Obama's mother known here as "uncommon"

By Jonathan Martin Seattle Times staff reporter

For four years on Mercer Island, Stanley Ann Dunham impressed her high-school classmates with a wickedly sharp wit. She was an "intellectual rebel" with a fledgling beatnik sensibility that would eventually take her around the globe. But shortly after high-school graduation in 1960 she vanished from the Seattle area, and would have been little more than a foggy memory to most — if not for a son she had just a year later: Barack Obama.

Now that Obama's unique personal history has become part of his rising political profile, his mother's formative years in the Pacific Northwest are a little-noticed chapter. Even Obama glosses over the chapter in a single line in his best-selling biography. Dunham, who died of ovarian cancer in 1995, is described as the "most dominant figure" in Obama's life. Obama's half-sister says Dunham remembered her teen years on Mercer Island so fondly that she wanted to attend college in Seattle. Instead, her parents took her after high school to Hawaii, where Obama was born. "Her life showed a deep respect for intellectual rigor and perhaps an uncommon sense of learning," said Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives in Hawaii.

Now that Obama is leading the fight to become the Democratic nominee for president, Dunham's classmates are remembering her again. In the Eisenhower era of poodle skirts and Ozzie and Harriet, she preferred jazz, refused to baby-sit and viewed education — not marriage — as the key to her future. Few of them saw Dunham after she left for Hawaii. But they still see much of her in her famous son: her eyes, her chin, her broad-minded globalism, her intellectual rigor. "You see her in his expressions, how he handles adulation," said Marylyn Prosser of Ketchum, Idaho, a former classmate. "I get a sense he is grounded, and that reminds me of his mother."

Growing up on the island

As Obama has climbed the political ladder, one particular anecdote about his mother is repeated: that her father, Stanley Armour Dunham, Obama's grandfather, gave his only child his first name because he wanted a boy. Stanley Ann went to elementary school in Kansas before her father, a smooth-talking salesman, moved his family to Seattle in pursuit of work. The family rented an apartment in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood in 1955, and Stanley Ann Dunham attended Eckstein Middle School, according to school records. The Seattle area, thanks largely to Boeing, was enjoying a postwar boom, and suburbs were growing as fast as the Douglas firs could be cut. The Dunhams moved to Mercer Island in 1956 to get their daughter into the newly opened high school there. They rented unit 219 of the Shorewood Apartments, a huge new complex for middle-class families.

Dunham's father worked at the downtown Seattle furniture store Standard-Grunbaum and his wife commuted to Bellevue to work as an escrow officer, according to phone directories of the time. As a suburb, Mercer Island was still in its infancy. The 1950 census counted about 5,000 people, almost all white. Sanctioned deer hunts had stopped just a few years before the Dunhams arrived. (SITE NOTE: The furniture store where Stanley Dunham worked, “Standard-Grunbaum Furniture at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Pine Street” was located down the street from the Regional Headquarters of the Communist Party USA. (Source: McCauley's World.)

Stanley Ann Dunham's classmates, many of whom had lived on the island their whole lives, viewed Dunham as a novelty. "She had a really ironic sense of humor, sort of downbeat and she was a great observer," said Iona Stenhouse, of Seattle, a former classmate. "There was an arched eyebrow, or a smile on her face about the immaturity of us all. I felt at times that Stanley thought we were a bit of a provincial group."

Intellectual clique

The diversions for Dunham and her class were solidly 1950s vintage: sock hops and sleepovers and the song "Rockin' Robin." Dunham's father drove her and friends to boys basketball games, and would embarrass his daughter with his noisy cheering. Dunham gravitated toward an intellectual clique. According to former classmate Chip Wall, she caught foreign films at Seattle's only art-house theater, the Ridgemont, and trekked to University District coffee shops like the Encore to talk about jazz, the value of learning from other cultures and the "very dull Eisenhower-ness of our parents." "We were critiquing America in those days in the same way we are today: The press is dumbed down, education is dumbed down, people don't know anything about geography or the rest of the world," said Wall, who later taught at Mercer Island High and is now retired in Seattle. "She was not a standard-issue girl. You don't start out life as a girl with a name like Stanley without some sense you are not ordinary."

One respite was found in a wing of Mercer Island High called "anarchy alley." Jim Wichterman taught a wide-open philosophy course that included Karl Marx. Next door, Val Foubert taught a rigorous dose of literature, including Margaret Mead's writings on homosexuality. Those classes prompted what Wichterman, now 80 and retired in Ellensburg, called "mothers' marches" of parents outraged at the curriculum. Dunham thrived in the environment, Wichterman said. "As much as a high-school student can, she'd question anything: What's so good about democracy? What's so good about capitalism? What's wrong with communism? What's good about communism?" Wichterman said. "She had what I call an inquiring mind."

She also showed her politics, wearing a campaign button for Adlai Stevenson. And despite flirting with atheism, she went to services at East Shore Unitarian church, a left-leaning congregation in Bellevue.

"Blazing new trails"

As graduation neared for the class of 1960, Dunham had hoped to join many of her classmates at the University of Washington, and was also accepted to the University of Chicago, according to Obama's memoir, the best-selling "Dreams from My Father." But her father was restless. He found sales work in Hawaii, then newly a state. He insisted his daughter, who wouldn't turn 18 until November, attend the University of Hawaii, Soetoro-Ng said. "She always said [Mercer Island] was a great place to grow up," said Soetoro-Ng, who now teaches at the University of Hawaii. "She found it a nice mix between civilization and the rural expression and nature."

Dunham hadn't had a boyfriend in high school, according to Maxine Box, her best friend at the time. So Box and others were stunned when Dunham wrote them to say she'd married the University of Hawaii's first African student, a Kenyan named Barack Obama. She gave birth to Barack Obama Jr. in August 1961. "We could see Stanley, with her good grades and intelligence, going to college, but not marrying and having a baby right away," said Box, a retired teacher in Bellevue. "I can't think of anything she said or did that would lead to such a radical thing. At that time, you practically crossed the street if you saw a black man and a white woman. Black and white didn't go together at that time."

Susan Blake, another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband's plans to return to Kenya. "We all had June Cleaver as our role models, and she was blazing new trails for herself," said Blake, a former Mercer Island city councilwoman. The marriage was brief. By 1962, Dunham had returned to Seattle as a single mother, enrolling in the UW for spring quarter and living in an apartment on Capitol Hill. But friends said she got overwhelmed and returned to her family in Hawaii, and formally divorced Obama Sr. in 1964. (SITE NOTE: She actually enrolled in the UW for the AUTUMN 1961 term -- meaning it was shortly after Obama Jr.'s birth.)

Over the next three decades, she became a well-traveled anthropologist, working in Indonesia, Pakistan and elsewhere."The life that Stanley chose to live after she left [Mercer Island] is indicative of the fact that Stanley thought about what else was out there," said former classmate Stenhouse. "She was ready for having different experiences." (Source: Seattle Times.)

(SITE NOTE: There is a disparity here that if she moved to Hawaii in Jun 1960 after graduation, why did she start the University of Hawaii six weeks late in Sept 1960? It would most likely that they took two months to settle other details for the move. As far as we know, there was no house to sell as they rented. We also find it hard to believe the Seattle Times story that Stanley Dunham would NOT tell Ann Dunham of the move -- meaning that it may have been short-notice, but it was a planned move. We question why the mainstream media has NOT attempted to find the identity of this key player in Obama's story -- nor the name of the furniture store as there were not that many in Honolulu at the time.)

(SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT As of this date, we still have not been able to identify the furniture store the senior Dunham worked at in Hawaii -- one at which Stanley Dunham's boss, supposedly an alumnus of Punahou, later would intercede to let Obama enter Punahou on a "scholarship" which still is unknown as to the type. This benefactor -- the mysterious boss -- is a complete mystery -- and one which the mainstream media in Honolulu has refused to pursue. This creates the question of whether this is just another Obama myth that Obama perpetuates to cover holes in his story.

We theorize that no such alumnus existed. Madelyn Dunham had just been promoted to a VP position in the Bank of Hawaii in 1970 and would be in a prestigious position -- with finances to support Obama with housing and supplemental funds. Madelyn Dunham may have been the one to intercede for Obama (Barry Soetoro) as her grandson. However, as Obama (Barry Soetoro) was Indonesian. He arrived from Indonesia alone in 1970. Obama (Barry Soetoro) would have an interview in Autumn 1970 and be accepted. Punahou would sign the I-20A-B form that would be used to get Obama (Barry Soetoro) an F-1 visa. Obama did NOT return to Indonesia and the F-1 visa was approved via mail. Because Obama (Barry Soetoro) was under 13 years of age, no interview was required to get the F-1 visa. The choice of a PRIVATE school allowed Obama (Barry Soetoro) to have a visa until he completed his education in America -- versus an F-1 visa to a PUBLIC school which was only 12 months. Obama attended on a "scholarship" and the only one that makes sense -- given Madelyn Dunham's ability to assist with the tuition -- is that Obama (Barry Soetoro) was presented as an INDONESIAN foreign student and Lolo and Ann Soetoro's income would qualify Obama (Barry Soetoro) for foreign student tuition assistance -- that would remain throughout his Punahou years and beyond. (SEE Indonesian Passport Issues for details on how this scam worked and was used by Obama from 1970-1995.)

Late in the summer of 1960, at the start of his second year and the beginning of her first, Obama and Stanley Ann Dunham met in a beginning Russian class. He was 25; she was not yet 18. She called him "Bear-ick," too. He called her Anna. Decades later, Ann would tell her son a story about their first date that he then depicted in his memoir "Dreams From My Father." "He asked me to meet him in front of the university library at one. I got there and he hadn't arrived, but I figured I'd give him a few minutes. It was a nice day, so I laid out on one of the benches, and before I knew it I had fallen asleep. An hour later, he showed up with a couple of friends. I woke up and three of them were standing over me and I heard him saying, serious as can be ... 'You see gentlemen, I told you she was a fine girl, and that she would wait for me.' "

Recounting the scene long after the fact, knowing how the relationship would end, the son was at his most lyrical. "My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people in her head, flattered by my father's attention, confused and alone, trying to break out of the grip of her own parents' lives. The innocence she carried that day, waiting for my father, had been tinged with misconceptions, her own needs, but it was a guileless need, one without self-consciousness, and perhaps that's how any love begins." This was the prelude to the beginning of the second Barack Obama, the hapa, and in the narrative he creates about his mother, here, as always after, he writes with the sensibility not so much of a son as of an acute if sympathetic psychologist. (Source: David Maraniss, Washington Post.)

This may be a fictionalized memory as Obama Sr's close friends do not remember this event. Only Neil Abercrombie mentions seeing her at some weekend events, while others do not remember her or Obama Jr at all. In fact, prior to his leaving for Harvard, Obama Sr.'s close friends state that he did NOT mention Ann Dunham nor Obama Jr. at all. (SITE NOTE: The Obama "family" was part of the Obama folklore-fiction. Ann Dunham left for Washington State to start classes there 15 days after Obama was born -- and did not return until after Obama Sr. had left Hawaii.)

The first African student at the University of Hawai'i, Barack Hussein Obama, reached Honolulu 11 months before Stanley Ann Dunham and her parents got there from Seattle. He was on the first airlift of Kenyan students brought to study at U.S. universities as part of a program organized by Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya and funded primarily by hundreds of American supporters. At the time, there were no colleges in Kenya, which was in the last throes of British colonialism. His arrival in Honolulu was announced in a newspaper article under the headline "Young Men from Kenya, Jordan and Iran Here to Study at U.H." Obama told the reporter that he grew up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, in East Africa, and was a member of the Luo tribe. He said he had worked as an office clerk in Nairobi for several years to save money for college and settled on UH "when he read in an American magazine about its racial tolerance." Other accounts have said he went to Hawai'i because it was the only U.S. university to offer him a scholarship, but that appears unlikely, based on this contemporaneous report. In the newspaper story, Obama said he had enough money to stay in Hawai'i only for two semesters unless he applied for a scholarship. (Source: David Maraniss, Washington Post.)

During his time in Hawai'i, the elder Obama seemed adept at walling off various aspects of his life. He eventually told Ann about a former marriage in Kenya but said he was divorced, which she would discover years later was a lie. While the scene in the book includes two friends who were with him when he arrived late for a first date with Ann, few members of the snack bar crowd remember the Obama-Dunham relationship. Hal Abercrombie said he never saw them together. Zane, who left the island for a spell in 1961, could not recall Ann from those days but had precise memories of Obama. Neil Abercrombie did remember her appearing at some of the weekend gatherings. Obama was such a strong personality, he said, that he could see how the young woman was awed and overwhelmed by him.

"She was a girl, and what I mean by that is she was only 17 and 18, just out of high school. And he brought her at different times. She mostly observed because she was a kid. Everybody there was pretty high-powered grad-student types." Before the end of her first semester, Ann learned she was pregnant. The jolt that most parents might feel at such news from a teenage daughter was intensified for the Dunhams by the fact that the father was Obama. Madelyn Dunham has declined requests for interviews this year, but a few years ago she talked to the Chicago Tribune's David Mendell, who was researching his biography, "Obama: From Promise to Power."

Dunham, known for her practicality and skepticism in a family of dreamers, told Mendell that Stanley Ann had always been stubborn and nonconformist, and often did startling things, but none were more stubborn or surprising than her relationship with Obama. When Mendell pressed her about Obama, she said she did not trust the stories the Kenyan told. Prodding further, the interviewer said that Obama had "a great deal of charm" and that his father had been a medicine man. "She raised her eyebrows and nodded to herself," Mendell wrote of Madelyn. "'He was ...' she said with a long pause, 'strange.' She lingered on the a to emphasize 'straaaaaange.'" (Source: David Maraniss, Washington Post.)

Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother. Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960. A more accurate version of the story would begin not with the Kennedys but with a Kenyan nationalist leader named Tom Mboya, who traveled to the United States in 1959 and 1960 to persuade thousands of Americans to support his efforts to educate a new African elite. Mboya did not approach the Kennedys for financial support until Obama Sr. was already studying in Hawaii.

Mboya, a charismatic politician, was assassinated in 1969. His daughter Susan, now living in Ohio, said the mass airlifts of Kenyan students to the United States had a "huge" impact on the young African nation, which gained its independence from Britain in 1963. She cited a University of Nairobi study that showed that 70 percent of top Kenyan officials after independence, including Obama Sr., were products of the American program. In the late 1950s, there was no university in Kenya, and educational opportunities for Africans were limited. The British colonial government opposed Mboya's efforts to send talented young Kenyans to the United States for an education, arguing that there was a perfectly good university, Makerere College, in neighboring Uganda. The U.S. State Department supported the British and turned down Mboya's requests for assistance.

During his 1959 trip to the United States, the 29-year-old Mboya raised enough money for scholarships for 81 young Kenyans, including Obama Sr., with the help of the African-American Students Foundation. Records show that almost 8,000 individuals contributed. Early supporters included baseball star Jackie Robinson, who gave $4,000, and actors Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.

There was enormous excitement when the Britannia aircraft took off for New York with the future Kenyan elite on board. After a few weeks of orientation, the students were dispatched to universities across the United States to study subjects that would help them govern Kenya after the departure of the British. Obama Sr. was interested in economics and was sent to Hawaii, where he met, and later married, a Kansas native named Ann Dunham. Barack Jr. was born in August 1961.

The former executive director of the African-American Students Foundation, Cora Weiss, said some of the money provided by the Kennedys was used to pay off old debts and subsidize student stipends. Even though Obama Sr. arrived the previous year, he and other members of the 1959 cohort benefited indirectly from Kennedy family support. (Source: Washington Post: Michael Dobbs.)

(SITE NOTE: Obama Jr. during his presidential campaign overstated the involvement of President Kennedy in the airlift of his father. Obama's Selma speech offers a very confused chronology of both the Kenya student program and the civil rights movement. Relating the story of how his parents met, Obama said: "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Junior was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama." After bloggers pointed out that the Selma bridge protest occurred four years after Obama's birth, a spokesman explained that the senator was referring to the civil rights movement in general, rather than any one event.)

Obama, Sr. was simply one of the Kenyan students on a student visa, provided by the State Department through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. He was a member of Tom Mboya's "African Airlift." This took place during the high heat of the Nixon-Kennedy President Campaign. Eisenhower was President, and his Secretary of State was Christian Herter, former Governor of Massachusetts. The Kennedy Foundation, which paid the airfare, was run by Sargent Shriver, Arnold Schwartzeneiger's father-in law. Philip H. Coombs was a Deputy in the Kennedy State Department. These students were poor, and in need of financial aid. They were told to live off the land. (Source:Time Magazine, 1961.)

Barak Obama (center) and friends at a party given by Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the early 1960's --From left to right: Arnie Nachmanoff, (Former Under Secretary of the Treasury, and host), Suzie Nachmanoff (host), Barak Obama (Kenya), Bob Ruenitz (Fromer Senior State Department official, USA), and Dorothy (USA) (Suzie Nachmanoff)


Barak Obama and his friends at a party hosted by Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff, in the early 1960's, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -- Lower Photo; Taken in Hawaii in 1961 at Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff's house (Pearl Harbor): from left to right: Kiri Tith (then Cambodia), Kitaichi (Japan), Marda (USA), Ichiro (Japan), Suzie Nachmanoff (Host, USA), Dave (USA), Kunio (Japan), Bob (USA), Rajapakse (Sri Lanka), Barak Obama senior (Kenya), Anne (USA) (Suzie Namchmanoff)

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Remembering my friend Barak Obama

I met Barak, for the first time in the courses in economics that we took together at the University of Hawaii, in the early 1960’s. It was not difficult to spot Barak, as he was a rare African student on the Campus at the University of Hawaii, in Manoa Valley, Honolulu.

His easy-going manner, especially his infectious smile, and his proud bearing struck me the most. He was always very inquisitive and active in class discussions and after classes as well.

Although he was not an East-West Center grantee, he was always with us, especially at a Guest House owned and operated by the Asia foundation, situated on the top of road leading to Manoa valley. Atherton House was a place where most East-West Center grantees gathered for a drink or a chat.

Barak and I were a part of a small group of foreign students who participated in group discussions in various places (Churches, sinagogues, junior colleges) around the campus and in town. Those discussions centered on the role and impact of former Soviet Union and China had in the developing countries. Barak, was more hopeful than I was about the role and the influence of these two major Communist countries in the developing nations in the world, because I had the opportunity to study in Europe, and in France, especially, I was more aware of the nature of communism than Barak was.

In these debates, Barak was always very eloquent, and enthusiastic. We often were not on the same side, when discussing Communism in the developing countries. In our disagreement, Barak was always very gracious and fair. He was a very good listener which helped a great deal in making those discussions more constructive and pleasant

Finally, by chance when I was a staff member of the IMF, one day, a colleague of mine who led an IMF mission to Kenya in the early 1980's, told me that he had met a government official named Barak Obama who said he was a classmate of mine in Hawaii. I knew it was the same Barak who was my classmate at the University of Hawaii. Needless to say that I was very happy to finally be able to be in contact again with Barak, after more than ten year of silence. My IMF colleague had given me Barak’s telephone number and I immediately called him in Nairobi. We had a long conversation and we were able to talk to each other a few more times until one day, when I called him and his secretary told me over the phone that he had passed away of an accident. I was shocked and sad to hear the bad news. That was the time I had talked to Barak, in the early 1980’s.

Barak was indeed a very special human being, with a lot of dignity and character. He was a very engaging, gracious, warm, and smart person. That is how I remember my friend Barak Obama.

Washington DC. January 2006

Naranhkiri Tith Ph.D. (Source: Why I Support Obama: Naranhkin Tith.)

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Testimony by Bob Ruenits


Testimony by Bob Craft

Oct-Nov 1960: Ann Dunham conceives Obama Jr. -- based on a full-term pregnancy. Obama weighed eight pounds, two ounces when he was born on August 4, 1961 (p. 22 of Dreams from My Father), so we can assume he went close to full term, or nine months. Nine months before Obama’s birth would be early November 1960, about three to four weeks before Ann Dunham’s 18th birthday on November 29, 1960.


Timeline (World Net Daily)

This causes many to wonder about the circumstances because it seems out of character with what is known of her during her high school years in Mercer Island, WA. Ann Dunham was no raving beauty and during her high school years she did not go out on dates and had no boyfriend -- instead hanging out with her girlfriends. To be suddenly pregnant four months after her graduation is certainly out of character. That her choice would be a black man is also strange. Her early childhood is from segregationist Kansas -- followed by her middle school and high school years were on Mercer Island -- where the 1950 census counted about 5,000 people, almost all white. Regardless of Obama Sr's "charm," he certainly would not be the first choice for a boyfriend given her background in white communities. Remember this was 1960 when 22 states still banned interracial marriage and even in Washington State, a black-white relationship would cause people to walk across the street.

Dunham hadn't had a boyfriend in high school, according to Maxine Box, her best friend at the time. So Box and others were stunned when Dunham wrote them to say she'd married the University of Hawaii's first African student, a Kenyan named Barack Obama. She gave birth to Barack Obama Jr. in August 1961. "We could see Stanley, with her good grades and intelligence, going to college, but not marrying and having a baby right away," said Box, a retired teacher in Bellevue. "I can't think of anything she said or did that would lead to such a radical thing. At that time, you practically crossed the street if you saw a black man and a white woman. Black and white didn't go together at that time." (Source: Seattle Times.)

AP Issues Chester Arthur Propaganda To Protect Obama. (17 Aug 2009)

Today the AP issued a story titled “Obama Birthplace Flap Evokes Arthur Debate”. The story makes an analogy between the Obama birth certificate issue and the controversy surrounding Chester Arthur’s birthplace. The story contains a lie. It states that Chester Arthur never publicly addressed the issue of Hinman’s allegations that he was born in Canada. But Arthur did specifically address these issues in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper.

However, AP and MSNBC won’t tell you that because Arthur was caught lying about his parents heritage in those newspaper interviews. He was lying to cover up the fact that Hinman was correct – Chester Arthur was a British subject – but for a different reason than where he was born.

AP and MSNBC forgot to mention that Chester Arthur’s father William didn’t become a naturalized citizen of the US until 1843 – 14 years after old Chester was born. This means that Chester Arthur was not a natural born citizen since at the time of his birth he was a subject of Great Britain. These facts as to Chester Arthur’s failure to meet the Constitutional requirement were first reported at this blog back in December ‘08.

Please see that report, Historical Breakthrough – Proof: Chester Arthur Concealed He Was A British Subject At Birth.

No main stream media outlet has reported this historical discovery and as we can see by the AP piece today, objective reporting has been replaced by propaganda. AP reported as follows:

Never addressed allegation

Democrats, meanwhile, hired a lawyer named Arthur Hinman who sought to discredit Arthur, claiming he was born in Dunham, Quebec, about 47 miles north of Fairfield. Hinman traveled to Vermont and Canada to research Arthur’s past, eventually concluding that Arthur was born in Canada but appropriated the birth records of a baby brother who was born in Fairfield, but died as an infant.

He later incorporated the findings into a book titled “How A British Subject Became President of the United States.” Arthur, who served from 1881 to 1885, never publicly addressed the allegation.

But Arthur did address the issue.

In the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, an article interviewing Chester Arthur about Hinman’s accusations was published on August 13, 1880. In that article, Chester Arthur defended himself as follows:

“My father, the late Rev. William Arthur, D.D., was of Scotch blood, and was a native of the North of Ireland. He came to this country when he was eighteen years of age, and resided here several years before he was married.”

This was another blatant lie. His father emigrated from Ireland to Canada at the age of 22 or 23. William Arthur didn’t come to the United States until sometime between March 1822 – when his first child was born in Dunham, Canada – and March 1824 – when his second child was born in Burlington, Vermont. The youngest he could have been when he came to Vermont was 26.

On August 16, 1880 Chester Arthur told the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper that at the time of his birth, his father was forty years old. Another blatant lie. His father would have been only thirty-three years old when Chester was born.

In that same article he lied that his father settled in Vermont and reiterated the lie that William came here at the age of eighteen. This age discrepancy was exposed in the August 19, 1880 edition of the Brooklyn Eagle in an article written by Hinman .

It was very convenient for Arthur that Hinman kept the focus on the extraordinary and false claim – that Arthur was born abroad – while the more subtle and true eligibility issue stayed hidden in plain site.

AP just published a story that said Arthur never publicly addressed the issue and the stench of a propaganda lie fills the air. We are treading in very dangerous waters, America. History is being controlled by lies.

Didn’t Adolph Hitler say that he who controls the past controls the future? (Source: Natural Born Citizen: Leo Donofrio.)

A point that confuses many people is that ALL "birthers" believe that Obama is an American citizen. No one disputes this fact. However, the sticking point is "What type of American citizen?" He can be a "native citizen" (born on U.S. soil); a "naturalized citizen" (receives citizenship by giving up one's citizenship in another country); and a "dual-citizen" (owes allegiance to TWO countries). The point is that there is only one position in the U.S. that requires one to be a "natural born citizen." That is the President of the United States (and Vice-President) under Article II of the U.S. Constitution. It is a fairly simple concept that in order to be a "natural born citizen" one must qualify by (1) blood and (2) soil. One must be born to TWO U.S. CITIZENS -- by blood -- and BORN ON U.S. CONTROLLED TERRITORY -- by soil. The bad news is that Obama has qualified as only a "native born citizen"; "naturalized citizen"; and "dual-citizen", but he is NOT a "natural born citizen."

(The situation of the "natural born citizen" has only cropped up TWICE. The first was in the case of Chester Alan Arthur -- 21st President of the U.S. (1881-1885) -- who ascended to the Presidency after the assassination of President Garfield in 1881. He was the son of Irish-born preacher William Arthur and Vermont-born Malvina Stone Arthur. Arthur went to great lengths to obscure the fact that his father was NOT a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth -- though he became one later. Most official references list Arthur as having been born in Fairfield in Franklin County, Vermont on October 5, 1829. However, some time in the 1870s Arthur changed it to 1830 to make himself seem a year younger. There has long been speculation that the future president was actually born in Canada and that the family moved to Fairfield later. If Arthur had been born in Canada, some believe that he would not have been a natural-born citizen (interpreting the law to mean that to be a natural-born citizen one must be born on U.S. territory) and would thus have been constitutionally ineligible to serve as vice president or president.

The SECOND case is Obama except in Obama's case, the sticking point is NOT soil (though some dispute that), it is the fact that he has acknowledged that he was born a dual-citizen. This is the other requirement of a natural born citizen -- by blood. He does NOT qualify...but the Congress and Supreme Court have REFUSED to rule on this point...instead side-stepping the issue by stating the litigants have "lack of standing" -- meaning have no reason to file the suit because they have not been harmed. All suits filed by voters were denied based upon this reasoning OR states claiming they do not have jurisdiction over the "natural born citizen" issue -- even though the statements are on their filing applications for candidates. At this point, all suits are aimed at the federal level and attempt to include plaintiffs who (a) have been candidates on the national election ballots (i.e. Alan Keyes); (b) serving state legislators; and (c) active and retired military subject to recall. These eligibility suits are still in the midst of trying to find the "right formula" to get a ruling on the law. Up till Aug 2009, no no federal court has ruled on the issue (instead relying on dismissals based on lack of standing or charging the suits are "frivilous"). Numerous suits are pending.)

