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Fred Nerks wrote:

"Obama Senior arrived in the US in what year we do not know, he wrote to his family in Kenya and told them he was working for an oil company and had married a woman named ANNA TOUT, when the letter arrived, someone who could read in the village, read the letter out to the family, and the name TOUT became TOOT... it’s phonetic.

"There was no connection between the Dunhams and the name TOUT or TOOT. But the contents of the letters that Obama Senior wrote home to Kenya, over time, became common knowledge in the village. So that when Kezia said, ‘he married ANNA TOOT’ she was simply repeating what everyone knew...

"Came time to write the mythology: - ANNA and TOOT had to be woven into the narrative. ... Stanley Ann, who was NEVER known as anything BUT Stanley Ann, or the nickname Stanney, as attested by several of her Mercer Island classmates... was given the name ANN or ANNA, and Madelyn was given the nickname TOOT, ‘because’ isn’t TUT an abbreviation of grandmother in Hawaiian?

"ANNA TOUT might have been the woman O Senior married in the US, if he married anybody... but IMO he never married Stanley Ann Dunham. He arrived in Hawaii in 1959 from goodness knows where, and it seems Stanley Ann Dunham was at that time in Chicago."

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"ANNA TOUT might have been the woman O Senior married in the US, if he married anybody... but IMO he never married Stanley Ann Dunham. He arrived in Hawaii in 1959 from goodness knows where, and it seems Stanley Ann Dunham was at that time in Chicago."

In the face of: The birth certificates that place his birth in Mombasa to Stanley Ann; the missionaries who saw her try to get on the airplane pregnant; Susan Blake who saw her on Mercer Island a very short time after the birth in the first week of August, 1961; you can't have a problem with her as the mother.

Obama's testimony that his mother was in Kenya 72 hours before he was born--what was she doing there?

I haven't spent the money or time to search for evidence that they were married in Kenya. I think that is the logical analysis--the legend became married in Hawaii because they wanted to erase her presence in Kenya before the birth but that is the logic of where she was and where they were married. If I had the money and capacity to look, I would find evidence that is where they were married.

Obama's father's wives becoming friends with Stanley--when other than between February 1961 and August 1961?

Why did she spend the money to divorce him if she wasn't married to him?

Why did she keep trying to get together with him in Boston in 1962?

And in 1959--Stanley Ann was in Chicago? She was still in high school at Mercer Island?