Posted on 03/22/2011 1:23:41 PM PDT by STARWISE
While out promoting my new book, “Deconstructing Obama,” I have been asked a few times about Obama’s mysterious Social Security number.
Not knowing enough to speak authoritatively, I chose to swim upstream through the data flood and head for the source.
Here I found a no-nonsense licensed investigator from Ohio named Susan Daniels. Widowed at 30 with seven children, Daniels went back to school and eventually emerged as a certified paralegal.
After several years working for others, Daniels got her own license as an investigator in 1995. Since then, she has specialized in litigation support for law firms. Her particular strength has been in researching assets.
By her own admission, Daniels is “good with public records.” She knows her way around databases and has access to many that the public does not.
“I did not like the way things were going,” Daniels says of the country’s drift circa 2009. And so in the best spirit of citizen journalism, she began to investigate Obama on her own.
What she and fellow investigator Neil Sankey unearthed was a nugget that could have ended the career of a George Bush or a Sarah Plain: Barack Obama had been using a social security number issued in Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, a state in which he never lived or even visited at that time in his life.
This will not come as news to the readers of WorldNetDaily, whose thorough investigation climaxed last June when WND’s veteran White House correspondent Les Kinsolving confronted Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs on the subject.
Predictably, Gibbs laughed Kinsolving off and switched the subject to the birth certificate. Kinsolving had seen this kind of laugh and switch before. In 1982, for instance, he introduced the subject of AIDS to then press secretary Larry Speakes.
“Over a third of [the victims] have died,” said Kinsolving. “It’s known as ‘gay plague.’”
“I don’t have it. Do you?” joked Speakes to a general round of laughter. But unlike Gibbs, Speakes simply did not know any better.
As much as Daniels appreciates the work of WND and other serious investigators who have helped clarify the picture, she is distressed by the few who have clouded it.
“There have been many playing junior investigator from the start,” she jokes. “I don't know if they even have their decoder rings yet.”
This being the case, I asked Daniels to guide me through the data mine field and help me ascertain what we know for sure about the world’s best-known social security number--042-68-4425.
“All I can say,” says Daniels of 042-68-4425, “is that it’s phony and [Obama] has been using it, with it first appearing on his selective service document in 1980.”
Daniels sent me a copy of the hand-written application of the individual who held the number immediately before Obama’s, 042-68-4424. The applicant, Thomas Wood, died at age nineteen which is why his information is available.
Wood's Social Security number was issued sometime between March and May of 1977. Obama would turn sixteen in August of that year. Woods lived on Glenview Drive in Newington, Connecticut, the state from which all “042s” applied. Obama lived in Hawaii.
True to form, the left-leaning media set out to undermine the Social Security controversy and ridicule the investigators. Revealing, however, is the weakness of the response.
“Numbers are assigned based on the return address on the request envelope, not residency,” crowed Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post as though he had said something meaningful. Linkins suggested two possible explanations, both preposterous.
One is that Obama applied for his SSN as a little boy in Indonesia for no known reason, and the application just happened to be processed in Connecticut for no known reason either.
For the second, Jinkins cited the argument of Carole Glibert, in the Yahoo-related “Associated Content.” Said Gilbert, presumably with a straight face, “In fact, Barack Obama's dad attended college in Connecticut and in 1977, Obama was college aged; is it beyond reason to consider that he might have checked out his father's alma mater?”
Last time I checked, Harvard was in Massachusetts. The closest town to Harvard in Connecticut is about 90 minutes away, and there is no record that Obama Sr. lived there, let alone that Obama visited his imaginary alma mater and just happened to apply for a Social Security card while visiting.
Daniels also sent me a copy of Obama’s Selective Service data. Obama appears to have registered on September 4, 1980, a month after his nineteenth birthday. The form lists the telling last four digits of his “042” number, “4425.”
This is the first use of the “042” number that Daniels could find. She is just not sure it is legitimate. Some have credibly argued that the Selective Service information was forged and backdated once Obama became a presidential candidate.
“They were stupid to use the CT number on the [Selective Service] card,” Daniels adds, “because now there is no way for [Obama] to back out of that number.”
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Agreed. Simplest explanation. I’m just tossing stuff out to see if it sticks.
Agreed. Simplest explanation. I’m just tossing stuff out to see if it sticks.
Some of the posters should look at your FR Profile. I did. No need to waste any more time on your posts.
The 4425 # previously belonged to a man who died around the time O was getting his SS#. I don’t remember the man’s name but he was from Conn., born in 1890, and died in Hawaii.
Got a source for that? I suspect this is one of those many birther factoids made up on some random blog that just got repeated by birthers as if it were fact, when it's not.
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Good one.
I didn’t look at Curiosity’s profile. However, I notice in one of his posts he uses the construction, “have you got.” That makes me suspect he’s not a native speaker of American English. Americans usually say, “do you have.” I’d say he’s British, or perhaps Canadian, or some other nationality, or perhaps some kind of academic who likes to imagine himself better educated than the rest of us Yahoos.
Thanks STARWISE.
Obama is using someone elses SSN. This is not in dispute.
Actually, he is using MULTIPLE SSNs, which is a felony.
Just type the 042 social security number that is attributed to him into the selective service website, and his name pops up. So yes, indeed, we do know that is his genuine SSN.
Don’t you mean it is one of several of his genuine SSNs???
The guy that has spent 2 mil plus to cover his entire past outside of his ghost written autobiographies.
The ‘typo’ sounds plausible if it happened to the rest of us but with BO it sounds a bit too convenient.
Maybe that zip code is why Connecticut was chosen in the first place.
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.. Ping!
Can you back up your existence here with multiple forms of authentic, official documentation ? LOL ...
I love that photo! “Stuck on stupid”!
Yes but, I'm not allowed so say. :)
LOL ...
That is what I had found before, that he had any number of SS#s. Also there is property all over the country under his names, his mother’s name/names and others in his close family. I would like to find out if, like any “good” democrat, he voted in many different locations. I think that would be well worth looking into for any investigator.
Okay, I’ll give you a B+ for plausibility, but explain Thomas wood who applied for that # and then died.
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