Some birthers believe Obama was born in Kenya. If Obama was born outside of the United States, Ann Dunham was too young legally to pass on citizenship, but this is a technicality of only a few months. Reasonably Obama would have obtained a Certificate of Overseas Birth from the U.S. Consulate in Kenya and returned as a "native citizen" -- but he still would NOT be a "natural born citizen." (SITE NOTE: All records dealing with Obama in Kenya were sealed in 2009 by the Kenyan government. The Kenyan government also put a ban on all Obama relatives to keep them from talking to foreign media in 2009. The U.S. State Department passport agency files dealing with Ann Dunham and Barack Obama are sealed. All state birth records in Hawaii were sealed by Gov. Linda Lingle in Sep 2008.)

Another birther theory states that Obama left the U.S. for Indonesia at age 5 or 6 with his mother. If Obama was adopted in Indonesia by his step-father Lolo Soetoro, he returned to the U.S. at age 10 and became a "naturalized citizen." (This is complicated by the fact that the U.S. recognizes dual citizenship, but Indonesia at the time did not. This would mean that Obama was "Barry Soetoro" and would have an Indonesian passport with an S-2 student visa. This is explained further in another section.) (SITE NOTE: All records dealing with Barry Soetoro in Indonesia were sealed by the Indonesian government when Obama became President. All U.S. State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)/ICE records dealing with Barry Obama/Barack Obama are sealed. No INS records of Obama's return to the US in 1970 could be located.)

In all of these cases, there is no question of his being a "native citizen" as his mother was a U.S. citizen. The problem is that the question of "natural born citizen" must be defined by the U.S. Congress -- but they have refused to do so thus far. Instead, they simply pass resolutions stating that someone is a "natural born citizen" -- as was done with John McCain. The question of "natural born citizenship" remains clouded. Because of this, numerous cases have been filed to attempt to get the federal courts to come to a decision whether Obama is a "natural born citizen" or not.

BIRTHER THEORIES ON OBAMA'S PARENTS

(1). Obama Sr. as Biological Father??? THERE ARE DOUBTS. The doubts come from the revelation that the "marriage" between Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham was a sham. Obama's friends (except for Neil Abercrombie) state that Obama never mentioned her. Other facts of the "fairy tale" romance actually when scrutinized do not bear up. The time line shows that the Obama "family" that Obama portrays in his book, never existed. Obama was living in a small room (some say at the Atherton YMCA) and subsisting on a small stipend from patrons. The idea of a worldly Obama Sr would take on ANOTHER wife when he could hardly support himself raises logical doubts. Also how a worldly Obama Sr. -- already with children in Kenya -- would "fall in love" with a homely, unsophisticated white girl and marry her within three-months? It just does not compute. How is that financially-strapped Obama was able to move from his small apartment AFTER he meets Ann Dunham into a house in Kaimuki -- WHILE Ann Dunham resides in a house on Kalanianaole Hwy. This is even more suspicious. Then we have the fact that Ann Dunham departed for Washington state to start classes at the University of Washington on 19 Aug 1961 -- 15 days after Obama's birth. She did not return to Hawaii until AFTER Obama Sr. had departed for Harvard in March 1962 as her spring term classes would not have ended. All appearances seem to indicate that the marriage was a complete sham. There are no photos of Obama Sr and Dunham during her pregnancy. There is no evidence that they cohabitated in the same residence. In fact, we only have Obama's recollections that there was any relationship.

According to the folksy Obama story, one day Ann came home from school and told her parents about an African student she had met at school. They invited him over for dinner. Her father didn't notice when his daughter reached out to hold the man's hand, according to Obama's memoir "Dreams from my Father." Allegedly Obama Sr.'s father was against the marriage because "He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman". Ann Dunham's parents were equally against the marriage because they simply didn't trust Obama. Of course, Obama Sr. was already married to Kezia with two children in Kenya, but the Obama story states that Obama Sr. lied saying he was divorced from Kezia. Despite the objections, on Feb. 2, 1961, several months after they met, Obama's parents got married in Maui.



At the time, Ann was three months pregnant with Barack -- meaning the conception took place WITHIN A MONTH of her entering the University of Hawaii on 26 Sep 1960. She supposedly dropped out of the UH in Nov 1960 after two months to "take care of" Obama Sr. -- meaning she moved in with him. However, reports are that he was living in a small apartment in Manoa -- and another stated he was in the YMCA with Ann Dunham living at home. The timeline gets a little slippery here. When did he moved from a small apartment in Manoa to a house in Kaimuki? How could he afford the cost when Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, provided most of his financial support?

We believe that Obama and Dunham came to a financial arrangement -- one where he publicly "married" Ann Dunham (a sham marriage) thus creating a story of legitimacy for the Obama Jr. -- while Obama Sr. received some funding from the Dunhams. Obama is able to finance his education. Ann Dunham has legitimacy for her child and her "honor" as a married woman is intact; the senior Dunham's reputation with a "married daughter" albeit a half-negro grandson is salvaged -- and Obama in the next year after his graduation in Jun 1962 flies off to Kenya never to be seen again. They get a divorce by mail. Everyone wins.

All we can say at this point is: "We don't know" but we lean towards Obama Sr. NOT being the biological father. Based upon the actions of Ann Dunham to move immediately to Washington state after the birth of Obama Jr., there is sufficient doubt in our minds that Obama might NOT be the biological father. We hypothesize that the birth certificate did NOT have a father listed based upon the circumstances later in 1970-1971. In 1961, Obama might have allowed himself to be the PUBLIC father of Obama Jr. but balked at becoming the LEGAL father. We believe that there was NO marriage -- and he did not allow his name to be on the birth certificate as Obama Jr.'s father. However, in the divorce decree in 1964, Obama Sr. accepted paternity at the same time Ann Dunham swore that there was a "legal marriage." We believe that Ann Dunham could not input Obama's name on the birth certificate using the divorce decree as "proof" in 1964 because it would show that she had perjured herself on the divorce complaint. This would void the divorce decree -- the piece of paper that gave her "respectability." We hypothesize that only later in 1971 did they (Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham) legally enter Obama Sr.'s name on the birth certificate.

Also note that there is approximately four months missing between when Ann Dunham graduated from Mercer Island High School (Jun 1960) and when she entered the UH (26 Sep 1960). There is the potential for another unnamed person being the biological father. The time of conception for Obama Jr. was in late Oct - early Nov being within one month of her entry into the UH. There are serious questions about the Obama-Dunham relationship that we find totally unsatisfactory.

(2). Malcolm X as Biological Father??? REJECTED AS THE TIME-LINE DOES NOT FIT. We reject this idea as Ann Dunham conceived Obama in Oct-late Nov 1961 (based on a full-term birth). Malcolm-X was not in Hawaii at the time. He was active in organizing protests on both coasts at the time. He was in the Seattle area during the October 1961 time-frame, but it is ridiculous to even suggest that the nationally-recognized Malcolm-X would secretly fly to Hawaii just to see Ann Dunham -- an unknown high-school graduate who had never had a boyfriend before -- for some secret tryst. It is too ridiculous to even consider. However, some birthers persist with this theory claiming there is a "family resemblance."

The Atlas Shrugs ran a theory that asserts that Ann Dunham got pregnant by someone in Washington -- and strays afield as their theory alludes to black militants (and even insinuates a dalliance with Malcolm X). (SITE NOTE: Atlas Shrugs denies it is responsible for the Malcom X story: "The "Atlas says that Barack Obama is Malcolm X's love child" charge has gone viral among leftards and lizards. The only problem with it is that it is false. I am not the author of this post, and I posted it because the writer did a spectacular job documenting Obama's many connections with the Far Left. The Malcolm X claim is one minor part of this story, and was of interest to me principally as part of the writer's documentation that Stanley Ann Dunham could not have been where the Obama camp says she was at various times. I do not believe that Barack Obama is Malcolm X's love child, and never did -- but there remain many, many unanswered questions about his early life and upbringing. (Source: Atlas Shrugs.)

The supposition is that the family knew that Ann Dunham was pregnant and moved to Hawaii with its image of racial harmony -- with its "melting pot" image -- so that their grandson would be born in an atmosphere of tolerance. The problem is that (1) the conception took place in Hawaii in October or November 1960 -- NOT in Washington state; and (2) because they did not know of the pregnancy when they moved to Hawaii, it cannot be attributed as a reason for the move. If the move to Hawaii by the senior Dunhams was to tear Ann Dunham away from a black boyfriend in Washington State, it would have failed as Dunham would have simply moved in with him. Though Stanley Ann was accepted at the University of Chicago, her father refused to grant her permission to attend that school. (SITE NOTE: This is part of the Obama lore and nothing can be found to substantiate this claim.) Ann Dunham was still financially dependent upon her parents. There is something missing in this puzzle of why the Dunhams moved to Hawaii after Ann Dunham graduated from Mercer Island High School -- but we haven't found it yet.



Remember that this was the pre-civil rights days. Twenty-two states still banned interracial marriages. The black power movement still had not taken off awaiting the 1970s. Interracial marriages were still openly looked down upon between blacks and whites -- even in the most liberal of areas. The double stigma was that Ann Dunham was to bear a son out-of-wedlock -- and it would be a half-negro child. Unlike the present, in the 1960s there was a different set of values remaining from the "motherhood-and-apple pie" values of the pre-WWII era. It is possible the senior Dunhams felt so much disgrace -- because of their bible-belt upbringing -- that they gave up their good life in Seattle and moved to Hawaii. But this doesn't compute as it was BEFORE Ann Dunham's pregnancy. There must be some other underlying factor for their move where Madelyn Dunham would give up her Bank VP position in Seattle to become an hourly wage bank teller in Hawaii. We suspect the move to Hawaii somehow rotates around Ann Dunham, but we don't know what it is.

We do, however, agree with Atlas Shrugs that there is something wrong with the timeline. Supposedly, Dunham started classes on Sep 26, 1960 at the UH. If Obama was a full term baby, he would have to be conceived somewhere in late October or early November -- one month after she entered the UH. There is nothing to indicate that Barack Obama Sr. was some sort of charismatic playboy at the UH or that Ann Dunham was of loose moral character. In fact, Ann Dunham was the type who did not date in Washington in her high school years. However, if you look at the timeline, Ann Dunham enrolls in the University of Hawaii and meets Obama Sr. in a Russian class. Within a month, she is pregnant and drops out of school to "take care of Obama Sr." in November 1960 -- meaning that they had moved in together. There is something that is definitely strange about this occurrence. First, Obama had claimed that he only had money for "two semesters" tuition upon arrival in 1959 -- but suddenly Obama Sr. has enough money to find an apartment where a hefty deposit is required because he is a "transient" -- a college student -- and downtown Honolulu apartments even in 1960 were very expensive. There are all kinds of things wrong with this scenario that do not fit.

(3). Frank Marshall Davis as Biological Father??? REJECTED FOR COMMON SENSE REASONS. We personally reject this theory because it would be illogical. Multiple sources confirm that Stanley Dunham and Frank Marshall retained an amiable relationship -- meeting in Waikiki nightclubs or in parks where Obama first remembers meeting him. Obama also relates that Marshall frequented his grandparents' apartment and became his mentor. However, from a logical standpoint, no matter how liberal Stanley and Madelyn Dunham were, it seems inconceivable that a FATHER and MOTHER would warmly accept into their home, the man who seduced their daughter, impregnated her with child and forced her into a contrived marriage (if there was one). To even consider this possibility means condemning Madelyn and Stanley Dunham as some sort of perverted people with bohemian ideas of sex and morality. None of the personal accounts of Madelyn and Stanley's lives by coworkers or acquaintances even remotely suggest this. Therefore, we personally reject this theory, though others hold to it.

McCauley's World presents an interesting theory that appeared on his site in Oct 2008. This same theory was parroted by Andy Martin during a radio interview in Oct 2008 and was widely ridiculed. Given the holes in the conception story of Ann Dunham, it is just another of the possibilities. However, the admissions in the book "Sex Rebel: Black" -- published in 1968 -- and the encounter with the young girl, Anne coupled with the admission in the foreword that book was based on actual experience -- does raise some enticing and lurid questions. Unfortunately, the mainstream media deliberately ignored the London Telegraph article and concentrated on deriding Andy Martin comments of Frank Marshall Davis' being Obama's biological father in conjunction with his Hawaii Obama eligibility suit. (SEE Frank Marshall Davis for details.)

Davis's alleged sexual perversion adds a dramatic and alarming element to the controversy. Davis's sexual proclivities were documented in a 1968 pornographic novel, written just two years before Davis became Obama's mentor, which was titled, Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gourmet Gash). Davis wrote the book, which is now generally unavailable, under a pseudonym, Bob Greene.


Frank Marshall Davis


Sex Rebel: Black by Bob Green (Frank Marshall Davis) (1968)

The book, which closely tracks Mr. Davis's life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex. One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr. Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr. Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. In the book he describes how he and his wife would have sex with the girl many times over the course of several weeks. This explosive information, if the character in the book is actually based on Davis's own experiences, would further demonstrate why Obama would want to cover up Davis's true identity in his book, calling him just "Frank." There is no question that Davis wrote the book under the pseudonym of "Bob Greene." John Edgar Tidwell, the editor of other books by Davis, has confirmed this is the case.

In the introduction to Livin' the Blues, a book by Davis that Tidwell edited, Tidwell reveals that Davis left behind after his death an uncompleted manuscript, "The Incredible Waikiki Jungle," which describes how Davis "specialized in sex" during the period 1969-1976. Tidwell also says that Davis wrote another unpublished manuscript called "Mixed Sex Salad." Whether the book Sex Rebel is entirely based on Davis or not, the controversy certainly demonstrates that Davis had a perverted sexual interest. (Source: Texas Darlin' Comments.)

When the Dunham's arrived in 1960 Honolulu, Frank Marshall Davis, fellow Kansan, athiest, Marxist-Communist, writer, poet and jass musician was waiting to greet them. Frank Marshall Davis and Stanley Dunham were drinking buddies and in the local vernacular, "Choomers", or pot heads as we would have called them in my 1960's neighborhood. (London Telegraph.)

