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To: curiosity
No. All you have proven is that they COULD have. It's still unlikely that they WOULD have.

You do realize you've been suckered into a wholly different question than you began with?

The title question of this thread was pretty straightforward: why Mombasa? Where did the idea that Obama was born in the city of Mombasa come from? Why would anyone in Obama's family ever make the trip to Mombasa for childbirth, instead of either of the more logical Kenyan locales?

Most everyone avoided addressing either of those questions, and instead tried to shift attention onto other questions. And by playing along, you've now gotten yourself embroiled in the entirely unrelated question of "What kind of planes flew into Nairobi in 1961?" Jet planes also flew to Australia the year I was born. But that's not evidence that my mother flew there on one to give birth to me.

Consequently, by allowing that focus to shift, you've allowed everyone to gloss over the original matter, which was that the Mombasa location was introduced into the eligibility narrative with absolutely no supporting evidence, and that it makes no logical sense whatsoever.

554 posted on 05/13/2010 10:55:46 AM PDT by LorenC
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To: LorenC
Mombasa besides being a port was a tourist attraction in the day.

With Beaches not unlike Hawaii.

Even Tourist Hotels with Air conditioning.

And a quick airplane hop from Nairobi

Via the Local Airline, East African Airways.

564 posted on 05/13/2010 11:37:30 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: LorenC
You do realize you've been suckered into a wholly different question than you began with?

Yeah. I know. Birthers are pretty effective at doing that to me. I'd probably make a lousy lawyer :)

And by playing along, you've now gotten yourself embroiled in the entirely unrelated question of "What kind of planes flew into Nairobi in 1961?"

Yeah, I know. It also cost me $100. It's hard to stay on topic when the people you're interacting with are constantly trying to change the subject.

Consequently, by allowing that focus to shift, you've allowed everyone to gloss over the original matter, which was that the Mombasa location was introduced into the eligibility narrative with absolutely no supporting evidence, and that it makes no logical sense whatsoever

Thanks for bringing the thread back on track. It has wasted way too much of my time.

570 posted on 05/13/2010 11:49:17 AM PDT by curiosity
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