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THAT’S WHY Stanley had to give birth in Kenya - because the airlines WOULD NOT allow her to fly home so close to her due date.

Here's a theory...

They intended to fly back to Hawaii for Ann to give birth, but waited too late. Too close to her due date, the airline wouldn't let her fly. So they decided to return to Hawaii by ship, which means they'd have to go to a port city. When they reached Mombasa, Ann went into labor early and had to be admitted to a hospital there.

(I started reading this thread yesterday when there were only 51 posts. What with work, sleep, and laundry, I haven't caught up yet!)

Good points...

We dont know when she and Obama Sr actually went to Kenya...

They were “married” in February, supposedly in Hawaii...

She was 3 months pregnant...a new bride who had not yet met her in laws...

Did they go to Kenya during the summer, when Obama Sr had no classes ???

He came back and went to the mainland for graduate school...

She did not mention him to friends...

he never mentioned her to friends either while they dated or after they were “married” or her or the baby had been born...

He never showed his son off to his friends in Hawaii or passed out cigars

Strange behavior for an American father, bizarre for a Moslem...

was the intention to stay in Kenya for the birth or to come back and they dilly dallied until she could not fly ???

They may have gone by boat too...common still in 1961..

But for her to get back to Washington state so soon, she must have flown..

Why go to Washington state by herself and without Obama Sr ???

You may be right about the unplanned birth in Kenya, because it appears she paniced and called her Mom who instead of telling the Hawaii registrar that Obama Jr had been born in Kenya, lied instead and gave a phony address..

This was not a feeble old lady who made a mistake...

Madelyn was about 40 and a bank president at the time...

and had friends in the govt offices where it mattered..

Reading reading reading about Stanley Dunham, even obama’s own (disturbingly contemptuous) words from his own book

she was a naive idealist who thought Obama Sr’s African family would embrace her liberal white anti-American revolutionary self with open arms ... kumbaya

I think she intended to go native and deliver in Kenya- when she recognized he was a bigamist and his family hated her white guts and would never accept her, and that being a minor African “wife" to a muslim in a polygamous marriage and in a culture where men were freely accepted to bang anyone they looked at... was not so glamorous after all..the "emotional cruelty" of her "marriage" began when she landed in Kenya and found out she was nothing but a minor trophy

She tried to get home to Mama - but being heavily preggers, instead got to a Brit-run colonial hospital and then back to Hawaii (or Seattle?) as fast as she could

Then Granny Madelyn tried to erase the Kenyan episode and assure the kid would get citizen benefits with a fake COLB registration... and even though through 1962 "Anna Obama" kept telling her friends O Sr was going to come for her and the baby... and tried to follow him to Harvard- he never came back or even acknowledged her until she ambushed him at Honolulu airport- O's only picture with his Royal African "father"