[David]

As I stated in a previous post, that filing date is not a smoking gun. My own birth was such and such a day and the filing date was 14 days later. That would all depend on when all the information got to the vital statistics office. Mail usually takes several days. They would then put the date they received it as the filing date.

I knew you said that and I thought I responded but I guess I didn't.

I went back and looked. All the samples that were "date filed" were all filed on the birth date except for Obama. All the samples that were "date accepted" were accepted a week or so later.

That doesn't make a rule either. So for all we know, your view might well be correct--it just sat on somebody's desk. And obviously, the further back you put it toward August 4, the more difficult it is to see mother getting him back from Kenya in time to file it.

I have also considered the possibility that when Stanley Ann doesn't make the plane, she calls her mother. "Mom, we have this problem if the kid drops out here in Kenya--how about his citizenship? Mom, I'll call you when he is born; maybe you go down to the Health Department the day after and file an affidavit of home birth?" Or maybe it works the other way--mom is thinking even when Ann is not.

[Jim Noble]

I have also considered the possibility that when Stanley Ann doesn't make the plane, she calls her mother. "Mom, we have this problem if the kid drops out here in Kenya--how about his citizenship?

Ridiculous.

Mercer Island High School going, Russian studying, getting knocked up at 17 by Africans, commie parent-descended citizens of the world in 1961 didn't give two sh*ts about American citizenship.

That would have been the farthest thing from that little premature moonbat's mind.