UW claims the 08/19/61 date on the WND transcript is a mistake based on a data entry typo and should be 09/19/61, see http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/08/22/confirmed-stanley-ann-dunham-began-studies-in-september-1961-not-august/
If Obama was born on 4 August and Stanley shows up in Seattle in “late August” according to the Susan Blake interview, as a mom so new she doesn’t know how to diaper the baby, it makes more sense that the start of her two classes was then three or four weeks away.
I’m sorry if I have added to the re-thrashing of an point already made and corrected as of August last year to which no new data seems to have arisen since.
That's believable, and consistent with the fact that Fall quarter here begins in late September.
So the time line looks something like this. Stanely Ann gives birth in Hawaii on August 4. She was young, and there is no evidence or indication that there were any complications with the birth, so she probably was home with her baby on August 5 or 6.
Since the birth went smoothly and she was very young, she likely recovered from it quickly, which makes it plausible that she took her newborn to a party or two within the next couple weeks.
Then she has a falling out with her husband, something not uncommon for teen moms. Maybe he told her at this time that he was a bigamist. Or maybe they just found they couldn 't get along in a stressful situation. These things happen all the time.
Whatever the cause, the falling out causes her to want to get away from her husband in the last weeks of August. What better place to run to then Seattle, where she has a support system in the form of friends made during her high school years? Sure, taking a newborn on 5 hour flight is no picnic, but certainly doable for an young 18 year-old mother with plenty of energy.
Actually, in my experience, young babies under 3 months are easier to travel with than older infants or toddlers. My wife an I took our daughter on a long flight when she was two months, and she pretty much slept the whole time. Friends confirm that this is pretty common.
Once in Seattle, she finds an apartment in Capitol Hill, which was a downscale, mixed-race neighborhood at the time, and starts taking classes at UW extension.
Given that her parents were solidly middle class, and state university tuition was super cheap in those days, all of the above was affordable.
Certainly, it all looks a lot more plausible than a Kenyan birth story. Why do you find the latter more plausible?
thanks for the link, this is an image of the record I think they are referring to, where the number '8' has been explained to be a '9' - I remain unconvinced -
If we are to take the commencement date as September 19, that's still six days before the September 25 commencement date as per their own calendar. Are they trying to make a Right out of two Wrongs?