“There are two pieces of evidence placing Stanley Ann Dunham in Seattle in the later half of August. Her enrollment to attend the Washington University, and the testimony of her friend Susan Blake.”
The evidence is not definitive. Here is her college record from the University of Washington
http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaObamaUnivofWashingtonTranscript.jpg
In the bottom right corner she took two “Extension/Correspondence Courses” that ran from August 19 to December 12, 1961.
Here is an additional Univ. of Washington record,
http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaUWashington.jpg
She apparently didn’t take any regular classes at the U of W. until the Spring of 1962.
So did she take correspondence classes that in the 1960’s were handled by mail?
As to Susan Blake’s testimony:
“Susan Blake, another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband’s plans to return to Kenya.”
http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html
A “brief visit” doesn’t suggest that she moved there in August, 1961.
And this:
“Blake recalls that Dunham, who was calling herself Ann Obama at the time, visited her at her house in Mercer Island during the last week of August, 1961.”
“She left Honolulu just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10313894/The-Myth-of-Barack-Obamas-Early-Life-Leahy-Cached
Here is the thing that I consider silly. These friends of Dunham are being asked questions about an event that occurred 47 years previously.
What would have been so remakable that they would have remembered inimate exact details of a 47 year old event?
Here is an additional Univ. of Washington record,
http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/AnnaUWashington.jpg
This is the first piece of information which I have seen that claims these were correspondence courses. I have previously seen written articles which refuted this possibility. Apparently they were mistaken. So okay, you have rendered indeterminate that piece of evidence. It doesn't prove Stanley Ann was in Hawaii, because she could have easily corresponded from Blaine Washington as well. We still have the other piece of evidence.
As to Susan Blake’s testimony:
“Susan Blake, another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband’s plans to return to Kenya.”
We now know that Barack Obama never had any intentions of playing house with Stanley Ann. Either Stanley lied to Susan Blake to save face, or Susan lied about what Stanley said to save face for Obama.
A “brief visit” doesn’t suggest that she moved there in August, 1961.
It certainly does suggest that she moved there. How is the Broke Stanley Ann paying for flights to and from Hawaii? I can see her mother footing the bill once, and for cause, (To get an embarrassing pregnancy out of the way * and put the child up for adoption as indicated in Barack Obama's INS file.) but to pay for what amounts to pleasure jaunts? I don't think so. Stanley flew there to stay for awhile.
And this:
“Blake recalls that Dunham, who was calling herself Ann Obama at the time, visited her at her house in Mercer Island during the last week of August, 1961.”
There you go.
“She left Honolulu just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby.”
Others have pointed out that no airline would have allowed an infant to fly in 1961 because the pressure change could rupture a baby's ear drums. I am given to understand that it was the normal and usual practice to ban infants on all flights.
Here is the thing that I consider silly. These friends of Dunham are being asked questions about an event that occurred 47 years previously.
What would have been so remakable that they would have remembered inimate exact details of a 47 year old event?
That's easy. Having your vacation to Santa Cruz cut short because fires (Austrian Gulch Fire, 1961) are ravaging the countryside. From The Obama file:
4. Susan had gone on vacation to Santa Cruz in summer of '61, had returned mid August because she remembered the fires around Santa Cruz at that time which caused her to return home. Soon after she was back, her mother told her that Stanley was coming to visit. Stanley had the newborn Barack Obama, roughly 3 weeks old. To Susan's best recollection it was sometime around Aug. 25th to Aug 30th.
Unless you can refute it, that piece of information pretty much establishes that Stanley Ann was in the vicinity of Seattle during the later half of August.
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* For proof that the pregnancy was Embarrassing to Madelyn Dunham, I direct your attention to these quotes from Madelyn Dunham's coworker.
Berry said she didn't realize Obama was Dunham's grandson until early this year while watching TV.
The norm is that a grandmother crows about her first grandchild, and often puts pictures on her desk. That no one in her workplace knew she had a grandson can only be explained by intent. She was ashamed, as would be expected of a White Girl from Kansas in 1961.
``She was pretty conservative from my point of view so back then it would have been surprising'' to know she had a black grandson, Berry said. ``I would have thought: `I wonder what she thinks about that?'''
