I wonder if anyone else was there in February, 2007 and heard him describe his birth at Queen’s or did this reporter get a private interview with him in which he described it?
I don't know. But UPI retracted it after I think WND.com had an article about Obama being born in 2 different hospitals.
Beckwith doesn't buy it:
"Until June 7th, even United Press International (UPI) and Snopes.com contained statements that Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Here is a screen capture from Snopes.com that says, "Barack Hussein Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center." Today, Snopes.com claims that "Barack Hussein Obama, was born on 4 August 1961 at the Kapiolani Medical Center." Snopes claims they made the change because Wikipedia made the change.
Here is the UPI screen capture that claims Obama was born at Queens -- but now the UPI claims Kapiolani. Remember, Obama, himself, told UPI that he was born at Queens."
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“I wonder if anyone else was there in February, 2007 and heard him describe his birth at Queen’s or did this reporter get a private interview with him in which he described it?”
The speech is available online: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/10/AR2007021000879.html .
There are only two actual quotes in the UPI article, and neither appear in the February 2007 speech cited. The “boil the hope out” comment DOES crop up in a couple of February 2008 speeches, so it could’ve been a mistake by the writer.
Which wouldn’t be terribly surprising, because the UPI writer made *several* factual errors, not just the reference to Queen’s. And the writer is horribly unclear throughout the piece as to whether he’s referencing speeches from February 2007 or November 2008 or some other time. As for specific mistakes:
“His best-selling third book was called “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.””
That was his second book. Obama has not written a third book.
“He said his late mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died of cancer at 53,”
She died at 52.
“and his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, 86,”
She was also dead. And she was only 86 for a week or two before she died.
“That fall he won his Senate seat with more than 70 percent of the vote.”
He won slightly less than 70% of the vote, not more than 70%.
“They married in 1992 and have two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7.”
Daughter Malia was 10 when this article was written, not 9.
