“The very fact that he claims HI is enough to tell us he wasn’t born there.”
Well, we don’t want to be accused of “failure of imagination” here.
What if he was born in a Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers? In the INS docs there was discussion of him being given up to the Salvation Army. What if Ann decided to keep him at the last minute?
I don’t believe that happened, but it is a possibility. It would destroy the DNC narrative.
She could have an undocumented off record home birth in HI or WA or Canada, as you have suggested. All of those would not be good for the DNC narrative of the ground-breaking Black/White marriage.
Had Little Barry been born in Hawaii, Stanley Ann would not have instantly jetted off to Seattle. The expense was enormous, and back in the early days her parents weren’t awash in money.
Plus what reason would SAD have had to leave her school, her home and her family and move to a city where she knew no one? The best Maraniss can do is float a theory of domestic abuse. But if the pair never lived together, how would that work? Would O Sr periodically force his way into the Kalanianaole Highway address, and beat SAD to a pulp? Or would he stalk her at UoH, and beat her right there in the university?
Stanley Ann almost certainly had Little Barry in a home for unwed mothers. In Vancouver. She was supposed to give the baby up, but impulsively opted to keep him. She didn’t take the newborn on an unnecessary, nearly 1,500 mile flight. She just drove across the border and registered at UoW.
Any other scenario is unlikely at best. The above is the only one that fits all the known facts.