Snopes is not and never has been the repository of truth. Notice they conveniently leave out that the preceding numbers issued before Obama’s as well as the ones following it were all from Connecticut.
>>Snopes is not and never has been the repository of truth. Notice they conveniently leave out that the preceding numbers issued before Obama’s as well as the ones following it were all from Connecticut.<<
I’ve found snopes to be very useful when someone sends one of those “urban legend” sort of emails. Snopes usually has a very good discussion on what part is true and what part is false, often including some decent info on how the false parts got going in the first place.
And snopes explained the Connecticut part. You would expect all of the Connecticut applications to start with 042. Their explanation covered how Obama could have ended up with one due to a simple misreading of his application, or an easy-to-make type. It might not have happened, but it’s a decent explanation of how it could have happened.
We’ve got way better ways to go after Obama than this tin-foil-hat stuff that WND and Newsmax are alway so prone to pushing.