I am so sick of seeing people use the birth announcement in the newspaper as “proof”. In my town and all across the country, we know that reporters used to go to the local registers and post this stuff in the paper. We also know that Hawaii allowed people to register births of babies not born there. So if his birth occurred elsewhere but was registered there, it would be posted in the paper along with all the others. Why is no one questioning the number on the COLB Obama posted. It has 1961 while the twins born the next day had 61 without the 19. That makes no sense to me. The numbering system would not change. Also, I will never believe that a birth certificate would list “African” for the father. Registrars follow formats laid out by agencies higher up. They don’t just type whatever they want. They have certain choices and that wasn’t one of them. Also, having had two children, I know that I would not have flown thousands of miles with my newborn baby in the first few weeks. That is the clincher for me. I think Ann gave birth in Canada or Washington state. She was enrolled in classes there within weeks of the birth not in Hawaii.
I've always wondered on this point.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that BHO’s mother gave birth in Hawaii. If she and BHO Sr. were at the hospital, one of them would likely fill out the info form that the hospital would use for BC information. Likely BHO Sr. as mom would be busy at that moment...
Would a Kenyan in 1961, filling out such a form, refer to himself as a “Negro”?
This is well before my time, but it doesn't seem surprising to me that a Kenyan would refer to himself as an “African” rather than a “Black” or a “Negro”.
I have this perception of “Negro” being a American term.
Kind of how if I read “Colored” I'd think America. But if I read “fuzzy-wuzzy” I'm thinking British....
Entirely a question of perception, I suppose.
Neither of us would have traveled at all with a newborn baby (in cloth diapers, no less!), and certainly not a teenager alone, by plane, international flight in 1961, when few people flew. Where was the money for a very expensive fare?
The Canadian birth makes sense, as does a date different from the one he’s claimed. After all, we have no reason to accept the Aug. 1961 date except 0’s word, and that’s not worth much right now, as far as I’m concerned.
That birthdate may, indeed, be why all the school records are scrubbed. As long as nobody knows for sure when he was born, it makes it much harder to look for any documentation of the birth.
We need to disregard everything 0 has told us about his background and start over, using ONLY provable facts. Which means starting with a fairly blank slate.