It’s possible that she left for Kenya not intending to give birth there but merely for the exotic, seeing the country of her impregnator’s origin etc. Then, as some of the stories have it, she waited too long (why?) to return and was not permitted to fly. That meant that she had to ask her mother to get do the Hawaii stuff in order to secure citizenship for the boy—but nothing beyond that. The birth announcements could be more the desire of her mother, though the false address seems odd, still, might have been to cover up the (to the mother) scandal of an mother impregnated by a Kenyan giving birth in Kenya.
Yeah, it’s all speculation.
I've heard others suggest that she was a communist sex operative. Maybe she was over there doing her thing..
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“We all converged on Honolulu a month after he was born there (no, not in a manger!) and knew—well or in passing—his father, though most of us then had no idea there was a baby.”
Interesting that the writer makes a big deal back in 6/08 to make sure everyone knows he was born in Hawaii. Even more interesting that most people didn’t know there was a baby. So, Ann wasn’t around her Hawaiian friends for them not to know or see that she was pregnant and where was she for the month after he was born?
http://cambodiana.org/MainreasonsofmysupportofObama.aspx