he wanted to go to Harvard & Harvard’s scholarship wasn’t sufficient to support a wife & child. (I.e.: Sr didn’t leave to go to Kenya; he left to go to Harvard. That is in Dreams.) It was all a pack of lies; Stanley Ann & O Jr were in Seattle at the time. Anyone can put all this together for themselves, after five minutes of reading up on the subject. It’s been well researched.
Post 143 should have been directed to you. But perhaps that’s obvious?
[David Maraniss is, btw, a big liberal. He tries to protect Obama throughout his bio, but fails miserably a time or two. The birth narrative is one of them.]
June 22, 2012
Maraniss Bio Deepens Obama Birth Mystery
By Jack Cashill
David Maraniss has no use for “birthers.” In a recent interview, he dismissed their beliefs as “preposterous” and wonders why they cling to them, since “every fact and document leads in another direction.”
Yet the one core belief that has united the birther community — if there be such a thing — is that Obama dissembled when he talked at both the 2004 and 2008 Democratic Conventions about his parents’ “improbable love” and “abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.”
Birthers have known for years that there was no Obama family, that the couple never lived together, that Obama campaigned on a lie, and that the major media covered for him every step of the way. This, ironically, Maraniss confirms in Barack Obama: The Story, a book that has to be parsed as carefully as the Talmud or Finnegan’s Wake to be made sense of. Despite his slam on birthers, the facts herein will come as more of a shock to the Obama faithful than to those who have questioned the official birth narrative.
“In the college life of Barack Obama [Senior] in 1961 and 1962,” writes Maraniss, “as recounted by his friends and acquaintances in Honolulu, there was no Ann; there was no baby.” Although Maraniss talked to many of Obama Sr.’s friends, none of the credible ones ever so much as saw him with Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham.
One Obama friend, a Cambodian named Kiri Tith, knew the senior Obama “very well.” He had also met Ann through a different channel. “But he had no idea,” writes Maraniss, “that Ann knew Obama, let alone got hapai (pregnant) by him, married him, and had a son with him.”
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:All the stranger, then, is [Maraniss’] failure to provide a single shred of information regarding the circumstances surrounding Obama’s birth. The reader has no idea who took Ann to the hospital, who delivered her baby, who took her home, or even where “home” was.
Maraniss hints at where home was not — namely, the residence her parents shared with the Pratt family at 6085 Kalanianole Highway, the address listed on the birth certificate. As Maraniss relates, the Pratt daughter, then an adolescent, “has no memory of the Dunhams’ daughter bringing an infant home.” He adds, “[Ann] and Obama and the infant never lived [at 6085 Kalanianole].”
Indeed, the young family never lived together, and this Maraniss concedes. “Within a month of the day Barry came home from the hospital,” he writes, “he and his mother were long gone from Honolulu, back on the mainland ... .” They had decamped for Seattle, where they would live for the next year.
Maraniss interviewed not a single person who saw the newborn in Hawaii. It is likely that Obama Sr. never saw young Barry. Barry Obama’s first sighting was in Seattle. Maraniss tells us nothing about how Ann and the baby got there.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/maraniss_bio_deepens_obama_birth_mystery.html