“It’s an insult to his mother”
Stanley Ann Dunham
The utter lack of disrespect that some birthers show towards the president’s deceased mother appalls me, particularly the frequent claims that she is a “liar”. I was raised not to disrespect anyone’s mother, and particularly not a departed one, and I was taught not to call anyone a liar unless I was pretty damned sure it was true. What compounds the insult is that there is no evidence whatever to support the nasty speculation.
The New York Times article earlier this month, carried comments from Congressman Neil Abercrombie.
… Mr. Abercrombie, who has represented Hawaii for nearly two decades in Congress, was a close friend of Mr. Obama’s parents, who were students at the University of Hawaii in 1961. The president’s father, Barack H. Obama Sr., was from Kenya, but Mr. Abercrombie said the suggestion that the Obama baby was born in Africa is an absurd impossibility.
“He was born in Kapiolani Hospital, right down the street from where I lived,” Mr. Abercrombie said. “They had no money. I can’t imagine how they would get to Kenya. It makes no sense at all. It’s an insult to his mother.”
I agree.
Obama Birth Announcement False (UPDATED!) (Updated Again!!)
…says Mississippi PI in a signed, but not notarized “affidavit.”
Mississippi investigator Jorge L. Baro says that he swore (although the notary’s signature is blank) that some unnamed people he hired told him that they had talked to Beatrice Arakaki in Hawaii and that she told them that 47 years ago in 1961 there was no black baby living next door to her at the address in the Sunday Advertiser announcement of Obama’s birth.
#6085 Kalanianaole circa 1961 - Honolulu Advertiser
According to the Honolulu Advertiser, it was practice to get birth announcements from the Health Department via a news service, not from private submissions, as evidenced by that fact that two independent newspapers had the same announcement with the same announcements for other infants before and after. The announcement had to come from the Health Department, via the birth registration. So what gives? Did they live there or not? It all becomes clear with careful reading and examination of the evidence.
Option A
Let’s assume for a moment that everything that Baro says about the interview is true (but not perhaps complete). (more…)
What does Strunk know, and when did he know it?
US Passport
Strunk v. United States Department of State is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed late last year. Christopher Earl Strunk since amended his complaint to include the Department of Homeland Security. (The amended complaint file is rather large, so I haven’t uploaded it here.)
The essence of the matter is that Strunk had requested on November 22, 2008 passport and travel records for Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama. The Department of State (DOS) informed Strunk that the travel records were lodged with the Department of Homeland Security providing him with contact information there, and that all records for Barack Obama were exempted from FOIA. DOS further accepted Strunk’s request for information on passport records for Stanley Ann Dunham and assigned him a case number. (more…)
Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate Doesn’t Really Say He Was Born in Hawaii
The facts: In June of 2008, an image of a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth for Barack Hussein Obama II appeared on a web site called the Daily Kos. Similar images would appear at Barack Obama’s Fight the Smears web site, along with FactCheck.org and Politifact.com. The document says on its face that the Location of Barack Obama’s birth is Honolulu.
Location of Birth
