The Kenya theory is very weak. It has very little supporting evidence and it makes no sense at all. The possibility that Barry was born in Canada is much more robustly backed up by the available circumstantial evidence. Stanley Ann had TWO relatives living in NorthWest Washington state at this time. In 1961, it was a standard practice to send unmarried pregnant girls to live with their relatives until after the baby was born. The Salvation army also happened to run various homes for unwed mothers out of Vancouver during this period.
It certainly makes a lot more sense that Barry could have been born in Canada than it does for him to have been born in Kenya. No one could afford the trip to Kenya and back, and if no one was paying for it, they didn't go! (Barack Obama Sr. had to pick pineapples that year just to make ends meet.)
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/03/ins-record-found-showing-certificate-of.html
Jack Cashill points out that Susan Blake originally told Michael Patrick Leahy of the Seattle Times in 2008 that Dunham was going to Kenya (with the 3 week old) not Cambridge to be with her husband.
Dunham didn’t seem to have a problem coming up with money to get around. Probably funded by her parents.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/m-what_does_composite_girl_tell_us_about_obama.html
In April 2008, Botkin told the Seattle Times that Ann was excited about her husband’s plans to return not to Harvard, but to Kenya. Botkin said the same thing to writer Michael Patrick Leahy, who interviewed her early in the summer of 2008. Here, too, Botkin adds a clarifying detail: “[Dunham] left [Hawaii] just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby.”
As Botkin acknowledged in several interviews, she never saw her friend again. The visit at Botkin’s mother’s house had to be in 1961, a year before Barack Sr. left for Harvard. Dunham arrived in Seattle in August 1961 and stayed for a year, enrolling at the University of Washington. Obama would not see Obama Sr. until he was ten.
http://cashill.com/intellect_fraud/how_washington_post.htm
Maraniss also appears to have overlooked an April 2008 article in the Seattle-Times, which reported, “Susan Blake [Botkin], another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband’s plans to return to Kenya.” Note that the year was 1961, and the destination was Kenya.
Maraniss likewise missed a video interview with Botkin that had been posted online in which she specifically placed the date of Dunham’s visit as an “afternoon in 1961 when Barry was just a few weeks old.” She even claims to have “changed Barry’s diaper and showed [Dunham] how to do it.”
On August 23, 2008, a day before the Maraniss article appeared, author Michael Patrick Leahy interviewed Botkin by phone for his 2008 book, “What Does Barack Believe.”
Again, Botkin placed the visit in late summer 1961. “She left just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby,” Botkin said of Dunham. “He was just 3 weeks old.”
Another high school friend, Maxine Box, confirmed for Leahy what Botkin was saying. The year Dunham showed up in Seattle was 1961. The baby was a newborn. And Dunham was on her way to see her husband, but Box was not sure where. Both Botkin and Box told Leahy they never saw Dunham again.
On this point, Botkin was very specific. Leahy reports that
Botkin sent Dunham an invitation to her own 1964 wedding to her last known address in Hawaii, but it was returned with no known forwarding address.
Instead of the hard data confirming Dunham’s presence in Seattle, Maraniss relied heavily on Susan Botkin and Maxine Box, but he either seriously misinterpreted their testimony or he massaged it to suit his own purposes.
As Maraniss acknowledged, Obama Sr. left Hawaii for the mainland and Harvard in June 1962, nearly a year after Barry’s birth in August 1961. This much is true. According to Maraniss, there was an “unresolved part of the story,” namely whether Dunham tried to follow Obama Sr. to Cambridge.
http://mobile.wnd.com/2012/03/will-wapo-author-un-tell-obamas-story/
“Something happened in Cambridge, and Stanley Ann returned to Seattle. [Her friends] saw her a few more times, and they thought she even tried to enroll in classes at the University of Washington, before she packed up and returned to Hawaii.”
Despite the fact that he was writing a lengthy biographical piece two months before the election, Maraniss made a hash of it. He has Ann following Obama Sr. to Harvard in the fall of 1961, but he did not enroll there until the fall of 1962.
By this time, too, Blake seems to have changed her story. She told Maraniss that Dunham was on her way to Cambridge, not Kenya, as she had told the Seattle Times months earlier.