I’m trying to get inside Ann/Stanley’s mom’s head. Why would she announce grandson Barack’s birth in the Hawaii newspaper? Was she trying to legitimize and Americanize it in some way? That’s assuming she adhered to early 1960s mores which, although inching toward liberal, were still often quite traditional. I graduated from a public high school in Orlando in 1969, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy was still a hushed, shameful event. I wonder what her parents thought about her global cavorting and loose lifestyle?
I’m trying to get inside Ann/Stanley’s mom’s head. Why would she announce grandson Barack’s birth in the Hawaii newspaper? Was she trying to legitimize and Americanize it in some way? That’s assuming she adhered to early 1960s mores which, although inching toward liberal, were still often quite traditional. I graduated from a public high school in Orlando in 1969, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy was still a hushed, shameful event. I wonder what her parents thought about her global cavorting and loose lifestyle?
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The bigger question is why wasn’t the announcement for the Nordyke twins, born on the same day, in any of the papers in Hawaii. Microfilm was checked for a month after and there was nothing. Why was the address in the birth announcement fake? If these are automatically generated by the hospital and sent to the papers, why were the Nordyke twins missing? Perhaps the microfilm was tampered with and the Nordyke’s were removed and Obama inserted. Of course if someone has managed to locate an actual newspaper from that date and the Nordyke’s is there, but Obama’s is not, then someone committed a crime and a cover up, right?
You would be amazed at how many people save newspapers for one reason or another and next thing you know, they are up in their attic or garage looking for that birth announcement so they can save it. :P
Stanley seems to have been the flaming radical of the two. “Toot” seems to have been more conventional. Banker and all, you know.