Posted on 03/22/2011 1:23:41 PM PDT by STARWISE
I applied well before Barry for my SS#, but I was also 16ish and did it myself. Sixteen isn’t a child who can’t fill out a relatively simple form. I may have needed some parental input, but I remember getting a SS# made me feeling like a real grown up. Since then SSA began to require that kids get them, so parents have to send in the applications now. Another rite of passage bites the dust.
I jumped to a false conclusion that this article described a re-issue, on a hasty and less than careful read. In particular, I was left with the incorrect impression that Mr. Wood (or Woods) was assigned the same number attributed to Obama.
Ah come on bush, keep an open mind. Curiosity has been here a reasonable amount of time. He is giving reasonable points of argument. We are about finding the truth, are we not?
Sorry West, “Have you got” is very Southern U.S.A. I use it all the time.
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Well how does Obies SS number never being issued fit with y’all’s theory? Another typ0?
Very interesting.
That is, between now and election Nov. 2012, why don't people simply ask Obama at every campaign stop and on every tv appearance why his Social Security number seems to have been issued in Connecticut, when there is no record of Obama ever living in Connecticut?
Yes, I believe that we should make it a top campaign issue until Obama finally explains his side of the story as to why he seems to have a Social Security number that was issued in Connecticut and not in Hawaii.
Sadly, it seems that the article was written to be confused in just that way.
SAD was married to Lolo Soetoro when Obama’s SSN was issued. Hollister queried with “Barack Obama.” I’d have to guess that Obama was “Barry Soetoro” at that time. Of course, I have no idea. As I said earlier, I’m just throwing out stuff. Nobody knows the truth.
As I said, I was just guessing. Obama had a unique situation being adopted by an Indonesian and living with grandparents. He may have needed copies of adoption papers, legal guardianship papers, etc. Who really knows? But to your point, yes, a sixteen year old is certainly capable of filling out paperwork. No dispute there.
My paternal grandparents raised me. We lived in FL when I applied for my SSN. I had no contact with my mother at all. To get my SSN, my grandmother and I had to apply in person at the local SSA office with copies of my parents’ original divorce decree granting custody to my father and a notarized statement from my father that his parents were my legal guardians. We also needed copies of his drivers’ license. It was complicated and a pain in the butt. I was 12 in 1982.
Forgot the most important part - duh! I also had to supply a certified copy of my BC from Ohio. (Yes, it was a long-form BC.) My mother’s last name is spelled incorrectly on my BC and I’ve never amended it. So the SSA clerk made a big freaking deal that the divorce decree didn’t match the spelling of my mother’s last name.
My ultimate point in relating this whole story is to point out that government bureaucrats can be unnecessarily tedious and picky in processing applications that are abnormal. Obama’s probably was.
Again - I’m just guessing and not making assertions of fact. You know, I’d be “all uppity about it” if I had conclusive evidence.
curiosity is on the Sanity Squad (like me). Thus the birthers automatically question and dispute his suggestions/theories. There are others on the squad who’ve been here since 98/99 and the birthers call them trolls for disagreeing with them on this issue. More than a few squad members have served their country in the military and they’re still attacked as Obots and trolls on these threads. It’s disgusting.
(To be fair, not all birthers are guilty of such attacks.)
Kudos to your paternal grandparents. I’d say they did an excellent job, even if you are an occasional pain in the a$$ ;)
I wish I could remember what the old SS applications were like. The current version requires both parents’ SS#s, mother’s maiden name, etc. I can’t remember if they did that before all the SSA revisions thru the 70s and 80s. If that info was required in the late 70s, Brackets would have had a more complicated application than most.
There’s only one person who has the answers, and he’s chosen not to be forthcoming about any aspect of his life pre-2004 when he hit the national stage, followed by his meteoric rise to the highest office in the land. It’s all rather extraordinary, rather like blue smoke and mirrors.
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