Had Little Barry been born in Hawaii, Stanley Ann would not have instantly jetted off to Seattle. The expense was enormous, and back in the early days her parents weren’t awash in money.
Plus what reason would SAD have had to leave her school, her home and her family and move to a city where she knew no one? The best Maraniss can do is float a theory of domestic abuse. But if the pair never lived together, how would that work? Would O Sr periodically force his way into the Kalanianaole Highway address, and beat SAD to a pulp? Or would he stalk her at UoH, and beat her right there in the university?
Stanley Ann almost certainly had Little Barry in a home for unwed mothers. In Vancouver. She was supposed to give the baby up, but impulsively opted to keep him. She didn’t take the newborn on an unnecessary, nearly 1,500 mile flight. She just drove across the border and registered at UoW.
Any other scenario is unlikely at best. The above is the only one that fits all the known facts.
“Had Little Barry been born in Hawaii, Stanley Ann would not have instantly jetted off to Seattle. The expense was enormous, and back in the early days her parents weren’t awash in money.”
I can imagine a number of scenarios where people with money might want to pay to have Ann’s mixed-race baby flown out of Hawaii ASAP. The family moved to HI from the Seattle area where Ann knew people.
Frank M. Davis might want to hide his paternity.
The folks invested in Obama Sr’s future as a Kenyan politician on discovering his bigamous marriage might have panicked.
Ann’s parent could easily have dipped into savings, for all we know, or called on the relatives in Kansas to protect mom’s career path to bank vice president or pop’s position as a KGB operative working with Obama Sr. He was a pal of KGB operative Frank Davis and pop had a big FBI file.