[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Maya's being born in 1963 makes it look like Obama may have been born before Hawaii became a state, as there certainly appears to be more than a 2 year age difference between the two of them. So it looks like Obama couldn't have been born in 1961. Otherwise why would he look so much more than 2 years older than Maya? If he is 4 or 5 years older than Maya as it appears than it looks like he may have been born before Hawaii was a state.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.kansasprairie.net/kansasprairieblog/?p=7023

Caption:Barack Obama hugs his younger half sister Maya at his high school graduation. (Photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng / March 23, 2007)

The majority of the early photo's seem to have all been supplied by the half-sister.

Now, run me through what makes you think she was born in 1963?

Obama Snr arrived in Hawaii in 1958. The Dunhams in 1960 IIRC.

[Fred Nerks]

Obama’s mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960, touted herself as an atheist.

She was the curious and precocious daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley — after himself.

The Dunhams moved to Seattle in the mid-50’s and Anna was greatly influenced by left-wing and communist teachers in the Mercer Island High School, who had the students read the philosophers Sartre and Kierkegaard, “The Communist Manifesto” and question the existence of God.

In 1955, the chairman of the Mercer Island school board, John Stenhouse, testified before the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party.

Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing and began attending Sunday services at the East Shore Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue.

“In the 1950s, this was sometimes known as “the little Red church on the hill,” said Peter Luton, the church’s senior minister. Skepticism, the kind that Stanley embraced and passed on to his daughter, was welcomed here.

A high school classmate described Anna as “a fellow traveler. . . . We were liberals before we knew what liberals were.”

The descriptive, “fellow traveler,” was first applied to non-communists who were inclined toward the views of the Communist Party by Leon Trotsky.

In 1960, Anna’s father found a better opportunity at a furniture store in Hawaii and moved his family to Honolulu.

from THE OBAMA FILE.

(In 1960, Anna’s father found a better opportunity at a furniture store in Hawaii and moved his family to Honolulu.)