One key point being Ann Dunham DID NOT enroll at U of HI for the spring semester 1961. She just started college there, even pregnant she could have attended. Doesn’t make sense...
This was when the void begans, supposedly married in Febuary in Maui; no proof they actually lived together in HI....where is she from Dec - August???? Was Obama Sr enrolled in classes for the spring 1961? Is he listed as enrolled, but then withdrew? Any proof he was on the island?
Perhaps the impetus was to avoid the STIGMA of pregnancy at such a young age, out of wedlock, to a foreign national of another race from her parents and society (fellow students).
Fair to assume the parents were not accepting. Or maybe she left to avoid them knowing she was pregnant, quickly rationalized and eloped into the sunset with Obama Sr, off to distant foreign lands, “Uhm bye, we’re in love (i think?)!”.
Routes from Nairobi, Kenya were to Glasgow, Scotland, to Vancouver, British Colombia...
Actually, just read this past posting from David...and it would make perfect sense!
She WAS ESTRANGED from parents/
couldn’t marry in U.S. because of BIGAMY LAWS/
left for Kenya with Sr. ON XMAS BREAK BETWEEN SEMESTERS/
Obama Sr. RETURNS for classes at U. Of Hawaii/
Stanley unable to return home in time because of pregnant condition gives birth in Mombassa Kenya and FLYS NAIROBI TO GLASGOW TO VANCOUVER to old stomping grounds Washington State/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2303014/posts?page=188#188
” Fair to assume the parents were not accepting. “
You agree with Barry. Or Bar as his grandmother called him.
” Dreams From My Father “ by Barack Obama.
Page 22
“How and when the marriage occured remains a bit murky ,a bill of particulars that I’ve never quite had the courage to explore.”
“ There’s no record of a real wedding, a cake , a ring, a giving away of the bride .”
“ No families in attendance , it’s not even clear that people back in Kansas were fully informed.”
But, after writing that Obama says (I believe this to be a leap because how would he know if no families were in attendance ? )
that it was just a small civil ceremony with a JP.
” The whole thing seems so fragile in retrospect, so haphazard .”
” And perhaps that’s how my grandparents intended it to be,
a trial that would pass as long as they maintained a stiff upper lip
and didn’t do anything drastic.”
Drastic ???
” If so, they miscalculated my mother’s quiet determination but also the sway of their own emotions.
” First, the baby arrived ,eight pounds,two ounces,
( the only reference to his birth in his entire long winded autobiography )
with ten toes and ten fingers and hungry for food. “
“ What in the heck were they supposed to do ?”