[Nathan Zachary]

"I know, I know. I was just saying that “African” is not a smoking gun."

But it is. The COLB asks for the race, not country of origin. The word used to describe blacks was Negro, which is a correct description of race regardless or country of origin.

"African" is the very incorrect but 'policically correct' stupidity that is being used today. It wasn't even a consideration when this COLB was said to be issued.

[Genoa]

Yes, “Negro” was the correct racial term to use in 1961. I absolutely agree with you. All I am saying is that there might have been an understandable motive for someone in 1961 such as a clerk or a nurse or a doctor to use the incorrect term “African” in this case: not wanting to use “Negro” for someone who was an educated gentleman from Kenya and wanting to create a distinction in his case. That said, I think the COLB is very fishy and would really like for Obama to come clean and release his long form.

[BIGLOOK]

Whenever Stanley Ann and Madelyn Dunham showed up with the kid at whatever clinic to obtain a birth registration, the resident physician most likely took their statements, examined the kid and since the father was in absentia, went to default. Father; Unknown, Race; Caucasian (after the mother's race).

If this is the 'embarrassment' claimed by Obama's legal teams blocking discovery in court cases, it's weak....and so's his claim to being a 'Natural born citizen'.