Are you arguing from the above passage that SAD did live at that address when she gave birth? If so, what in particular that Maraniss said leads you to that conclusion? He actually says just the opposite.
As to Maraniss “implying” SAD and the baby lived at Punahou, that is simply a reading comprehension issue. Maraniss implies no such thing.
Listen, Obama-apologist: here is the fact. Nowhere apart from the disputed BC is that house identified as Obama’s birth house. Go to your favorite search engine. Type in ‘birth house’ for Bush, Clinton, Carter, Reagan, etc. In each case, up pop multiple images of the house in which each one’s mother lived at the time of birth.
Now do the same for Obama. Images of the house cited on the BC do NOT pop up. Nor is there a plaque outside that house listing it as Obama’s birth house. Tourists do not pull over next to the house and take pics, so they can show friends and relatives that they personally viewed the house Obama’s mother was living in when she gave birth.
You have no evidence to bolster your case: none. You simply make yourself look foolish by insisting, sans facts and evidence, that this is the actual birth address.
Perhaps you need to contact the HI tourism bureau, and tell them you have identified the house in which SAD was living when she gave birth. Then they can add that ‘fact’ to their guidebooks, and direct tourists to the location.
Oh wait; you can’t do that. You have ZERO evidence.
No, I’m arguing that your statement
“Nowhere does Maraniss say that Cindy Pratt is his lone source. At one point he does mention that Cindy had no recollection of a baby coming into the home. It is a separate passage, however, in which he states SAD and the baby never lived there. In that passage he does not mention Cindy.”
is not accurate unless you are talking about another passage somewhere in his book. Are you? He certainly names no other sources in that passage or in the reference list other than Cindy Pratt.
I looked for President Bush’s birth house but found no images. Oh, well.
I don’t know if there is a plaque in front of 6085 address or if tourist driveby it. Frankly if I’m visiting Hawaii that would be extremely low on my to do list. Maybe you live across the street and therefore have first hand information. Do you?