OK, who are we to believe? Obama himself or his step-grandmother? Maybe both dads were furious for different reasons. Or maybe each side of the story has painted in the most favorable light.
Regardless of whether both, neither, or only one of the accounts is true, notice that Sarah alludes to LETTERS from Senior pleading for help. She in no way says Senior fled with his new wife to Africa to seek refuge from the wrath of Ann’s father about the marriage.
Thus, I view this account as indirect confirmatory evidence that Senior must have been in Hawaii—not Africa—during the period Feb. through July 1961. Once Ann’s pregnancy became obvious (it’s not clear when either set of parents were made aware of this), any concerns about marriage presumably were displaced by much more immediate and practical concerns.
ALMOST Bingo.
It indicates he wasn't in Kenya, but it doesn't demonstrate he was in Hawaii, either
It's interesting that this article dates back to when Obama was running for senator.
Since foreign birth does not impact one's ability to be a senator, there was no compelling reason to lie about his being born locally.
ASSUMING the allafrica.com archives haven't been altered, this is very strong evidence that we can put the out-of-Africa theory to rest.
Still doesn't rule out Canadian birth (Birth in Kenya or Canada would mean he would be a British subject, like his father). A Canadian birth would cover why the first reported itty-bitty baby Barak sighting was in Mercer Island, WA, and how that could be so soon after his birth that Susan Blake felt compelled to show Stanley Ann how to change a diaper.
Still, if there isn't a fatal flaw in his background, why take the legal and political risks of publishing such a poor copy of his BC?
Who knows. In my theory, they decide to get married; recognize that the marriage constitutes the crime of bigamy in the US; in the semester break in late January 1962, they fly to Kenya and get married. She gets along well with Sarah and moves in intending to stay until the time of the birth and then return; he returns to Honolulu because of his school obligations.
Probably there is merit in both stories; to some degree they may have been cooked up to support a fairy tale that gets the birth out of Kenya.