“Then there’s the sheer impluasibility that a pregnant American college girl would travel to Kenya in 1961”.
I’ll give you implausibility. Here we have an event, the election of the first black president of United States, allegedly born in Hawaii, a state of the Union, and not one single living human being has come forward and claimed they were present at this most historic birth. 1961 is not that distant in time so that a nurse, Dr., or midwife (even if they were in their mid-thirties they would likely be alive or had relatives whom they had spoken to) in a hospital where Hussein was born would not have remembered a mixed race baby born to an extremely young mother who became POTUS. They would certainly come forward to claim their place in history, and wouldn’t somebody on Hussein’s staff seek them out for a photo opportunity. Unless of course it never happened on United States soil.
The only people claiming to be present at Hussein’s birth live in Kenya, and claim he was born there. One of them is his paternal grandmother
You know, I listened to that tape. I never heard her say that. All I heard anyone say was "he was born in America" and "he was born in Hawaii".
I’ve said this before on another thread - I’ve delivered babies and I don’t remember any details about mothers or babies from 20 years ago, only the medical issues. A 17 year old giving birth is not memorable - a 13 year old is, and I delivered a few of those and don’t recall anything about them, either. You are expecting feats of memories from medical personnel that are very unusual.
It’s different in a small community where the docs and nurses repeatedly encounter mother and children. In a large city, unless there is a continuing relationship, people won’t remember.