[muawiyah]

The statement about "race" is simply not true. See some of my posts for a fuller assessment.

In 1961 you could get almost anything since it was up to the local authorities to decide what race you were, and what a race actually was.

The federal government had not yet imposed their nonsense system on everyone.

[ladyjane]

I bed somebody got ahold of a copy of Obama’s birth certificate. Maybe Hillary or McCain.

Remember a few months ago when some contractors were fired at the passport office for looking into passport application files? You have to know they looked into Obama’s file and pulled a Sandy Berger.

[esquirette]

You are right. The race could have been anything but in my years of public records searches I have never seen African. But you are right. It was not standardized then.