It is hard to imagine that young, 17-year-old Stanley Ann Dunham would not have been impressed with the accomplished Davis. He was after all, the imbodiment of all that she had been taught to admire. Davis at this time was 55 years old and married to a 35 year old white sociallite from Chicago. A renowned Communist, athiest, author, journalist, poet, musician and political organizer. To the young Stanley Ann Dunham he must have been the equivalent of a modern era rock star.

Commentators speculate whether Davis might be the reason Stanley Ann Dunham may have told her son, if she told her son, of a desire to attend the University of Chicago. There is no documentation that she ever applied the University of Chicago. Of course the "allegation" that Stanley Ann Dunham had been accepted at the University of Chicago may simply be another example of the "literary license" or just another lie presented by Obama in "Dreams".

Other writers speculate that Frank Marshall Davis may, in fact, be Barack Obama's biological father. (Truth Seeker.)

This speculation seems to be based on three facts.

Fact 1:

That in 1968 Davis published a hard core autobiograpical, pornograpic novel titled Sex Rebel: Black. The novel was published in San Diego in 1968 by Greenleaf Classics under the pseudonym Bob Greene. (London Telegraph.) (SITE NOTE: Amazon.com lists, Sex rebel: black;: Memoirs of a gash gourmet by Bob Greene. Hilariously, "Bob Greene" is listed as the gourmet author of the Oprah Winfrey show. Also this book is about sex, not food.)

Before his death Mr Davis confirmed that he was the author of "Sex Rebel: Black" after a reader had noticed the "similarities in style and phraseology" between the pornographic work and his poetry. (London Telegraph.)

Davis stated, "I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine." In the introduction to "Sex Rebel", Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has "changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences". (London Telegraph.)

In this book Davis notes a sexual liason with "Anne" an underage girl of 13. (Note that Stanley Ann Dunham was 17 when she met Davis).

The book, which closely tracks Mr Davis's life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex.

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he have sex with her. "I'm not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I'd rather not bed a babe under 20. But there are exceptions. I didn't want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life." He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl, "Anne came up many times the next several weeks … She obtained a course in practical sex from experienced and considerate practitioners rather than from ignorant insensitive neophytes….I think we did her a favour, although the pleasure was mutual."

Stanley Ann Dunham arrived in Hawaii in June 1960. Her best friends on Mercer Island state she had no boyfriends while in Highschool. By November 1960 she had conceived Barack Hussein Obama.

Fact 2:

In the Obama family lore, Barrack Hussein Obama Sr., abandoned his family to study at Havard. Having been accepted at both the New School in New York and Harvard, he choose Harvard and abandoned his family rather than study at the New School where scholarship money would have helped support the family. The facts do not support these allegations. Ann Dunham took her new born infant and abandoned Barack Obama, Sr. just weeks after the infants birth. (Christian Faith and Reason.)

Fact 3:

"Dreams" portrays Obama as an exceptionally gifted student in Indonesia. This is not particular accurate. The facts show Obama struggled with the language and was a marginal student, as many students studying in a foreign language would be. At about age 10, Obama was sent back to live with his grandparents in Hawaii. Just prior to Obama's arrival, Frank Marshall Davis divorced his 2nd wife. (1970). (London Telegraph. and Chrisitian Faith and Reason.) (Source: McCauley's World.)

The timeline for Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, reveals an approximately six-and-a-half month interval in which there is no documentation for her whereabouts, from Jan. 31, 1961, when she concluded the fall term at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, until Aug. 19, 1961, when the University of Washington at Seattle documents she was enrolled for extension courses.

Where was Dunham when she was pregnant with Obama, and what did she do?

Her pregnancy apparently was the one time in her life she withdrew from academic pursuits.

Assuming Barack Obama Jr. was born Aug. 4, 1961, and the baby was full-term, Dunham quit the University of Hawaii when she was two months pregnant while her husband-to-be continued his studies at the same school without interruption.

One explanation is that Dunham simply left to focus her energy and time on the coming baby, even though that seems inconsistent with the rapidity with which she returned to university studies, in a distant city, after the birth.

That Dunham dropped out to be a housewife and mother would have represented a very traditional adaptation to what was in reality anything but a traditional marriage or subsequent career and motherhood.

There are no travel or passport records available for Dunham, Barack Obama Sr. or President Obama, so determining whether Dunham remained in Hawaii during these undocumented months is difficult. (Source: World Net Daily.)

Bloggers are raising questions about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's qualifications to be U.S. president, because of the secrecy over his birth certificate and the requirement presidents be "natural-born" U.S. citizens.

Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot, a National Review blog, cited the "unlikely" but still circulating rumor that Obama was born not within the United States, but elsewhere, possibly Kenya.

Geraghty defined the concerns most clearly, stating: "If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen … because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least [f]ive of which had to be after the age of 16.'"

He then points out Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."

Geraghty continues: " (Interestingly, apparently there isn't much paperwork on Obama's parents' marriage. 'Obama: From Promise to Power,' page. 27: 'Obama later confessed that he never searched for the government documents on the marriage, although Madelyn (Obama's maternal grandmother) insisted they were legally married.' Also note that Obama's father apparently was not legally divorced from his first wife back in Kenya at the time, a point of contention that ultimately led to their separation.)" (Source: HubDub.)

Questions over wedding date

The only documentation for Dunham's marriage to Barack Obama Sr. comes from divorce documents that list the marriage date as Feb. 2, 1961.

No wedding certificate for the couple has ever been found or published.

In his autobiography "Dreams from My Father," Obama wrote of his parents wedding: "There's no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride. No families were in attendance; it's not even clear that people back in Kansas were fully informed. Just a small civil ceremony, a justice of the peace. The whole thing seems so fragile in retrospect, so haphazard." (Source: WND.)

In order to get married, you need to apply and receive a marriage license. This is the document that allowed Dunham-Obama to officially be married under the law. They would have applied for the license at the Honolulu marriage bureau at the County Clerk's office. They would have stated that they intended to marry on Maui. (SITE NOTE: We had previously thought the marriage would be registered in Maui, but this is not so. A license issued anywhere in the state is valid for a marriage perforned anywhere else in the state. The marriage most likely would have been registered in Honolulu where the marriage license would have been returned to after the justice of the peace/minister had signed it. The certified copy of the paperwork would be sent to the address they indicated on the form.)

The marriage license would have to be WITHIN one month of the wedding ceremony -- thus it was sometime in Jan 1961 they obtained a license and they were married supposedly on 2 Feb 1960. This is when she had known Obama for ONLY TWO MONTHS -- figuring they met on 26 Sep 1960. THIS IS A BIT UNBELIEVABLE.

Ann Dunham would need her birth certificate to prove her age which shouldn't have been a problem, but Obama would be using his passport as a foreign citizen. Ann Dunham would need proof of identification and age. She was born on 29 Nov 1942, so she would have been legally of age being over 18 -- and not requiring parental consent. The Obama story says that the senior Dunhams objected and Ann Dunham and Obama ran away and got married anyway without friends, family or witnesses. However, no documentation can be found of the marriage. Because of the circumstances surrounding this "courtship" that no seems to recall -- except Neil Abercrombie -- and the whirlwind nature of the marriage, we simply cannot believe this was a real marriage. Even after the wedding, Obama lived separately from Dunham -- and after the birth of Obama Jr., Ann Dunham departed for Washington state in Aug 1961.

There also would have to have a witness when they signed application for the license -- but no one has come forward. Then when they had the marriage license, they could run off to Maui. But wait again. They needed a justice of the peace or a religious clergyman to sign the document who will then send it to the proper government agency for validation. He/she would sign the marriage license form at the bottom as certification of the marriage and then he would mail it in. (Source: US Marriage Laws.) Again no one has come forward. Searches of Honolulu and Wailuku, Maui have resulted in negative results on finding any marriage certificate.

The only proof there was a "legal marriage" is when Ann Dunham swears on her divorce complaint that a "legal marriage" had taken place on 2 Feb 1960. We believe Ann Dunham perjured herself, but since the divorce was uncontested by Obama Sr. -- with no alimony, no child support or any encumberances -- and it went right through.

There is a question about previous marriages to Kezia Grace, but the Obama story states he lied to Ann Dunham and claimed he was single. But the truth is that this is not a big thing because the "tribal marriage" to Kezia was in Kenya where Obama Sr. provided a dowry of 14 cows and doesn't count in the U.S.. It would only have mattered if he had a polygamous marriage in the U.S. Legally, the only marriage in the U.S. was to Dunham -- if such a marriage ever took place.

(SITE NOTE: While reviewing this birth, one should keep in the back of your mind that Ann Dunham would be starting night classes at the University of Washington on 19 Aug 1961 -- 15 days after this birth. What makes this peculiar is that this move was done apparently WITHOUT the assistance of the senior Dunhams -- though financial assistance may have been provided. Within 15 days of this birth, she moved out of the cottage at Kalanianaole Hwy; hopped on a plane with a newborn; found a new home and found the bare essentials to start a life; found a baby-sitter and registered for classes -- and started life in Washington state as a single mother. This is pretty astounding for a girl who had never been out on her own before...but also raises questions of outside parties assisting her -- and then the questions come as to why?

At the same time, there are allegations that Ann Dunham gave birth to Obama in Kenya and that she was returning from Kenya when she stopped in Washington state. In other words, after giving birth in Kenya, she returned only to Washington -- and did NOT return to Hawaii. Her parents in Hawaii reported the live birth to the Department of Health without Ann Dunham being present. This was possible under the regulations at the time where a relative could report the birth if the birth occurred at home or outside of the Hawaii. The only requirement was that the parent (mother) be a resident of Hawaii -- which Ann Dunham fulfilled as a student at the UH. On this regulation, try to remember that this regulation was a holdover from the Territory of Hawaii days when transportation to Honolulu took two days of travel by wagon to reach the county seat. The evidence for this birth in Kenya is entirely hearsay based upon the comments of Obama's step-grandmother who stated she was present at the time of his birth in Mombasa.)

There also are questions raised about Obama's move to Indonesia when he was a child and his attendance at school there when only Indonesian citizens were allowed and his trip to Pakistan in the 1980s when such travel was forbidden to American citizens. Obama supporters jumped on the Buffalo paper's story when Nelson said she may be the only person left "who specifically remembers his birth."

The report said: "When Barack Hussein Obama places his hand on the Bible today to take the oath of office as 44th president of the United States, Barbara Nelson of Kenmore will undoubtedly think back to the day he was born. It was Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu."

But Nelson told WND her knowledge of the birth came only from a physician, Dr. Rodney West, with whom she was dining, and the subject was brought up because of the mother's novel name and the "musical" name of the son, Barack Hussein Obama. She told WND the conversation also was memorable because Obama's mother's name was Stanley, named after her father, and the son also was named after his father.

However, Nelson told WND today, "I don't know in what capacity [West] knew about this particular birth." She said the birth and the unusual names arose in a conversation with West, a leader in the development of obstetrics services throughout Hawaii before Obama was born. However, she said the assumption that West delivered the baby, or that she said that, were just wrong. "Being one of the leaders in obstetrics in Hawaii, he could have had physical or informational access to all of the obstetrics [on the islands]," she told WND.

The discussion centered on the "peculiarity of a woman named Stanley," she said. "I just said tell me something [that has happened]," she said. "And he says Stanley had a baby, and that's something to write home about." He also told her the father was the first African student at the University of Hawaii, "another interesting local thing," Nelson told WND. "[West] never said to me, 'I delivered a baby,'" Nelson said.

She said she then recalled the name and circumstances 10 years later when the baby's father, now an official in Kenya, returned to Hawaii to speak. Nelson told WND "to those of us from Hawaii," there aren't any questions or issues about Obama's birth. "Hawaii is knee-deep in people who know the whole Obama history," she said.

A blogger at ObamaCitizenshipFacts.org pointed out that West could not possibly have delivered Obama since, according to a Hawaiian Pearl Harbor history website, he retired in 1956, five years before Obama's birth. "December of l956, after delivering at least 5,000 babies ... he retired from the practice of medicine," said the Pearl Harbor Survivors Project website.

"Hope this is helpful in squelching another convenient remembered memory put out there by the O-Bot crowd to try and substantiate his birth in Hawaii without showing an 'original, long-form, birth certificate known as a CERTIFICATE of Live Birth,' not the phony image of the 'CERTIFICATION of Live Birth' computer form he has been touting as proof," the blogger wrote.

Nelson confirmed that West, who died only months ago, spent a great deal of his life in medical management, working with the major obstetrics providers in Hawaii, serving the American Medical Association in the state and directing one of the obstetrics clinics. Nelson said she was "appalled" at being caught up in the arguments over Obama's birth. "All I have was a very nice, wholesome story," she said. (Source: World Net Daily.)

Birth Announcement in Newspapers WND also found on microfilm in the Honolulu downtown public library a notice published under the "Births, Marriages, Deaths" section of the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser for August 13, 1961, on page B-6, noting: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack II Obama. 6085 Kalanianaole-Hwy, son, Aug. 4." In searching through the birth notices of the Honolulu Advertiser for 1961, WND found many birth notices were published between one and two weeks after the date of birth listed. The notice in the Honolulu Advertiser does not list the hospital where the Obama son was born or the doctor who delivered the baby. Obama was born on 8 Aug 1961and a birth notice was printed in the Sunday edition of the Honolulu Advertiser on 13 Aug 1961. (SITE NOTE: The same identical announcement was made in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Both the Advertiser and Star Bulletin used a listing distributed by the Department of Health at the time. (Source: Honolulu Advertiser.)) (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart.)

