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

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.

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A chat with the world’s most famous grandma

By RUPI MANGATPosted Friday, February 20 2009 at 13:22

We dash from Lake Victoria Safari Village to make it to the ferry that runs like clockwork between Mbita and Luanda Kotieno on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Even a five-minute delay can mean a three-hour wait.

The ferry crossing is always the highlight of the journey, for the lake is beautiful, studded with tiny islets and edged by massifs of the Gembe and Gwassi, Homa Bay and Kendu Bay. We also watch out for hippos and the rich profusion of birds.

We dock at Luanda Kotieno and we’re on our way to visit the world’s most famous grandma, Mama Sarah Obama in the now famous Kogelo village.

Kogelo is only an hour’s drive from Luanda Kotieno and just a small detour on our way to Kisumu.

It’s the opportune time to visit the ancestral home of President Barack Obama of the United States of America.

We turn in at Ndori on the Kisumu-Bondo road, where the sign for the school named after the then Senator is. Perhaps another school will be built and called President Barack Obama, or maybe the current school will be renamed.

The tarmac ends at Ndori, from where a fine murram road leads us through local homesteads, farms and the school with its name painted bold: Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.

There’s no need to ask for directions because every time we stop to do that, someone points it out even before we ask; obviously, the route to the Obama homestead has become very popular.

We cross the bridge over the heavy flow of the Yala River, which empties its waters into Lake Victoria.

An inscription on the bridge reads “PWD 1930”. It seems as if that was the last time any major investment in infrastructure was made here by the public works department.

It is said that at the turn of the 20th Century, the slave traders broke their journey on the banks of the river and cried out to Allah for delivering them to water, hence the name, Yala.

A sign points to Mwisho Hotel, meaning we’re on track and the right turn will lead us to Mama Sarah’s, Obama’s step-grandmother, who raised the American president’s father.

Even without any signpost to say that it’s the presidential ancestral home, we guess that it is for who in the midst of such rural setting would have military tents and guards at the gate? We’ve arrived.

We look through the high fence of slim metal bars into the Obama homestead.

It’s simple and unpretentious – a green lawn dotted with three small, single-story buildings, a few chickens running around, tall mango trees spreading their shade in front of the main house and a vegetable garden on the side.

A group of people is seated under the shade of the mango trees in front of the main house; one is a woman in red.

We guess she is Mama Sarah. The security guards at the gate ask why we’re there.

To see the home of the Obama family and if possible, to congratulate the grandmother on her grandson’s victory.

He asks for identifications and we pass our cards to him.

He walks to the group under the tree and after a few minutes, returns to say it’s okay.

We can’t believe our luck. This is more than we had bargained for and we happily fill our details in the visitor’s book before walking to Mama Sarah.

She is all simplicity but dignified.

Contented. A sturdy but soft-spoken woman unaffected by the sudden interest in her family, but nevertheless, proud of her grandson. She offers us seats. While she finishes chatting with her other visitors, Said Obama, President Obama’s paternal uncle, keeps us company.

“Barack’s been here three times and he fitted in well,” says the tall man, a mechanic in Kisumu. There’s a resemblance to his nephew — the handsome face and height. “Barack’s a very down-to-earth man but with exceptional abilities. I knew he would rise to be important, but his becoming president has taken us by surprise.”

Meanwhile, Mama Sarah has finished with her guests and turns her attention to us. She speaks fondly of her grandson.

“He was 25 years old when he first visited. He’s a courageous man. He faces many challenges and speaks the truth.”

I ask Mama if she will move into a big, modern house now and what development she would like to see in the area.

“No, I’m comfortable where I am. I’ve lived here since l got married. I’d like to see Barack bring development, not just for the family, but for the whole country. We need schools, hospitals, infrastructure, employment and other development programmes.”

Mama Sarah is from Karachuonyo in Rachuonyo District but moved to Kogelo in 1941 upon marrying Barack Obama’s grandfather. A few steps away are two simple graves marked with tombstones. One is of her husband, which reads, “Jaduong’ Hussein Onyango Obama 1870-29/11/1975. May his soul rest in peace.”

The grave of President Barack Obama’s father lies a few feet away. The simple inscription on it reads “Barack Hussein Obama 1936-1982. Ibed gi kwe (Rest in Peace)”

President Obama’s father was one of the beneficiaries of the “Mboya Airlift” project of the 1960s, which saw several thousand Kenyans fly to the US for university education. A brilliant scholar, he met Anne Durham and the rest is history.

We bid goodbye to Mama Obama and the rest of the family. It’s been a really interesting meeting with a demure woman of great wisdom, someone to look up to. No airs, no vanity, just simply the grandma of a president.

http://www.nation.co.ke/magazines/saturday/-/1216/532694/-/item/1/-/6xwwai/-/index.html

Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia

S. Ann Dunham

Edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper With a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng and an afterword by Robert W. Hefner

440 pages (November 2009)
13 tables, 2 maps, 4 figures (tent.)

