Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)

Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

[SE Mom]

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

[Calpernia]

http://www.change-links.org/BarrackObama.htm

Excerpt:

According to family sources, Barack Obama senior traveled to America to study at the University of Hawaii in 1959 where he worked for an oil company and married his second wife, a white woman, named Anna Toot, and their union led to the birth of Barack Obama Junior.

Anna’s father was furious about the marriage between her daughter and Obama, and frequently threatened to pull his son-in-law out from the university. Reliable sources further revealed that Obama wrote numerous letters home pleading with his parents to intervene and salvage his marriage without success.

Winning a scholarship to study at the University of Harvard, Obama senior left his family in Hawaii, thus bringing the marriage to a standstill. His son, only two years old when his father left, is now an Illinois state senator.

Living up to the old proverb, “Blood is thicker than water,” Obama junior never shunned his native home and is still expected to receive a rousing welcome after his victory in the November US elections.

Joseph Ojwang is Change Links correspondent in Kenya.

[bvw]

This may be the same article (warning — hosted at a “progressive site”): http://www.change-links.org/BarrackObama.htm

[bvw]

Oopsies.

[Calpernia]

‘native home’.

[null and void]

What about setting up a paypal account loaded with enough money to spur someone in Honolulu to go to the library and look for a microfiche of Obama’s birth announcement?

If we posted it on Oahu’s Craigslist (GIGS), incentivized it, maybe we’d get some documents that would ‘shut us up’ once and for all.

I'll kick in some.

[bvw]

Yes, by the founder’s intent of the “natural born” restriction per George Washington and John Jay, and as clear from Blackstone — Obama is NOT natural born, because his dad, whether married to his mom or not, was a not a US citizen. The “natural born” clause must be read restrictively, not liberally. If EITHER parent is known not to be a citizen, then not natural born.

[null and void]

I am not arguing ad feminem.

Ad feminem?

[usmcobra]

I think since there was a "Anna Toot" in his family tree it is much more then a shorten version of hawaiian for old lady or Grandma. His mother's family moved to Hawaii only a couple of years before Obama was born so that natural Hawaiian heritage just isn't there.

I say that after reading that article Obama assumes that the root of the nickname is Hawaiian.

What Toot believed kept her going were the needs of her grandchildren and the stoicism of her ancestors," Obama wrote.

"Anna Toot" whoever she was, was someone his mother and his grandmother knew of and admired enough to take her name as their own, to the extent that his mother was known by that name by her African In Laws and his grandmother preferred to be called by it.

[aruanan]

may have been PhotoShopped. My reason for now thinking this is, look at the gold tree above the boys head. It has two lines going down the sides and is not the same shape. Also there are no flower looking things below it like in the Obama Sr, Ann photo.

Nope. The picture taker of the second photo of the parents (probably Barry himself) was shooting from a lower angle and a step or two to the right as can be seen by the shift of Daddy Obama's head to the left relative to the gold lights at the counter behind him. His position with respect to the ticket counter hasn't changed, though, he's just turned in place to face the photographer who is farther to the right than the other one, probably Ann.

In the other photo, there was a placard or sign suspended that covered up a portion of the gold lights in the distance. The shift in perspective would have been enough to uncover it, making it look like a different shape. The flowery thing is probably part of some woman's clothing on the other side of the far counter dealing with someone at the counter beyond that. Another of the white flowers can be seen above it. That being Hawaii, it wouldn't be usual to have someone wearing something with such a flower going through one of the other lines in the time between photos.

[Calpernia]

I understand that. My point was, in that article, Obama is referred to as native born, as in Kenya.

[null and void]

Where in California are you?

Not that I don’t trust you, or anything like that, but I’d really like to see your birth certificate with my own eyes.

I’ll show you mine...

[RubyR]

I think there could be more to the grandmother’s nickname “Toot” as well. I agree that possibly she was nicknamed that before the family came to Hawaii. And later Stanley Ann used it as an alias.

[null and void]

I couldn’t ping you from there. I didn’t have the characters on my font map to put the accent on the ‘u’.

Option+e then u.

[bvw]

So as to not be sexist. ;-)

[Calpernia]

Option? Is that Control? Alt? A Function Key?

[aruanan]

The old Honolulu International Airport on the South Ramp was bulging at the seams in the 1960s, and construction of new Overseas and Interisland Terminals on the North Ramp was well underway. A dedication ceremony for the new facility was held on August 23, 1962 and all operations switched to the new terminal on October 14, 1962.

Well, this picture of the Pan American location is pretty clearly the same terminal as seen with the kid and the guy purported to be Barack Obama, Sr.. Look at the sign poles and brackets and shapes of the desk and counter. If so, then the kid couldn't be Barry if he was born in 1961 or his mother was actually 10 years older than claimed and he was born in 1951 or she was 8 when she gave birth to him for him to be old enough to appear in a terminal that switched all operations to the new terminal in 1962.

[null and void]

No, he was born at the base hospital according to his birth certificate.

Show me.

All I've seen shows his place of birth as Colón:

Somebody (Sorry I don't remember who) on a another thread posted a map something like this one:

It sure looks like Colón is firmly in the Canal Zone to me, yet Gatún, swears it is now and always has been Panamanian turf.

[Calpernia]

bttt

[usmcobra]

Anna Toot is his grandmother's ancestor through the Wolfley/Payne family.

232 Ludwig / Lewis Wolfley, b. ... 2 March 1766, d. Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, 26 Sept. 1822 m. York Co., Pa., 1 Oct. 1805

233 Anna Maria Toot, b. Adams Co., Pa., ... [1786 or 1787], d. Delaware Co., Ohio, 23 Aug. 1841, bur. Radnor Cemetery, Radnor, Ohio

116 George Wolfley, b. Dauphin Co., Pa., 8 July 1807, d. Delaware Co., Ohio, 27 Dec. 1879 m.

117 Nancy Perry, b. Radnor, Delaware Co., Ohio, 22 March 1812, d. Radnor, Delaware Co., Ohio, 24 Aug. 1894

58 Robert Wolfley, b. ... , Ohio, ... 1834, d. ... July 1895 m. Delaware Co., Ohio, 29 Sept. 1859 [IGI]

59 Rachel Abbott, b. Licking Co., Ohio, ... Dec. 1835, d. ... [living 1900]

28 Charles T ... Payne, b. ... , Mo., ... June 1861, d. ... [living 1920] m. Johnson, Kan., 14 Jan. 1889 [IGI]

29 Della Wolfley, b. ... , Ohio, ... May 1863, d. ... [between 1900 and 1910]

14 Rolla Charles Payne, b. Olathe, Kansas, 23 Aug. 1892, d. ... Oct. 1968 [World War I Draft Registration; SSDI 443-01-1898] m. ... 1922

15 Leona McCurry, b. ... , Kansas, ... May 1897, d. ... [living 1930]

Stanley Armour Dunham, salesman, b. ... , Kansas, 23 March 1918, d. Honolulu, Hawaii, 8 Feb. 1992 [SSDI 514-03-4824], bur. Punchbowl National Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii m. ... 5 May 1940

7 Madelyn Lee Payne, bank vice president, b. Peru, Kansas, 26 Oct. 1922

I grouped husband and wife for this branch to Anna Toot so that only that linage is seen.

[RubyR]

Hmmm - re: his genealogy. I have family lines from St. Marys Co, MD to Nelson Co, KY too. Some of those names look familiar. I wonder if I am related? :)

Maybe if I can prove it then I could request a copy of his COLB from Hawaii! (ha! I’m sure that would fly)