Much has been made of the date (13 Aug 1961) on the birth announcement as "proof" that Obama was NOT born in a hospital. However, in our judgement, it proves NOTHING. Reports indicate that the same announcement appeared in BOTH the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star Bulletin. The list of births were compiled by the Board of Health (Department of Health) and forwarded to the newspapers. The date does NOT prove anything as the announcements were NOT placed by a private individual.

BUT, by the same token, the announcement does NOT prove that the birth took place in a hospital as late births could be registered in Hawaii up to a year after the fact. In addition, according to the regulations at the time, all it would take is one affidavit from a relative to substantiate live birth. These births reported to the Board of Health (Department of Health) covered "home births" and/or births that happened overseas. There are still a lot of questions that can only be answered by the release of Obama's Certificate of Birth (vault copy) that lists a doctor and hospital. (SITE NOTE: Please bear in mind that there is nothing conspiratorial about these regulations. Hawaii still dealing with a populace that was imbued in "dark age" of the territorial days. Even my father born in 1917 was registered AFTER he was 21 because he was born in Waipahu and moved to an Aiea homestead -- and never legally registered. Waipahu nowadays is a fifteen minute ride from Honolulu, but when my father was born, it was an all-day trip ONE-WAY. The regulation that allowed late births was made for these circumstances. The "haole" legal system still had problems meshing with the native beliefs of Hawaii. By 1961, the system and people were modern in thinking, but the regulations from yesteryear were still on the books.)

In our opinion, because a "late birth" could have been filed, the date of the birth announcement in the newspapers is nothing more than a distraction -- and proves nothing.





Allegations: University of Washington transcripts show Ann Dunham entered night classes at the University of Washington in Seattle on 19 Aug 1961 -- 15 days after the birth of Obama. Obama accompanied his mother (as a newborn infant still in diapers), during a visit to Seattle, WA, (circa 1961-1962) as attested to by accounts from friends. The unusual circumstance of Ann Dunham appearing in Mercer, Washington the same month as Obama Jr. was born sparked allegations:

• Philip Berg suit: Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya and Ann Dunham was on her way to Hawaii. We do NOT place too high a credence factor in the following story. According to the Philip Berg suit, Obama's mother, 18 year old Ann Dunham, married to Obama Sr. February 2, 1961 and traveled to Kenya very pregnant with the infant we know today as Barack, but has also been called Barry. Dunham, either finding out that her husband had another wife, or not liking the way Muslim men treat their wives, or possibly both, decides to return to her parents in Hawaii. According to Berg, the airlines will not permit her to board a plane as her delivery is imminent. Dunham gives birth to a son in Mombassa, Kenya, August 4, 1961. Dunham returns to Hawaii and according to Berg registers the birth August 8, 1961. A newspaper clip birth announcement is extant from August 13, 1961.
  
  IMPORTANT Philip Berg's insistence that Ann Dunham had a birth in Kenya is SHAKY. It doesn't hold up IF ANN DUNHAM RETURNED TO HAWAII and files the "late birth" report. It is based solely on verbal statements of Sarah Onyango Obama, Obama's step grandmother -- and the translations of a highly suspect "Anabaptist Bishop" -- a street minister. The taped interviews and translations are highly suspect. The "proof" is very flimsy without any documentation. The Kenyan records were sealed after Obama became President. The Kenyan government has forbidden all of Obama's relatives from speaking to the foreign press without permission of the government. However, Obama's step-aunt, Zeituni Onyango -- who has been living illegally in the US since 2004 after ordered deported -- claims that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. "Barack was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ann (Obama's mother) never stepped foot on Kenyan soil," Onyango says defiantly. (Source: AP.) (SITE NOTE: Present at his swearing in as a U.S. Senator in Jan 2005 was Sarah Onyango Obama, Obama's step-grandmother from Kenya, and Zeituni Onyango. She proudly remembers attending the swearing in ceremony with her mother, Sarah Obama. Home video shows them both in full African dress at a celebration party shortly afterwards. What is strange was that Zeituni was ordered deported after her request for asylum from Kenya was denied in 2004. She had "disappeared" to evade extradition. She was found by British reporters in 2008 living in Boston Public Housing. What makes this curious is that Obama claimed that he did NOT know anything about her deportation status -- even though she was invited by him to his swearing in as a Senator in 2005.)
  
  IMPORTANT Our biggest problem with this theory is that Obama Sr. was on a student visa and living without much money. (1) How could he afford the trip to Kenya for himself and pregnant Ann Dunham? -- BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY: (2) Why would he take his wife to Kenya at that time. It was simply not logical why he would take his very pregnant wife to his country. For what reason? To gain permission from his family AFTER he had married? To show off his new child BEFORE it was born? The entire trip is illogical. He was within one year of graduation and such a trip would make more sense AFTER he graduated. He was still attending school FULL-TIME while living on support from patrons and could not afford a trip home for a "summer break" like normal students. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY: (3) No one has ever documented how Obama Sr. took a leave of absence to take his wife to Kenya -- WHILE ENGAGED IN A FULL-TIME COURSE OF STUDY WITHOUT BREAKS. BUT OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE: (4) Why did Obama return to Hawaii alone while Ann Dunham went to Washington state to start a new life. Philip Berg has been placing his entire focus on Ann Dunham and nothing on Obama Sr. The entire return trip to Kenya at that time is NOT logical.
  
  
  Notice that Obama Sr's Course of study was uninterrupted -- How did he go to Kenya?
  
  WE BELIEVE NO SUCH TRIP TOOK PLACE AND OBAMA WAS NOT BORN IN KENYA. WE BELIEVE HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII -- AS A NATIVE BORN CITIZEN -- BUT DEFINITELY NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Under Article II of the Constitution, Obama was born to a parent who was a citizen of another nation. Obama was born as a dual citizen of U.S.-Britain. (When Kenya won its independence in 1963, Obama became a dual U.S.-Kenyan citizen.) As such, he does not fall under the definition of a natural born citizen -- and as such is not eligible to be President of the United States.
  
  Regardless of our misgivings about this Philip Berg theory, let us examine it. The reason we feel the case is weak is because of the time element of Obama's birth in Kenya on 4 Aug 1961 and the time Ann Dunham appears for night classes at the University of Washington on 19 Aug 1961. First, we have the problem with documentation and immunizations. Given the fact that Ann Dunham would give birth in Mombasa at the Coastal Hospital, she would not be able to leave the country because no airlines would fly a child without a doctor's release -- normally three weeks. In addition, she would need paperwork to document the child either a being American flying on her passport or a British citizen proven by his birth certificate and registration with the British Consulate. Either one would be needed to depart Kenya on an international flight. Thus we would estimate two-days in the hospital, one week for paperwork (either British or American), two days to arrange transportation (because of the connecting flights all the way to SEATTLE). This shoots about nine-ten days in the time equation are shot -- with her departing at best on 13 or 14 Aug for the trip home. This would leave only about four to five days travel IN 1961. Travel was slow -- as this was the advent of the jet age. It is highly improbable that she could have made it half-way around the world in five days.
  
  In 1961, jet travel was just beginning internationally. In fact, the first commercial jet airliner, a Boeing 707, landed in Hawaii in 1961. The story goes that Ann Dunham traveled to Kenya, but could not return to the U.S. because she was in the late stages of pregnancy and airlines would not allow passengers on the flight. Obama is born in Coastal Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. It was witnessed by his paternal step-grandmother. Somehow Ann Dunham gets either a British or U.S. passport for the infant to leave Kenya. It would have taken about two weeks to return to Hawaii (travel from Kenya to Europe, then a trans-Atlantic flight to New York or Atlanta, and hops cross-country to Seattle (SEA-TAC), and finally a trans-Pacific flight to Hawaii). It was reported that the San Francisco terminal was out of commission in Aug 1961 (not confirmed) so she would have entered into SEA-TAC (Seattle-Tacoma IAP).
  
  Under this theory, Ann Dunham would have to stop in Seattle, Washington -- and NOT return to Hawaii. Notice that if Ann Dunham had returned to Hawaii to file her "late birth" at the DOH -- she then would have had to return to Seattle to start her night classes at the University of Washington on 19 Aug 1961. It would simply be more convenient to file a "late birth" through her parents -- as the regulations allowed for this in 1961. For Ann Dunham to give birth in Kenya and return to Hawaii and then return to Washington is a near impossiblity. Thus in our opinion, Philip Berg has a very weak case IF HE CONTINUES TO DECLARE THAT ANN DUNHAM RETURNED TO HAWAII.
  
  HOWEVER, if one asserts that the birth notice was filed by Dunham's parents in lieu of Ann Dunham in person, then the time element is possible -- though rather tight. It was possible to file a birth notice by a RELATIVE -- and not necessarily the parent. Thus to them, the time factor was not a problem if Dunham was in Kenya. Because of this loophole, the theory that Obama was born in Kenya has persisted -- BUT nothing can be proven without a birth certificate (long-form). (SITE NOTE: In July 2009, an alleged birth certificate copy was released by Orly Taitz -- though it appears that Ed Hale (of the internet Plains Radio claimed he had it in his possession since Sep 2008. Taitz sought to have the document verified by the courts -- with the intent of getting the State Department to have Kenya "protect" the records in Mombasa. There was a great deal of skepticism over the authenticity of the document because of its irregularities in the document and the amount of hoaxes on Kenyan birth certificates that occurred in Jun and late Jul 2009.)
  
  In other words, Philip Berg's assertion that Obama was born in Kenya only works if Stanley and Madelyn Dunham in Hawaii file the "late birth" report in lieu of Ann Dunham. After giving birth in Kenya on 4 Aug 1961, Ann Dunham would not have enough time to return from Kenya file the report and return to Washington state in time to start classes on 19 Aug 1961. She had to have stopped in Washington and NOT returned to Hawaii.

  The Obama "Birth Flap" was not of Berg's making. It began in June when National Review's Jim Geraghty raised the question and asked the Obama Campaign to release a copy of his birth certificate in order to prove that he actually was born in the United States. (Reports had previously surfaced claiming that Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, told reporters that Obama was not born in Hawaii, but in Kenya. She also reportedly told reporters that when her son, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. returned to Kenya he was accompanied by his pregnant white wife who was close to term.)
  
  To add to the confusion, Obama's step-grandmother supposedly claimed Obama was born in Kenya. Allegedly Obama's family did NOT take to Stanley Ann Dunham Obama very well, because she was white, according to Sarah Obama. Shortly after she arrived in Kenya Stanley Ann decided to return to Hawaii because she later said, she did not like how Muslim men treated their wives in Kenya. However, because she was near term the airline would not let her fly until after the birth of her baby. Obama's grandmother said the baby—Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.—was born in Kenya and that shortly after he was born, Stanley Ann returned to Hawaii.
  
  There have been claims that Obama’s paternal step-grandmother (his father’s stepmother), Sarah Hussein Obama (or Sarah Onyango Obama) (1922 - ), told reporters that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Kenya, when her son came to visit, accompanied by a pregnant Ann Dunham - who was very close to her delivery date. Sarah Hussein Obama further states that she was present in the delivery room when Obama was born in Kenya. One half-brother and one half-sister of candidate Obama also claim he was born in Kenya. This would be consistent with a reported stop by Dunham in the state of Washington on the return trip to Hawaii, and with the possible existence of only a Hawaiian “register of birth,” rather than an actual birth certificate. The Chicago Tribune was told by Dunham friend Susan Blake that Dunham visited her in Seattle shortly after Obama’s birth. (Source: Mens News Daily.)

  Documentation and Immunizations in Kenya But again this creates problems because how did Ann Dunham get onto the aircraft without proving the newborn's nationality -- unless the nationality was Kenyan (British) by virtue of his father. There is NO proof that Obama was born in Mombasa's Coastal Hospital -- and all records have been sealed after Obama became President. (SITE NOTE: In Jul 2009, a document appeared that is allegedly a copy of his birth certificate. There was great skepticism over its authenticity. Orly Taitz attempted to have the courts verify the document -- and therefore getting the courts to protect the documents in Kenya through the State Department. Some questioned this tactic based upon a dubious document.)
  
  In order for Dunham to take the infant out of Kenya, she would have visited either the British consulate (using Obama's Kenyan birth certificate showing Obama Sr's nationality) to get Obama registered and documented as a British citizen traveling with his American mother. If she went to the American Consulate for issuance of a Overseas Live Birth Certificate, she would have to prove her citizenship -- through her passport and show Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. The process in either case would take at least two days.
  
  Notification of DOH and Birth Announcement in Hawaii There are two versions of the return from Kenya -- (1) She returned to Hawaii and (2) she stopped in Washington state. We believe the first version is impossible due to the time constraints of documentation and travel. Under the first version, when she arrived back in Hawaii, Stanley Ann Dunham registered her son's live birth as an event which had just happened—in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then turns around and heads back to Washington state where she enters the University of Washington on 19 Aug 1961. We assert that Ann Dunham simply did NOT have the time to make this possible.
  
  Thus only the second version is possible in order for her to be able to start classes on 19 Aug 1961. In this case, only her parents would be able to enter the birth of Obama into the Department of Health records as a "late birth." They would have been notified telephonically by Ann Dunham of the birth and entered the information at the Department of Health. Ann Dunham did NOT have to return to Hawaii. (SITE NOTE: Even with this theory, it is very hard for us to believe that a woman who had never been on her own IN THE SPACE OF 15 DAYS -- give birth, have her son registered and immunized, fly half-way around the world, stop in Washington, find an apartment and basics to start life, register for classes and find a baby sitter for her infant. We do not believe Ann Dunham was Wonder Woman. AND WHO PAID FOR ALL OF THIS???)
  
  Ann Dunham's parents called in the birth of Obama as though it was a "home birth." This way there would be no entanglements dealing with American citizenship or obtaining an overseas birth certificate through the U.S. embassy. The birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser/Star-Bulletin were based upon information forwarded by the Department of Health registration of births. The DOH sent a notice to the papers regularly.
  
