See my posts above. The simplest, most plausible explanation is clerical error. If you mistype the first digit of a Honolulu zip code as a zero instead of a nine, you get a Connecticut zip code. So what most likely happened is the clerk mistyped the zip code on his application, and the system assigned numbers based on zip code.
Once a SSN is assigned, it can't be changed, so even if he corrected the clerical error on the zip code, his SSN wouldn't change.
As far as I can tell, that's the only pluasible explanation anyone has proposed, and it makes perfect sense.
“In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042, and one starting 364.
In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999, which are not valid SSNs.
There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.
In Massachusetts — where Obama attended Harvard Law School — we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office. This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.”
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/SocialSecurity.htm
No, nothing here, move along.
Some of the posters should look at your FR Profile. I did. No need to waste any more time on your posts.
Why would a clerk mistype a number on an application? Presumably, Obama filled out the application and WROTE his zip code. It’s more likely that if a typo was made by a clerk, it was a keypuncher or a computer terminal operator. In 1977, the numeric pad would have been used to type numbers. Not the numbers that are along the top of a typewriter. The 0 and the 9 are not adjacent on a numeric keypad of a keypunch machine.
If you transcribe ANY initial numeral as a 9, you “get a CT zip code”. Upon what basis do you (or Dr. Conspiracy) assume that the zip code had anything to do with assigning SS#s? Why not simply use the state code: CT versus HI? Which, as you see, are not similar at all.
You seem to be grasping at straw (men) because you want to believe what you already believe. And you would prefer to simply rationalize away anything that doesn’t fit what you prefer to believe.
Taken alone, this might be seen as a simple curiosity (pun intended). However, there are far too many such inexplicable “facts” about this particular person to look the other way while true believers sweep them ALL under the rug.