Cloth - $27.95

0-8223-4687-7
[ISBN13 978-0-8223-4687-6]

President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had planned.

Dunham’s dissertation adviser Alice G. Dewey and her fellow graduate student Nancy I. Cooper undertook the revisions at the request of Dunham’s daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The result is Surviving against the Odds, a book based on Dunham’s research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population.

Surviving against the Odds reflects Dunham’s commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia.

After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawai‘i to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawai‘i to attend school in 1971.

Dedicated to Dunham’s mother Madelyn, her adviser Alice, and “Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field,” Surviving against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar.

Focusing attention on the small rural industries overlooked by many scholars, Dunham argued that wet-rice cultivation was not the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia.

Surviving against the Odds includes a preface by the editors, Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, and a foreword by her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, each of which discusses Dunham and her career.

In his afterword, the anthropologist and Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of Surviving against the Odds, its relation to anthropology when it was researched and written, and its continuing relevance today.

Rest at link

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Sep/12/ln/hawaii809120379.html

EXCERPT:

SEPARATION AND DIVORCE

In the early 1970s, as her research and success in helping villages increased, Soetoro and Dunham split up — and eventually divorced in 1979.

“He got a job with Union Oil,” Dewey said. “Lolo joked that they got divorced because she was falling in love with Javanese handcrafts and he was becoming an American oil man, which wasn’t far from the truth.”

Maya and her mother returned to Honolulu in 1973 and, for three years, lived with Barack on Poki Street, just ‘ewa of Punahou School.

“My father did not live with us at that time,” Maya said. “They lived apart. They were still together and still wanted to make a go of the marriage.”

Dunham took young Maya back to Indonesia in 1976 to live with Soetoro’s mother, while Barack moved into his grandparents’ apartment on Beretania Street while he finished his high school years at Punahou.

“We spent summers with him, we spent winters with him and there were a lot of letters in between,” Maya said.

She, too, was homeschooled by Dunham until 1981, when Maya enrolled at the Jakarta International School and then, at age 14, returned in 1984 to enter Punahou.

“It was an extraordinary childhood,” Soetoro-Ng said. “She was such an interesting and vigorously intellectual woman. I owe everything to her example. Her life of service is something to which we should all aspire.”

Dewey later traveled with Dunham to the same village in Kenya where Obama’s father came from and — decades later — saw a video of Obama in the same village near a building that arranged micro loans.

Obama had arrived at the place where his mother had helped so many people years before.

“He followed in her footsteps and didn’t even know it,” Dewey said. “I know, because he certainly would have said something about it because his mother meant so much to him.”

It was a moment that brought Dewey full circle to the woman she had mentored and grew to admire — a woman whose work she believes could influence the course of U.S. policy.

“Sen. Obama often speaks of his mother’s dedication to helping people,” Dewey said. “How he was raised is part of how he will be as president.”

Reach Dan Nakaso at dnakaso@honoluluadvertiser.com.

Check out the comment at # 8,815. Superimposed photo at #8,809. Good observation, Faith, and hoosiermama.

Then, see the information below:

**Birth Certificate APPLICATION WAS NOT LODGED BY MADELYN.

She would NOT misspell her own name.

Note carefully:

When do such misspellings happen?

STREET - someone who is not a Hawaiian resident...but knows how to use a typewriter.

MADELYN...MADLYN! you got to be kidding. Who ever wrote that must have been TOLD what her name was. IT’S A CLASSIC PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION ERROR.

same with ERICSON FOR ERICKSON.

Now who could that apply to?

Someone who took the application away, typed it up, filled in the signatures, (all of them by the same hand)

And took it back to lodge where-ever such applications go,

WHERE THEY then FILED IT. BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF BIRTH.**

See:

http://s668.photobucket.com/albums/vv47/MissieBessie/?action=view&current=postandmail-2.jpg

Here is a FRmail, posted with permission:

**So the sequence of events gives the lie to the announcements being automatically generated - ever since we saw that zero application and the way it was filled in, we could see that a relative or parent could complete the application and present it - to have the birth registered.

The process (at least in 1961) was the lodgement of an application completed by relative or parent, take it to the registration branch, and obtain a certified birth certificate.

But you can’t get one of those, unless you have something from the hospital to prove the child was ACTUALLY BORN.

Then announce it the birth in the local papers. In the case of Nordyke, they did that about two weeks after the birth. And we can understand why. It had to do with the health of the children. No one would announce the birth of twins in a newspaper if it looked as if one of them might not make it.

But in 1961 when zero was born (lord knows where) all they wanted to achieve is a RECORD OF THE BIRTH.

AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE PAPER.

They got what they wanted. But what they never got, and what he cannot get now, IS A PROPER CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

All he has been able to get is an abstract of the original APPLICATION.**

Click on photo to enlarge:

http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad288/ParkerShannon/Images/NordykeBirthAnnoucement.gif

[Many thanks to those who provided this information.]

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