  So, how is it possible to NOT be born in Hawaii and yet have a birth certificate record in Hawaii?
  
  

  [§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health hall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.
  
  (b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.
  
  (c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, §1] Hawaii statute

  If Obama was born in Kenya, his mother had to be nineteen years old for Obama to be a U.S. citizen. Berg explains:

  "If in fact Obama was born in Kenya, the laws on the books at the time of his birth stated if a child is born abroad and one parent was a U.S. Citizen, which would have been his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother would have had to live ten (10) years in the United States, five (5) of which were after the age of fourteen (14). At the time of Obama's birth, his mother was only eighteen (18) and therefore did not meet the residency requirements under the law to give her son (Obama) U.S. Citizenship. The laws in effect at the time of Obama's birth prevented U.S. Citizenship at birth of children born abroad to a U.S. Citizen parent and a non-citizen parent, if the citizen parent was under the age of nineteen (19) at the time of the birth of the child. Obama's mother did not qualify under the law on the books to register Obama as a "natural born" citizen. Section 301(a)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952, 66 Stat. 163, 235, 8 U.S.C. §1401(b), Matter of S-F- and G-, 2 I & N Dec. 182 (B.I.A.) approved (Att'y Gen. 1944)."

  
  
  
  (L) Obama Hawaii COLB Certificate that does NOT contain hospital information (R) 1963 Hawaii Birth Certificate with pertinent information
  
  Ann Dunham does NOT return to Hawaii In order to make the time constraints work for Philip Berg's theory, Ann Dunham did NOT return to Hawaii on her return leg from Kenya. Instead she stopped in Washington State and started a new life there and entered the University of Washington for night classes on 19 Aug 1961 -- 15 days after the birth of Obama. The birth was registered in Hawaii by the senior Dunhams. Her parents in Hawaii reported the live birth to the Department of Health without Ann Dunham being present. This was possible under the regulations at the time where a relative could report the birth if the birth occurred at home or outside of the Hawaii. The only requirement was that the parent (mother) be a resident of Hawaii -- which Ann Dunham fulfilled as a student at the UH. On this regulation, try to remember that this regulation was a holdover from the Territory of Hawaii days when transportation to Honolulu took two days of travel by wagon to reach the county seat. The announcement from the DOH was reported to the Honolulu Advertiser/Star Bulletin where it was published on 13 Aug 1961. Dunham remained in Washington state attending the University of Washington until AFTER Obama Sr. departed Hawaii for Harvard in March 1962. She then returned to Hawaii and re-entered the University of Hawaii in the Spring semester of 1963.
  
  Those people that feel this version is true remark that two weeks would have provided ample time for Obama's mother to register the birth as a "home birth" (late birth) through her parents -- and this would explain the reluctance of Obama to provide the vault copy of his birth certificate that shows definitively whether he was born in a Honolulu hospital -- or if he was born "at home" (without a physician) -- and show that his grandparents reported his birth. However, nothing can be proven. Republican Governor Linda Lingle sealed all records -- hospital and Board of Health -- in Sep 2008. This had nothing to do with party politics -- it had to do with Obama being considered a "local boy" made good.)
  
  Kenyan Birth Certificate Hoaxes -- See Kenyan Birth Certificate Hoaxes for details.

  Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth? -- Orly Taitz files motion for authentication of alleged 1960s certificate from Africa (Aug 2009) California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.
  
  
  
  The document lists Obama's parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
  
  
  
  No doctor is listed. But the alleged certificate bears the signature of the deputy registrar of Coast Province, Joshua Simon Oduya. It was allegedly issued as a certified copy of the original in February 1964. WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.
  
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  Last week, a counterfeit document purporting to be Obama's Kenyan birth certificate made the rounds of the Internet, but was quickly determined to be fraudulent. The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax. Taitz told WND that the document came from an anonymous source who doesn't want his name known because "he's afraid for his life." Taitz's motion, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requests the purported evidence of Obama's birth – both the alleged birth certificate and foreign records not yet obtained – be preserved from destruction, asks for permission to legally request documents from Kenya and seeks a subpoena for deposition from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  
  "I filed the motion with the court asking for expedited discovery, which would allow me to start subpoenas and depositions even before Obama and the government responds," Taitz told WND. "I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy and to require a deposition from Hillary Clinton so they will be forced to authenticate [the birth certificate].
  
  "I'm forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond," she said.
  
  "Before, they said, 'You don't have anything backing your claims,'" Taitz explained. "Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures." (Source: WND.)
  
  (SITE NOTE: There is a large amount of skepticism over this document -- especially after the other hoax in late Jul 2009. The need for impartial verification or debunking of the document must be done before any judgement can be rendered. It seems to have appeared too conveniently when the Mainstream media is attempting to discredit the "birthers." The mistrust is that it is possibly a forgery planted by Obama supporters to make the "birther" movement appear ridiculous.)
  
  Rumors and counter-rumors were running wild in the first week of August 2009. It now appears that there is a second document; this one with a tear. According to Free Republic (The second one, with the "tear" was a poorly-processed picture done by a Freeper called Salamander.) Where did the tear come from? Ed: Note, it seems that while removing the background, it may have 'leaked' onto the document. (Source: Native Born Citizen.)
  
  Ed Hale now has apparently admitted that he had the document in his possession since September 2008 but he did not release it until recently through Orly while initially trying to get rid of it via the eBay ruse. He got it through someone by the name of "Shirley" who paid $1000 to get the document (which is weird given that it is a 1964 document). (Source: Native Born Citizen.) (SITE NOTE: Ed Hale is an Internet Plains Radio host of some repute that has hyped Obama documents in order to boost his listener ratings. The Obama divorce documents are an example of his hype.)
  
  Dr. Ron Polarik who stated the Obama COLB was a forgery, has called the Kenya birth certificate a forgery. "I am amazed at the cluelessness of many people in this forum about the above obvious fake document. For instance: Kenya didn't become a republic until December 1964; E.F Lavender is a common detergent in Kenya & the certificate# 44 0 47 is laughable: 47 = he's the 44th US President, O = Obama & 47 = his age. Are all these coincidental you lunatics…." (Source: Native Born Citizen.)
  
  High points:
  
  

  • - The document lists Mombasa as party of Kenya. Mombasa did not become part of Kenya until 1963. It used to be part of Zanzibar.
  • -Why would a predominantly Muslim nation actually say "Christian name" (as opposed to name) on the birth certificate?
  • - The forger incorrectly calculated Obama's fathers age.
  • - The hospital was in an area called the "Central Nyanza District," not Nyanza Province. The regions were changed to provinces in 1970.
  • -The document is dated 5 August 1964 -- a Saturday. From what I can find, Kenyan guvmint offices close early on Friday and are closed on Saturdays. Oooops
  • - This piece of paper certainly looks nice and new to be 45 years old -- unless the Kenyans were using acid-free paper back in 1964
  • - The hospital is called Coast Provincial General Hospital (sometimes said to be Coast Province General Hospital), not Coast General Hospital.
  • - Finally, Officials of Coast Province General Hospital reported: "We do not have computerized records going back to the 1960's and can only sort through our archives by hand," Dr. Christopher Mwanga, an administrator at the Mombasa hospital tells GLOBE. "We have searched for all the names of babies born on Aug. 4, 1961, and have not found the name of Barack Hussein Obama.

  
  (Source: Knox Views.))
  
  The document is alleged to be made from a template of an Australian birth certificate copy. According to Democratic Underground, "It was a scanned image of a "Certified Copy of Registration of Birth" dated in 1964 for a David Jeffrey Bomford on a genealogy website for the Bomford family. Except that David Jeffrey Bomford wasn't born in Kenya, he was born in South Australia. But what was even more interesting was certain other features of the document as compared to the Kenya certificate." The names of the registrar and the district registrar were the SAME NAMES as given in the Kenya certificate save for the first initials, i.e. G.H. Lavender and J.H. Miller in the Bomford document versus E.H. Lavender and M.H. Miller in the Kenya document. Also, the book number (44B) and page number (5733) were the exactly the same on both documents. The image of the Bomford certificate seems to prove beyond any doubt that not only is the Kenya certificate a fake, but that whomever faked it used the Bomford certificate as the template. (SITE NOTE: This contradicts the World Net Daily that supposedly received documents from Kenya of the same year that appeared identical. This also makes Ed Hale a conspirator in the forgery if reports are true that Ed Hale gave the photo of the document to Orly Taitz. -- BUT at this point in Aug 2009, remember that forgeries can work TWO ways. This document may have been made from the Kenyan document as a template. Cursory look shows the seals are different and the angle of the creases are two different pieces of paper at the bottom. One of the two is a forgery because of the name similarities -- or both could be fakes.
  
  Anything is possible and expert analysis is required. In Aug 2009, there was a massive movement in progress to discredit Orly Taitz, the "birther movement" and anyone questioning Obama's credentials in general. The strategy was effective as many supporters of Orly Taitz began to back away from her efforts in Aug 2009. In fighting back, "experts" claimed to debunk the Australian version as a copy of Orly Taitz's "original." Remember that we are only dealing with a .jpg photo image of the document. We believed that Orly Taitz would have done better to simply drop the issue and state that she needed "experts" to verify or debunk the document. However, her insistence in defending the document continued to undermine her credentials and lose her the growing following she had won.)
  
  
  Supposed Australian Template
  
  

• Some blogs: Obama was born in Canada and Ann Dunham was returning to Hawaii. Obama was born in Washington or Canada and Ann Dunham simply remained in Washington to enroll in the University of Washington. Because of the proximity and easy access the area of British Columbia would be the area under inspection. This idea explains why Ann Dunham was in Washington so soon after Obama's birth.
  
  Upon her return to Hawaii in approximately Jun 1962 she filed for a "late birth" or "home birth" outside of Hawaii as she was a legal resident with one year in residence -- she moved to Hawaii in late 1960 fulfilling the residency requirement and Obama was born in Aug 1961. BUT the chink in this theory of being born in Washington or Canada is the birth announcement of 13 Aug 1961 which was provided by the Department of Health -- not as a private individual advertisement. This would mean the birth had to be in Hawaii -- NOT in Washington or Canada. Ann Dunham then rushed to Hawaii and filed a "late birth" or "home birth" with the Hawaii Department of Health to obtain a birth certificate. There is no justification provided for this theory nor any research done as far as we know into this possibility.
  
  
• Most likely: Ann Dunham is the biological mother, but Obama Sr. is NOT the biological father. The "family" relationship is a collosal lie perpetrated by Obama. Ann Dunham was in Washington state to enroll in the University of Washington for the Autumn semester in August 1961 -- 15 days after the birth of Obama.
  
  This would mean that after Obama Sr. had agreed to publicly claim Obama as his offspring and was provided financial assistance for his part in the scam. Obama was born in Hawaii -- though where is unknown (home or hospital). Obama Sr. had agreed to publicly acknowledge Obama Jr. as his son to prevent any shame -- after a sham marriage.

  (SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT The hole is why Ann Dunham had simply not arranged for a therapeutic abortion in the first trimester -- instead of a sham marriage. Given the racial climate in the United States in the early 1960s, why would she decide to keep the mulatto child till full-term. Back alley abortion "clinics" were not unknown in Honolulu because of the prostitution surrounding the Navy/Army/Marine presence in Hawaii. The question of why an abortion was not chosen will never be answered.
  
  The obvious conclusion that can be made because Obama Sr. was chosen for the sham marriage, is that Anne Dunham (and the senior Dunhams) knew BEFORE the birth that the Obama would be mulatto. This means that they KNEW the identity of the real father as a black man -- whoever he might be.
  
  We do not lend credence to Frank Marshall as a potential candidate. The reason is that Stanley Dunham retained a friendly relationship with Frank Marshall after the birth. As a father of a daughter, I cannot see how any father would remain of friends with someone who seduced his daughter -- no matter how liberal one is. Because of Stanley Dunham's politics (communist), we can understand why he would retain the friendship -- but we cannot regard Frank Marshall as the father of Obama. We disregard rumors of Malcolm X because the conception took place in Hawaii based upon the timeline of Obama's birth.
  
  All we can conclude is the father was known to the Dunhams, but his identity is unknown.)

  The Dunham-Obama divorce paperwork was produced by the Plains Radio Network's Ed Hale on 3 Jan 2009. "Barack Hussein Obama II" was listed in the paperwork meaning the marriage was legal. We hypothesize that Obama Sr. as part of a financial arrangement publicly acknowledged Obama Jr. to prevent any "shame" from befalling the Dunham family in Hawaii's small-town atmosphere of the 1960s. Ann Dunham would return to Washington until Obama Sr. departed Hawaii. After the birth of Obama, Ann Dunham left for Washington to enroll as a "single mother" in the University of Washington.

Baby Barack Obama (Maya Soetoro)

IMPORTANT But this birth has numerous holes in it. Obama Jr. is born, but AT THE SAME TIME Obama Sr. was living at a different address (625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki) from the one on the birth notice (6085 Kalaniana'ole). Why would there be two different residences unless the whole marriage was a sham. This whole scenario starts to fall apart. It appears that Obama Sr. was NOT the father -- leaving the real father of Obama Jr. unknown -- and this whole marriage story was a fabrication. (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart.)

We hypothesize that Obama Jr. would have been registered WITHOUT A FATHER on the birth certificate under Ann Dunham's maiden name as "Barry Dunham." Because of the financial difficulties of Obama Sr. as admitted to his friends and in a newspaper story, he might have entered into a financial arrangement with the Dunhams. He was NOT an East-West Center student and was living on a very tight budget. He would provide the "cover story" for Ann Dunham's birth without further responsibility, he in turn would receive money from the Dunhams to move from a small apartment in Manoa to a house in Kaimuki -- and continue his education. He had no other responsibility and would live apart from Ann Dunham. This is why Ann Dunham went to Washington State in August 1961 -- the same month Obama Jr. was born.

