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Seriously? YOU’RE not paying attention, LorenC. AND I DIDN’T MOVE ANY GOALPOSTS. It was Eva who said that; I quoted Eva. I never said that he NEVER used the name prior to 1981. I pointed out that perhaps this is why you don’t SEE captions that are claimed to be on photos or in yearbooks. Then I asked if anyone has SEEN an actual yearbook.

So you come up with cropped, photoshopped pages in a news story from some obscure online paper, allegedly from a yearbook; but they would be far more convincing if they were photos of ACTUAL PAGES from the yearbooks, with CONTEXT.

I know it’s the same school. I never said it wasn’t. I said I was expecting the high school yearbook because I specifically talked about the “hoops” photo that’s all over the place, allegedly from his high school years; but again, no photo of the entire page from that supposed yearbook.

I re-read the story and now see that Lynne didn’t start late. She said she was at the school for 12 years. I assume she began in 1st grade. Interesting that the story doesn’t specifically say that Lynne was the classmate who shared these photos. It’s implied by the headline, but it’s not in the photo captions. Nobody wants their name on them, apparently.

Isn’t it odd that this photo that was supposed to be in German newspapers, of the fifth grade class, showing what all classmates are up to now, isn’t on the Web? If it is, please supply a link. Google doesn’t find it. But then again, Google likes to hide things.

Then I asked if anyone has SEEN an actual yearbook.

Well whaddya know:

Obama in '73

When I was home in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago I decided to dig through the boxes in my mom's garage and find some of my old Na Opios (the lower school yearbook at Punahou School). I was looking for a picture of one of the big kids, three years ahead of me at a school named Barry Obama, now more commonly referred to as Barack. For reference, in 1973 Barry was a big 6th grader and I was just a little 3rd grader.
Here is the picture I found (I blurred out the other non-public figures) apparently taken at a pencil chewers convention -- the Na Opio never featured stiff formal portraits:

So there ya go. Someone has seen a yearbook. With his own eyes. His own personal copy. Way back in 2007. He did a scan of a decent portion of a page, not just the immediate photo. And it shows Obama using the name 'Obama' in 1973.