Actually, that is not so far-fetched. People do that all the time for the silliest of reasons. My family lied to me about the death of one of my uncles, and I didn't find out the truth until I ran into one of my cousins at my son's wedding. My uncle (an Annapolis grad) supposedly died of a burst appendix shortly before he was to take command of his first ship which was later sunk at Pearl Harbor. Old family story repeated time after time at family reunions.
Truth? My uncle died of colon cancer at Bethesda, MD. The family never spoke of the real reason because in the 1940s-1960s nobody ever wanted to admit that any relative succumbed to cancer.
There could be many reasons why his family would want to cover up the circumstances of Obama's birth. This was a seriously screwed up family.
As I mentioned on another thread, my mother actually tried to persuade me to fly back to CA to give birth to my oldest (leaving my husband) just so that she could claim to be a native Californian. Ostensibly this was so that she could claim the right to run for Maid of Cotton (had to be born in a cotton producing state) just in case she was pretty and would have wanted to do that! Geeeesh! My (otherwise) sane mother was off the deep end on this one.
Of course I said No, and not only because I had already paid the doctor to attend the birth! And yes, she placed birth announcements in every paper in every town where either my husband, or me, had ever lived!
That is what ambitious mothers did in 1960.
“Actually, that is not so far-fetched. People do that all the time for the silliest of reasons. “
Yeah, my children still don’t know about my *first* very short and childless marraige.
My personal belief is that he probably was born in Hawaii, but there might be another reason for him not to release the original records. For example, maybe it will open up a case to challenge his natural born status on other legal grounds, as some claim.
In any case, I agree with you that it’s not so far-fetched that a family would lie to a child. The press is wrong. Sometimes families lie to children to protect them. I remember when parents sometimes didn’t tell their adopted children they were adopted. And how many single or divorced parents have told not-so-true stories to their children about the other parent? If the Jerry Springer show is any indication, apparently some mothers themselves don’t even know the origins of their children.
I’m not saying Obama was lied to. I believe his mother would’ve told him if he was born in Kenya. But, parents and grandparents sometimes do hide information from children or tell them an “untrue” story for many different reasons.