There is something that just doesn't ring right with the situation. Though we are not willing to state at this time that Obama was NOT the father, we certainly have our doubts. We are also reluctant to ascribe to the theory that Frank Marshall, a black left-wing communist and poet, married to a socialite and living in Waikiki, was Obama's father. The allegation was brought by Obama muckraker Andy Martin in a radio interview in Sep 2008. Obama does mention him in his book as his "mentor," but still at this time, we think it is a far reach.

It is possible (but not provable) that Obama Jr. was born in Washington state or Canada because under the birth regulation of Hawaii of the time where one could register a "late birth" or "home birth" up to one year after the actual birth. Obama had to be born in Hawaii -- or atleast the materials for birth had to be presented to the Department of Health (Board of Health) by the "legal parents of the minor child" prior to it issuing its list.

There are other questions being asked about the location listed in Honolulu Advertiser that gave the address. The long-time neighbor of that address does not remember anyone living there as a white woman who gave birth to a negroid child. The investigation was done by the World Net Daily through a private investigator. (SITE NOTE: This is not surprising as the residence was a 450 sq ft cottage in the rear of the main residence. Students and winter "transients" are common rentals of these places and come and go without recognition from the long-time residents.)

A private investigator has released to WND an affidavit that casts doubt on whether Barack Obama's family lived at the address listed in the published notice of his birth in 1961. Jorge Baro was hired by WND to investigate issues related to Obama's birth amid allegations the Democrat does not meet the Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural born citizen." Baro's affidavit documents an interview his staff conducted with Beatrice Arakaki, who has lived at 6075 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu since before Obama was born.

The affadivit is at the center of a federal lawsuit filed prior to the November election in Hattiesburg, Miss., before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett. The suit is one of several yet to be adjudicated that calls for proof of Obama being a "natural born citizen" as required by the Constitution. Baro is the in-house senior investigator for Elite Legal Services, LLC, in Royal Palm Beach, Fla.

In Hawaii, WND was able to locate at the Honolulu public library microfilm of a notice placed in the Sunday Advertiser Aug. 13, 1961. The announcement in the "Births, Marriages, Death" section read: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4." (SITE NOTE: The same identical announcement was made in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Both the Advertiser and Star Bulletin used a listing distributed by the Department of Health at the time. (Source: Honolulu Advertiser.)) (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart.)

Arakaki told Baro's investigators she had no recollection of Obama being born or of the family living next door having a black child born to a white mother. Baro sent a team of investigators to Honolulu to explore records regarding current residents of Kalanianaole Highway and to track down residents back to 1961. Baro's investigators were unable to locate any current or past resident of Kalanianaole Highway who could recall Obama or his family living at the address listed in the Sunday Advertiser announcement. (SITE NOTE: This does NOT prove anything as it has been revealed that the property has a 450-square-foot cottage in the back that was built in 1953 at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway. This is the type of residence used by UH students. It would not be unusual for neighbors to not notice the temporary residents of the cottage. Because housing is so sparce in Honolulu, small and inexpensive residences such as this are quite common. (Source: Honolulu Advertiser.)) (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart. Though the house was bought by the Lefforges' in 1958, they are not listed as living in the main house until 1963. It is possible the Senior Dunhams were residing in the main house in 1961-1962 -- but the Lefforges' are dead so no one can validate/negate this possibility.)


Obama Birth Announcement

Baro also sent investigators to the newspaper offices to examine files, but the Advertiser could not confirm who actually placed the ad. (SITE NOTE: The birth announcement is identical to the birth announcements in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. It was NOT a paid ad. At that time, the information was supplied by the Department of Health and distributed to both papers.)

According to Baro's affidavit, Beatrice Arakaki affirmed she was a neighbor of the address listed. She has lived at her current residence of 6075 Kalanianaole Highway from before 1961 to the present. Moreover, Arakaki said she believed that when Obama lived with the Dunhams, his grandparents, the family address was in Waikiki, not on Kalanianaole Highway. Baro was able to determine the previous owners of the residence at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Highway – the alleged address of Obama's parents when he was born – were Orland S. and Thelma S. (Young) Lefforge, both of whom are deceased. (SITE NOTE: Dunham lived in various apartments in Honolulu but all were within easy bus-travel distance of her parents apartment. She operated within this "circle" of her parents residence.)

Baro's affidavit also documents that the Certification of Live Birth that Obama posted on his campaign website is not the original "long form" birth certificate issued in 1961 by the obstetrician or physician giving birth and the hospital where the baby was born. (SITE NOTE: This is not news. The one Obama shows is a CERTIFICATION of Live Birth while the "long form" Baro refers to is the CERTIFICATE of Live Birth or "vault copy.")

Baro's investigators learned that a "Certificate of Hawaiian Birth Program" established in 1911 during the territorial era and terminated in 1972 during the statehood era allowed Hawaiian residents to apply for a "Late Birth Certificate," called a "Certificate of Hawaiian Birth," which appears identical to the "birth certificate" Obama posted on his campaign website.

"This raised the question in my mind as to whether the 'Certification of Live Birth,' which is the only document that has been produced and as previously stated solely handled by the representatives of factcheck.org outside Obama's campaign, is a certification of a live birth or a late birth," Baro stated in his affidavit. "I am left with the conclusion that a simple request from Senator Barack Obama to produce the 'long form' (redacted if necessary) would end any speculation or question as to his birthplace," Baro's affidavit continued. "His continued denial to do so is suspect, in my professional opinion." Baro also pointed out that factcheck.org is funded by the Annenberg Foundation, which "is at the center of the ongoing Obama-Bill Ayers controversy – hardly an unbiased source for information in my view." (Source: World Net Daily: Jerome Corsi.)

Obama's Hawaii boyhood homes drawing gawkers

Birthplaces and boyhood homes of U.S. presidents have been duly noted and honored for nearly as long as America has been a nation. In the case of such towering figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, those early locations have been deemed national treasures and historic sites, visited annually by the multitudes.

The discovery and identification this year of George Washington's boyhood home in Virginia has been hailed as the "best available window into the setting that nurtured the father of our country." In the case of the historic election of Barack Obama on Tuesday as the next president, there's more than one boyhood home in Honolulu to celebrate and enshrine. Stories surrounding Obama's youth tend to focus on his birth in Hawai'i, his time in Indonesia, his time living with his grandparents on Beretania Street in lower Makiki and his high school years at Punahou School.

However, a view of the various homes where Obama dwelled in Honolulu reveals a broader, diversified beginning. Other than his four years in Indonesia between 1967 and 1971, Obama spent his time from birth to high school graduation in half a dozen Honolulu residences with one or more of his relatives. A look at those homes also shows that Obama's grandparents probably played a larger role in his infancy and early years than is usually reported.

The future president's first boyhood home is still standing on Kalaniana'ole Highway, in the Kuli'ou'ou area between 'Aina Haina and Hawai'i Kai. The yellow, four-bedroom, single-story home was built in 1948. Nani Smethurst, who has owned the home since 1979, said the place is essentially the same as it was when it was built, although it has been upgraded and landscaped by Smethurst, who is an architect. The property also has a 450-square-foot cottage in the back that was built in 1953. Smethurst said she recently noticed people coming around to peer at her home. Then she began receiving calls from local and Mainland newspapers inquiring about Obama's first home. "I didn't know," Smethurst said. "And then we got a call from someone saying did you know your home is Barack Obama's first home. It seems that somebody knew. A lot of people, when passing through, would come take a look and maybe take pictures."


6085 Kalaniana'ole Cottage


Main House


Overhead View (GoogleEarth)


Registration of ownership to Orland Lefforge and wife

She said someone posted the address on the Internet. That July posting contained a photocopy of what is most likely the first mention of Barack Obama ever published — a tiny, one-line birth notice in the Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961, edition of The Honolulu Advertiser: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4." The exact same notice appeared the following day in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The numerous birth announcements above and below the Obama listing also were identical in both papers, which were unaffiliated, competing publications. Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing editor Dave Shapiro was not at either paper in 1961, but he remembers how the birth notices process worked years later when both papers were jointly operated by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency — which no longer exists. "Those were listings that came over from the state Department of Health," he said. "They would send the same thing to both papers."

Baby's first home

Fringe theorists who insist Obama was born in Kenya are left to ponder how two independent Honolulu daily newspapers and the state Department of Health could be part of conspiracy half a century ago to thwart the truth about the future president of the United States. The first mention of that future president in the announcement was the word "son." The Barack H. Obama referred to was the newborn's father and the husband of the former Stanley Ann Dunham, the boy's mother. She and her parents, Kansas couple Stan Dunham, a furniture store operator, and Madelyn Dunham ("Toot," to Obama), a bank cashier, had come to Hawai'i in 1960 and moved into the Kalaniana'ole location.

The senior Obama came from Kenya to the University of Hawai'i in 1959, where he met and later married Stanley Ann Dunham, 18, also a UH student. It's feasible the couple occupied the back cottage at 6085 Kalaniana'ole. Public records from the time show that Barack H. Obama, 25, also had a residence at 625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki. (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart. Though the house was bought by the Lefforges' in 1958, they are not listed as living in the main house until 1963. It is possible the Senior Dunhams were residing in the main house in 1961-1962 -- but the Lefforges' are dead so no one can validate/negate this possibility.)


Obama Sr

Since those records show that Obama Sr. had the 11th Avenue dwelling at the same time he and his wife were living on Kalanianaole Highway, it's possible the young Barack also visited that residence. The 11th Avenue address is now occupied by a larger dwelling that was built in 1990.

(SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT This is confirmation that Obama Sr. was living at a different location than the one at 6085 Kalaniana'ole. The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart. Though the house was bought by the Lefforges' in 1958, they are not listed as living in the main house until 1963. It is possible the Senior Dunhams were residing in the main house in 1961-1962 -- but the Lefforges' are dead so no one can validate/negate this possibility.)

By 1963 the Dunhams had moved into Apartment 110 of a six-year-old building at 1427 Alexander Street, records show. A year before, Obama Sr. had separated from his wife and child to attend Harvard University. In 1963, when she was a UH sophomore, Stanley Ann Obama's address was listed in a university directory as 2277 Kamehameha Ave. She filed for divorce in 1964. It can be assumed that she and young Barack also spent time with the Dunhams at the two-bedroom apartment on Alexander, which is also still there.

backyard in Manoa

By 1964 the Dunhams, along with young Barack and their daughter, who was now going by the name Ann Dunham, were living together in a four-bedroom home at 2234 University Ave., records show. This single-story Manoa home with its wide-open veranda and sprawling front and back lawns, was within walking distance of Noelani Elementary School, which Obama attended. The family remained there together for more than three years. It represents what might have been the most traditional home life of Obama's childhood. Built in 1947, the house remains in a neighborhood that's little changed since the '60s.

Today, Virginie and Brian Ching and their two toddlers live at that residence along with a nanny. The couple found a photo of the home for rent in a want ad and were taken by the old-style home with hardwood floors and vertical board walls. Since April the family has been living in the rental house, which is owned by a neighborhood church. But they were unaware that Obama had lived there as a child. "I can't believe I'm standing on the floor where Barack Obama once walked," said Virginie Ching after learning she lives in the boyhood home of the president-elect. "I'm very happy to know that. I voted for him. Maybe he'd like to come back and visit."

Obama, his mother, and his grandparents were still living at the home in 1967 when Ann Dunham married another man she met at UH, Lolo Soetoro. The couple, with 6-year-old Barack in tow, moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, that same year. In 1971, at age 10, Barack Obama was back in Honolulu with his grandparents, who had moved to Apartment 1206 at 1617 S. Beretania. Two years later, the Dunhams and Obama settled into Apartment 1008 in the same 96-unit building, built in 1965. This was Obama's primary residence until he left Hawai'i in 1979 after high school graduation.

In 1973, Ann Soetoro returned to Hawai'i to study anthropology at UH. She and Lolo Soetoro had separated and she brought along the couple's 3-year-old toddler, Maya Soetoro. She and the child took up residence at a nine-unit walk up apartment at 1839 Poki Street. Years later Obama's sister recalled Obama staying with her and their mother at the Poki Street apartment, built in 1970.

But Ann Soetoro's friend, Alice Dewey, a UH professor who chaired Soetoro's doctorate committee, said that after Obama's mother returned to Hawai'i she stayed at several Honolulu locations, though she never strayed far from the orbit of her son and her parents. "She would get a place around the corner from her parents, so I suspect she spent as much time there as at her place," said Dewey. "She lived on Spreckles Street. I helped her carry her books up there. And I remember the Poki Street place, which was about two blocks away from her parents. She stayed for a while in my household at 2828 Kahawai St. "Barack would always come and go." Now, Dewey is amazed and delighted that people across the world are anxious to celebrate Obama's birthplace and enshrine his boyhood homes.

Born Aug. 4, 1961

While most Obama residences can be traced, the hospital where he was born is difficult to document. The desire of historians to pinpoint where Obama's life began has crashed head-on with the modern American propensity toward confidentiality. The federal Health Information Privacy Act of 1999 — a law passed to protect medical records from public scrutiny — prevents hospitals from confirming births, administrators contend. "We don't have plans to do anything," said Kapiolani Medical Center spokeswoman, Claire Tong, when asked how the center plans to commemorate the soon-to-be 44th U.S. president, who, according to Obama's family and other sources, was born at that hospital on Aug. 4, 1961. "We can't confirm or deny it — even though all the information out there says he was born at Kapiolani Hospital. And that's because of the HIPA law." Tong acknowledged that the center has received daily inquiries from news agencies far and wide asking for confirmation of Obama's birthplace. Much as she wishes she could do it, Tong said it's not possible. "Our hands are tied," she said. (SITE NOTE: Though the "privacy" idea explains why there is no public disclosure, it also highlights the problem. A court case a few years back stated that a public figure -- whether movie star or politician -- gives up a portion of his privacy when he assumes the mantle of a public figure. This is why this is so disturbing. Obama has spent about $700,000 on three law firms to protect a $20 birth certificate that most of us show without delay to obtain passports or drivers licenses or to qualify for employment.) (Source: Honolulu Advertiser.)

