[chuckling sounds] Just as I suspected, if I left it vague, you'd grab for the wrong branch, showing you don't know the topic as well as you pretend.
Nope. It wasn't Maraniss. The piece I was referring to was Janny Scott's A Singular Woman. Here's one review found on the Amazon listing:
“The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates in her new biography A Singular Woman. . . . Scott [uses] meticulous reporting, archival research and extensive interviews with Dunham’s colleagues, friends and family, including the president and his sister. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who is both disciplined and disorganized, blunt-spoken and empathetic, driven and devoted to her children, even as she ruefully admits her failings and frets over her distance from them.”—The Washington Post
So, contrary to Birther lore, Stanley Ann wasn't just some prop piece brought in to further some screenplay life created for Obman, Jr. So, yes, the testimony from friends and family witnessing the mother-son relationship that you believe to be so mysteriously missing in fact exists.
But, in any event, in this nation one doesn't prove date and place of birth by chasing down from old friends and family and procuring statements they saw our mothers pregnant --and then handing those to the Drivers License office, passport agency, etc. One gets the appropriate state agency to verify the birth facts. Hawaii has done that in Obama's case. And in under our Constitution, those records are granted Full Faith & Credit as to any sister state.
On the question of eligibility, this is called "Game. Set. Match."
‘“The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates in her new biography A Singular Woman. . . . Scott [uses] meticulous reporting, archival research and extensive interviews with Dunham’s colleagues, friends and family, including the president and his sister. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who is both disciplined and disorganized, blunt-spoken and empathetic, driven and devoted to her children, even as she ruefully admits her failings and frets over her distance from them.”—The Washington Post’
This is pathetic, Hook, even for you. I said no one in all of HI saw Stanley Ann pregnant. You chuckle & present a quote that proves MY point, not yours. Scott didn’t talk to a single soul who mentioned knowing Stanley Ann when she lived for nine mos pregnant in HI—according to Obama, lived as a wife to a black man. But no one remembers.
Your sad, pointless, totally off-topic quote simply reinforces that. Scott, no more than Maraniss, discovered one solitary soul who knew Stanley Ann during the 9 mos of her pregnancy. She had no job, no landlord, no close neighbors, no friends, nothing.
Why, it’s as if she spent those nine mos on a completely different continent.
Okay, Hook, let’s talk Janny Scott:
“In the last year or so respected publishers have released four biographies by mainstream authors that feature, as a central fact, the birth of President Barack Obama to his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (Ann), in 1961.
Given that there has been a certain controversy about the birth, one might expect that each of the books would, if not settle the controversy, at least deal with it intelligently. None of them do.
These books include a 2010 biography of the president, “The Bridge,” by New Yorker editor, David Remnick; a 2011 biography of Dunham, “A Singular Woman,” by New York Times reporter Janny Scott; a 2011 biography of Barack Obama Sr., “The Other Barack,” by Sally Jacobs of the Boston Globe; and a 2010 multi-generational biography of the Obama family, “The Obamas,” by BBC journalist Peter Firstbrook.
Clearly, if Dunham had not given birth to Obama, none of these four books would have been written. Yet the authors are shockingly mute on the subject of Dunham’s pregnancy and Obama’s birth.
University of Hawaii records show that Dunham left school at the end of January in 1961, and subsequent divorce records suggest a Maui wedding on February 2. This is where the paper trial ends.
As to the Maui wedding, everyone writes with uncertainty. Jacobs says only, “The couple apparently had a quiet civil ceremony.” Scott writes that the wedding took place “*reportedly* on the island of Maui.” (Italics mine)
In Remnick’s account, Dunham tells no one about the wedding, but in Firstbrook’s imaginative account, the parents accompany the happy couple on the trip to Maui. As Obama has conceded, there are no wedding photos and no documents.
After the wedding, Dunham disappears from the record. Not one of these authors provides the slightest hint of what she may have done or where she may have gone between February 2 and August 4 of 1961. Nada. Not a word.
All of these books were published with the eligibility controversy in full flower. The informed reader would expect the authors, especially Dunham’s biographer Scott, to at least comment on the absence of information. None do.”
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http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/the_hole.htm