If three days before he was born Obama’s mother was in Kenya and Obama himself admitted it, it is almost proof he was born there. Unlike today in 1961 flying out of Africa to Hawaii was a long process of connecting Scheduled flights on very random schedules.
Were there daily flights out of Kenya to an air hub that connected to flights to America and Hawaii or did she have to wait until a weekly flight left to somewhere like Paris or London on a transcontinental carrier?
If Obama said she was in Nairobi, 72 hours before he was born in Hawaii, then it is a matter of figuring out how she got to Hawaii or rather if it was impossible for her to travel there in that amount of time.
In 1961 it may well have been impossible for his mother to travel that far in that short a time with the airline schedules of the day.
pardon me for jumping in, but we need a source/link for that comment, I think...
Let me give you a clue to where I think she might have been:
SOME GHANA HISTORY & comment #37.
I generally agree with your bottom line. But in a legal setting that doesn't do much for you because he would say he didn't have first hand knowledge; he was just repeating a remark he had heard from his mother; it isn't really substantive. Which is I suppose why the comment never got great attention.
Further, your view of the transportation issues is in fact excessive. Early on the long thread, copies of the original BOAC schedules for August of 1961 are posted. I had some knowledge from the period because a law school classmate of mine who was several years ahead of me in the practice was involved in a lawsuit in the area and taking depositions there. He was driving to Vancouver BC to take the reverse flights.
There were two or three scheduled flights each week leaving Nairobi and connecting through Glasgow Scotland and Vancouver BC. There was no real impediment to her being on Mercer Island on the third day. Further, there is almost a full additional day in the time lag between Nairobi and the West Coast of North America.