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To: ameagle
Susan Blake is careful to get the "1961" date right out first. The "August" reference comes out more naturally in the flow of her recollection. Cute.

A prepped witness?

And speaking of coming out more naturally, how is it that a few WEEKS after Obama is born that "Stanley" (Susan uses Stanley rather than Ann for Obama's mother's name) does not yet know how to change a diaper? I remember diapering my own kids one or two days after their birth.

1,881 posted on 07/06/2008 1:43:58 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw
Sounds a little rehearsed...Here's another article where they say per Susan Blake, that Stanley stopped in Seattle with BHO on her way to meet BHO Sr in Harvard.

Blake recalls keeping in touch by mail. “She said she was in love with an African exchange student from Kenya, and in spring wrote to say she was marrying him, (the senior) Barack Obama. ... One day, after ‘Barry’ was born, she came for an afternoon, (on her way from Hawaii to join her husband at Harvard.)” Blake remembers “the infant. He was sweet and pink and very new.” The two talked and cuddled the baby. “And I changed Barack Obama’s diapers.”

http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/01/14/tidbits2.html

Which doesn't make sense because he didn't graduate until 1962.

According to a letter on file in the Mboya papers at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, “most” of Obama Sr.’s early expenses in the United States were covered by an international literacy expert named Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who had traveled widely in Kenya. Kirk wrote to Mboya in May 1962 to request additional funds to “sponsor Barack Obama for graduate study, preferably at Harvard.” She said she would “like to do more” to assist the young man but had two stepchildren ready for college.

1,924 posted on 07/06/2008 3:23:14 PM PDT by ameagle
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