Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)

Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

[SE Mom]

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

[STARWISE]

Don't forget .... that photo states it was when she was in Bali - Tahana .. in the 1990's. 1990 was the year 0 and MO supposedly decamped to Bali for a few months, so he could be supposedly be undistracted enough to complete "Dreams", for which he had been paid an advance, but didn't complete in accordance with the publisher's contractual deadlines. They (Jane Dystel) somehow got the publisher to give him a 2nd chance extension.

Who knows .. Mama could've helped/done some of the writing .. after all, she was an eternal student and was a teacher in Indonesia.

**Enlarging photos for detail

.."Ann Dunham at Tanaha, Bali 1990s"

I also think that's her little toe .. my toe would stick out of some sandals like that in hot weather, too.

This photo is titled from Bali, as well.

Check that little toe. When I wore sandals like that in the hot summer, the longer I wore them, the more the strips of leather or whatever would stretch as my feet sweated, and that one toe would slip out constantly.

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Anthropologist Remembers President Obama’s Mother
Posted on August 11, 2009 by Sean

New York Times op-ed contributor and anthropologist Michael R. Dove has been featured in today’s NY Times issue: Dreams From His Mother.

His piece is a brief memoir about his friend and colleague Ann Dunham Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama, and the focus of her anthropological work in Indonesia.

Dove writes:

Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from us behave according to systems of logic, and that these systems can be grasped if we approach them with the sort of patience and respect that Dr. Soetoro practiced in her work.

Dr. Dove is a professor of Social Ecology and Anthropology at Yale University as well as the Curator of Anthropology at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Additionally, there will be an invited roundtable session at the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting in honor of Ann Dunham Soetoro. Participants will discuss her legacy in Anthropology, Indonesian scholarship, and the Presidency of Barack Obama.

More on Ann Dunham Soetoro:

* Obama’s Mother – An Unconventional Life (SF Gate)
* The Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (TIME)
* Obama Drive Gets Inspiration from his White Mom Born in Kansas (Bloomberg)

Update (8/18/2009): Dr. Steve Ferzacca (see comments below) kindly provided us with a photo of his encounter with Dr. Soetoro.

Steve Ferzacca with Ann Dunham Soetoro

[STARWISE]

Found this pic I've never seen HERE

[Fred Nerks]

This has been posted before in a smaller version, supposedly of Stanley Ann, Maya and 0.

Care to tell me how to make enlargements like that? It never works for me...

[STARWISE]

You just add the height and width dimensions
after the picture url ..

I.E.,

< img src=” .. url ...”height=”444”width=”288”</a>

[maggief]

http://blog.aaanet.org/2009/08/11/anthropologist-remembers-president-obamas-mother/

Steve Ferzacca, on August 17th, 2009 at 11:49 pm Said:

It was 1983, myself and a friend were traveling in Indonesia. We were both anthropology students — I was an undergraduate at the time at the University of Arizona and my friend was off to USC as a graduate student in their inaugural year of their program in visual anthropology. We had just finished a particularly long stretch of travel from Bali through Java. Next on the list of people we had arranged to visit before we left was Ann Soetero at the Ford Foundation in Jakarta. Both of us were ragged from travel and my friend was experiencing an existential crisis, questioning the depth of her commitment to anthropology. Ann quickly sensed our tired despair, and lit up her office with her big hair and big personality. She gave us her afternoon to not only cheer us up, freshen us up with cold drinks and American sensibility, but revitalize the wonder in us for anthropology. She talked of her projects, the microcredit project with Indonesian women, the attempts at unionizing labor, the need to understand a person’s life from close up. She conjured forth the spirit of the work that is anthropology, and then sent us on our way with smiles on our face and new energy in our hearts. Several years later I ran into her again at the University of Hawaii — I was studying Indonesian now as a University of Wisconsin graduate student. I thanked her for that afternoon in Jakarta — she said she remembered us well. Didn’t matter really — her gift given far enough away in time and space had been put to some use. She spoke to me of her difficulties finishing her dissertation between making a living and raising a son. Once again I appreciated her openness and willingness to give something of herself even if there was nothing I could do in return. I don’t know — it seems like I see this in her son as well.

[STARWISE]

Yeah .. her son’s sure giving ... misery,
distrust and malevolence.

[maggief]

Food for thought ...

It was 1983 ... We had just finished a particularly long stretch of travel from Bali through Java. Next on the list of people we had arranged to visit before we left was Ann Soetero at the Ford Foundation in Jakarta ...

[Jedidah]

If I’m reading this right, this is another case where the numbers don’t fit the narrative.

In 1983, Barry would have been, according to his stated 1961 birthdate, 22 years old and on the mainland. “Several years later” (the words used in the quote), he would have been in his mid-twenties. So I don’t understand Ann’s “difficulties finishing her dissertation between making a living and raising a son. . .” at that time.

She doesn’t appear to have been around much during his “raising” years. And it doesn’t make sense to claim that she was still rearing him in adulthood.

[STARWISE]

Maggie’s reference is to the fellow
anthropologists who were traveling thru
the area and met with Dunham.

[STARWISE]

Not sure if this pic's been posted .. Punohou School

I'm thinking the 1st and 6th girls from the left might be the Nordyke twins.

[April Lexington]

Idahnoh... little toe notwithstanding... she sure looks alot like Mama Cass Elliot to me...

[STARWISE]

LOL ..

[Fred Nerks]

She spoke to me of her difficulties finishing her dissertation between making a living and raising a son. Once again I appreciated her openness and willingness to give something of herself even if there was nothing I could do in return. I don’t know — it seems like I see this in her son as well.

whata load of tripe from an obvious obamabot, meanwhile, in Hawaii, people who knew Madelyn tell of how the two children, Maya and zero, would sit in the bank and wait for her to finish work, doing their homework. That selfish Stanley Ann never 'raised' anyone...other than her own profile. Soon we'll have a Stanley Ann Park in Hawaii and a statue of her, for the pidgeons to crap on.

[Jedidah]

Yes.

My post was referring to the rather odd comment by one of the traveling anthropologists that Ann “spoke to me of her difficulties finishing her dissertation between making a living and raising a son,” at a time after Barry 0 was already an adult and past the point of “raising.”

The dates/timeline never seem to mesh with known facts with this family.

[STARWISE]

Very true ...

[editor-surveyor]

Those first two pictures have been stretched vertically quite a bit, making them look about a foot taller than they are; tha last one looks ok.

[combat_boots]

Wouldn’t she have also been raising a daughter?

[STARWISE]

Yes .. I said I was enlarging them for detail.

[mojitojoe]

Who are those 2 kids in the center photo?