http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87233
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However, Nelson told WND today, “I don’t know in what capacity [West] knew about this particular birth.”
She said the birth and the unusual names arose in a conversation with West, a leader in the development of obstetrics services throughout Hawaii before Obama was born.
However, she said the assumption that West delivered the baby, or that she said that, were just wrong.
“Being one of the leaders in obstetrics in Hawaii, he could have had physical or informational access to all of the obstetrics [on the islands],” she told WND.
The discussion centered on the “peculiarity of a woman named Stanley,” she said.
“I just said tell me something [that has happened],” she said. “And he says Stanley had a baby, and that’s something to write home about.”
He also told her the father was the first African student at the University of Hawaii, “another interesting local thing,” Nelson told WND.
“[West] never said to me, ‘I delivered a baby,’” Nelson said.
She said she then recalled the name and circumstances 10 years later when the baby’s father, now an official in Kenya, returned to Hawaii to speak.
Nelson told WND “to those of us from Hawaii,” there aren’t any questions or issues about Obama’s birth.
“Hawaii is knee-deep in people who know the whole Obama history,” she said.
A blogger at ObamaCitizenshipFacts.org pointed out that West could not possibly have delivered Obama since, according to a Hawaiian Pearl Harbor history website, he retired in 1956, five years before Obama’s birth. “December of l956, after delivering at least 5,000 babies ... he retired from the practice of medicine,” said the Pearl Harbor Survivors Project website.
“Hope this is helpful in squelching another convenient remembered memory put out there by the O-Bot crowd to try and substantiate his birth in Hawaii without showing an ‘original, long-form, birth certificate known as a CERTIFICATE of Live Birth,’ not the phony image of the ‘CERTIFICATION of Live Birth’ computer form he has been touting as proof,” the blogger wrote.
Nelson confirmed that West, who died only months ago, spent a great deal of his life in medical management, working with the major obstetrics providers in Hawaii, serving the American Medical Association in the state and directing one of the obstetrics clinics.
Nelson said she was “appalled” at being caught up in the arguments over Obama’s birth.
“All I have was a very nice, wholesome story,” she said.
http://www.buffalonews.com/2009/01/20/554495/teacher-from-kenmore-recalls-obama.html
The original interview with Barbra Nelson by the BUFFALO NEWS has been removed.
“Story” indeed.
Fiction, just like her “recollection” of “graceful” 0bama the basketball star.
“Hawaii is knee-deep in people who know the whole Obama history,” she said.
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and spent part of his early childhood years here.
But during an interview with Tom Brokaw Thursday, Governor Linda Lingle said that doesn’t mean that everyone in the state is familiar with him, or his policies.
BROKAW: You’re running against Barack Obama who has real roots in Hawaii, spent his summer break there. His granny is there. It’s going to be tougher for the Republicans isn’t it?
LINGLE: It will be tougher. Hawaii is a small state, they are very proud of anyone from home that does well, but honestly Tom, not too many people in Hawaii had heard of Barack Obama until he ran for president. Because as you know, as he was born there, he spent a very few years in school but they are very partial to people who were born in our home state. However, Senator McCain has tremendous ties to Hawaii. His father headed Pacific Command and of course Senator McCain met his wife Cindy on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii...
In her own interview Tuesday with FCN, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said she found that amusing on more than one level—including the fact that Obama never voted in Hawaii, never owned a business there, but spent time in school there.
“Most people in Hawaii had never heard of him until he ran for president, so I was amused on that level,” she said
“Abercrombie to Lingle: don’t disparage Obama’s Hawaii ties” (October 18, 2008
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/story.asp?S=8955821