Obama Locations in Hawaii

IMPORTANT The second part that does not compute is that the Obama story says Ann Dunham and Obama Sr. were "married for two years" -- giving the impression that they lived together. According to the Obama campaign story, Ann, the earnest student, dropped out of school to take care of Obama Sr. and her infant. The birth announcement address has a small cottage at the rear so it is a plausible place for a college student to live at. However, Obama Sr. maintained a separate residence from Dunham in Kaimuki. The only way this scenario makes sense is if Obama Sr. knew that Ann Dunham was moving to Washington and found a new residence at 625 11th Ave -- OR the 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy cottage was a bogus address only for the birth announcement. This "separate residence" for Obama Sr. corroborates the impression that the marriage was a sham -- as how can a starving student afford TWO houses. (SITE NOTE: The World Net Daily discovered in Aug 2009 that Stanley Dunham (mgr Pratt Furniture) and Madelyn Dunham (interviewer & escrow Bank of Hawaii) resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy according to the Polk Listing 1961-1962. In the same listing, Ann Obama (student) also resided at 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Barack Obama (student) resided at 625 11th Ave in Kaimuki indicating they were living apart. Though the house was bought by the Lefforges' in 1958, they are not listed as living in the main house until 1963. It is possible the Senior Dunhams were residing in the main house in 1961-1962 -- but the Lefforges' are dead so no one can validate/negate this possibility.)

The future president's first boyhood home is still standing on Kalaniana'ole Highway, in the Kuli'ou'ou area between 'Aina Haina and Hawai'i Kai. The yellow, four-bedroom, single-story home was built in 1948. Nani Smethurst, who has owned the home since 1979, said the place is essentially the same as it was when it was built, although it has been upgraded and landscaped by Smethurst, who is an architect. The property also has a 450-square-foot cottage in the back that was built in 1953. ... The senior Obama came from Kenya to the University of Hawai'i in 1959, where he met and later married Stanley Ann Dunham, 18, also a UH student. It's feasible the couple occupied the back cottage at 6085 Kalaniana'ole. Public records from the time show that Barack H. Obama, 25, also had a residence at 625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki. (Source: Honolulu Advertiser.)

Apartments in downtown Honolulu, even in 1961 was at a premium and expensive -- with a hefty deposit if in the downtown Honolulu area -- especially those in close proximity to bus lines to the UH. One logically would NOT maintain TWO residences (625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki AND 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy). There were reports of Ann Dunham telling friends in Washington state of how she looked forward to a life with Obama Sr. in Kenya -- but soon enrolled at the University of Washington as a single mother -- and the timeline for these statements do not line up. It appears that right after Obama Jr. was born, Dunham moved to Washington to enter the University of Washington for the Autumn 1961 term. Some claim that she started classes at the University of Washington in Aug 1961 -- but we can only see that she started during the Autumn term and may have entered late. She did not return to Hawaii until the approximate date that Obama Sr. departed for Harvard in Jun 1962. She then enrolled in the UH in the Spring semester of 1963.

This means that they separated immediately. This would explain why none of Barrack Hussein Obama Sr.'s friends from Hawaii remember Ann or Barrack Obama Jr. When Obama Sr. left Hawaii in 1962, he never mentioned Ann Dunham or Barack Hussein Obama Jr. to even his closest friends. (See conversation with Neil Aborcrombie, U.S. Representative from Hawaii, and Pake Zane, now an antique store owner, who were Obama's friends at the UH.)

Obama Jr. has never produced records of his supposed parent's marriage or divorce. (Investigators dug up the Obama-Dunham divorce paperwork in Jan 2009. In the divorce paperwork, Ann Dunham declares that there was a legal wedding. As the divorce was uncontested, the paperwork went through. However, skeptics state that the divorce paperwork is "proof" only if you believe that Ann Dunham didn't perjure herself in order to (1) validate an non-existent wedding and (2) legalize the offspring, Barack Hussein Obama II.)

It appears that only after Obama departed Hawaii for Harvard did Dunham return with Obama Jr. in the summer of 1962. (See Ann Dunham-Obama registrar records from University of Washington and University of Hawaii. Dunham was enrolled in the University of Washington for the Spring 1962 -- and assumed that she returned in the summer of 1962 to Hawaii. She enrolls in the UH in the Spring 1963 till Summer 1966 -- and she completes her BA degree in 1967.)

Others interpreted the attendance at University of Washington as some sort of coverup. Atlas Shrugs posited: The big question is how was Ann having Barack in Honolulu in Aug 1961 AND enrolled at the U of Washington the same month?

• Late in 1960 - After Ann Dunham graduates from Mercer Island High School, the Dunhams relocate to Hawaii.
• Sept 26 1960 - First day at Univ of Hawaii for Ann Dunham -- she entered 6 weeks late
• One month later - conception in October or November 1960
• Two months later - drops out of University of Hawaii in Nov 1960
• Three months later - married on 2 Feb 1961
• 10 months later -- gives birth to Obama Jr. on 4 Aug 1961
• 10 months later - back in Washington attending classes at University of Washington in August -- Autumn semester
• 20 months later -- Obama Sr. departs Hawaii for Harvard in Jun 1962. He starts Harvard in Sep 1962. Ann Dunham returns to Hawaii in Jun 1962 -- end of Spring term -- and later enrolls for the Spring semester at the Univ of Hawaii in 1963.

Barack Hussein Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in the remote village of Alego, Kenya. He belonged to the Luo tribe, one of the nation's largest. Bright and enterprising, he became in 1959 part of the first large wave of African students to study abroad. With a scholarship to the University of Hawaii, the 23-year-old quickly fell into a small group of graduate students who met on Friday evenings to eat pizza, drink beer and talk world politics and economics.

"He was an intellectual in every sense of the word," recalls U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, who was part of the inner circle. "He was the sun, and the other planets revolved around him."

It wasn't long before the elder Obama brought another planet into their orbit, an 18-year-old white freshman from Wichita, Kan., Stanley Ann Dunham (so named because her father had wanted a boy). In late 1960, despite concerns from both families, Obama and Dunham were married. On Aug. 4, 1961, Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born.

The fact that there was a marriage at all — such interracial unions were banned in 22 states — reflected, as Abercrombie saw it, his friend's incredible confidence and daring, traits the younger Obama would later display as a politician. But the marriage did not last long. When Obama Sr. won a scholarship to study at Harvard in 1963, and didn't have the money to take his young family with him, some were not surprised that he didn't return.

"At 18, Ann Obama dropped out of college after one semester, according to University of Hawaii records.Then, when Obama was almost 1, his father left for Harvard to get a Ph.D. in economics. He had also been accepted to the New School in New York City, with a more generous scholarship that would have allowed his family to join him. But he decided to go to Harvard. "How can I refuse the best education?" he told Ann, according to Obama's book. (SITE NOTE: Obama Sr. started Harvard in Sep 1962 and received an Masters in Economics -- not a PhD.)

Obama's father had an agenda: to return to his home country and help reinvent Kenya. He wanted to take his new family with him. But he also had a wife from a previous marriage there—a marriage that may or may not have been legal. In the end, Ann decided not to follow him. "She was under no illusions," says Abercrombie. "He was a man of his time, from a very patriarchal society." Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"—the reason given in most divorces at the time. Obama Sr. signed for the papers in Cambridge, Mass., and did not contest the divorce. (Source: Time Magazine.)

Later in August 1961, she visited old friends in Washington state with her new baby. Maxine Box, 65, was Dunham's best friend at Mercer Island High School, where they were members of the Class of 1960. Dunham and Box were part of a close group of girls who attended football games and sock hops but didn't really date. They listened to The Limeliters, The Kingston Trio, The Brothers Four. Their parents played cards together. Dunham and Box walked home together after school, usually stopping at Box's house for mint-chocolate cake before Dunham went on to the Shorewood apartments, where she lived with her parents. ... When her father took a job selling furniture in Hawaii, Dunham moved with them and enrolled in the University of Hawaii. Not long after, Dunham wrote Box that she had met a Kenyan grad student named Barack Obama. They married and had a son. ... Box last saw her friend in 1961, when she visited Seattle on her way from Honolulu to Massachusetts, where her then-husband was attending Harvard. "She seemed very happy and very proud," she said. "She had this beautiful, healthy baby. I can see them right now." (Source: Seattle Times.)

But all doubts dissipated when she passed through Mercer Island in 1961 with her month-old son. "She provided a very different role" from other mothers of her day, said Susan Blake, the former Susan Botkin. "She was so proud of her baby, so relaxed, so self-possessed - excited about the future," said Blake, who changed Barry's diaper. "Susan Blake, another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband's plans to return to Kenya." (Source: Barack Obama's mother more than just a Kansas girl", The Lawrence Journal-World and Martin, Jonathan. "Obama's mother known here as 'uncommon'".)

There is scant evidence of the relationship between Barack Obama and Ann Dunham. Obama's friends have little or no memory of her. Obama relates two stories, a first date where Obama Sr was late and a dinner at the Dunham home where his maternal Grandparents failed to notice their daughter holding her "friends hand". I chuckle when I read this second reference, a clear Obama fabrication - as Obama grows older he will realize how transparent this fabrication is to all men who have daughters, or to those daughters who now have daughters of their own - it is not remotely possible for a man's daughter to sit at the dinner table and "secretly" hold hands with her "friend" without both parents, particularly the father, not knowing exactly what is going on….. and it doesn't matter if the parents approve or disaprove of the young man.

What is clear is this, based on the account in "Dreams", Ann Dunham met Barack Obama in September 1960. Two months later she was expecting Barack Obama Jr..

Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Senior were said to have married before a justice of the peace on the island of Maui on February 2, 1961, by which time the now eighteen year old Ann's pregnancy was known to both of them. The wedding had no witnesses, not even her parents, and no record of the event has yet been found. The only evidence that suggests a February, 1961 date for the wedding was a document included in Ann Dunham's 1964 divorce proceedings against Obama Senior. (Christian Faith and Reason.)

The lack of any documentary evidence, when such evidence for legal marriages that took place in Hawaii during 1961 is readily available today to any inquiring family member, strongly suggests [to some] that Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Senior were not ever legally married. The State of Hawaii maintains all marriage records in its Department of Vital Records, a part of the Department of Health. Its website states that any family member can request copies of valid marriage certificates by simply paying a small fee. If Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama were legally married on February 2, 1961, the marriage certificate is maintained by the Hawaii Department of Vital Records, and a copy of it can be made available to any blood relative easily. (Christian Faith and Reason.)

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 at 7:52 PM in Honolulu, Hawaii. Stanley Ann Dunham was listed as the maiden name of the mother and Barack Obama was listed as the name of the father in the document put forward that appears to be a State of Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth. The document was filed on August 8, 1961. There is no indication that Barack Obama Senior was present at the birth of his third child. Stanley Ann's high school classmate Susan Blake had the impression that he was not there, and may not even have been on the island of Hawaii at the time, but no other contemporary has any recollections on this issue one way or the other. (Christian Faith and Reason.) (SITE NOTE: We are NOT certain what is on the birth CERTIFICATE (vault copy) because Obama has refused to release it. It is possible that Obama was actually born without a father listed -- and it was legally entered in 1971. There are also other possibilities and this item is left open until the birth certificate is revealed.)

Strangely, there is no documentation that would support the fact that Barack Obama and Ann Dunham Obama ever cohabitated. True, one not need cohabitate to impregnate, but, the failure to cohabitate, even after the pregnancy & marriage, certainly raises questions in this writer's mind about the legitimacy of the Obama account in "Dreams".

Obama biographer David Mendell reports that after the birth of Barack Jr., in late August or early September, Barack Obama Senior rented a small one floor house near the campus of the University of Hawaii, ostensibly as a home for his young wife and their new son. It's not clear how much time, if any, the Obama family spent there together, living under the same roof. (Christian Faith and Reason.) (SITE NOTE: This could be the house in Kaimuki which could be considered "close" to the University. But again we get back to the original question as to why Obama according to public records lived in this house AT THE SAME TIME as the birth of Obama.)

Prior to this time Obama had continued to live at the YMCA, while Ann Obama continued to live with her parents. Stanley Ann Dunham arrived in Hawaii in June 1960. Within 11 months she met both Frank Marshall Davis and Barack Obama Sr., conceived Barack Obama Jr and left Hawaii to return to Mercer Island with her infant son but without her "husband". (Christian Faith and Reason.)

Blake recalls that Dunham, who was calling herself Ann Obama at the time, visited her at her house in Mercer Island during the last week of August, 1961. She left Honolulu just as soon she had clearance from her doctor to travel with her new baby. He was just 3 weeks old. She had sent a postcard that she would be in town, and was staying with a friend of her mother's. She drove out to my house in her mother?s friend's car, and we spent the entire day together. She was very excited about her new life, and her husband. She was nuts about him, crazy in love. I was under the impression that he had left Honolulu before Barack's birth, that he had gone to Harvard already for his studies, and that Ann was on her way to join him there. She planned on raising her son, getting a job, and attending school, she told me. Her husband would head back to Kenya after graduating from Harvard to join the newly formed government, and she would take her place beside him. It was all very exciting, a dramatic change in her life in the one year since she had graduated from high school." (Washington Post and Christian Faith and Reason.)

Another high school classmate, Maxine Box, recalls visiting with Stanley Ann Dunham and her new born baby a week or two later, in early September 1961. I remember it was a sunny day, and I visited Stanley at the house of the friend she was staying with on Mercer Island. We talked for about an hour, mostly about her new baby, Barack Obama Junior. I recall that she said she was on her way to join her husband, but I don?t recall where that was. We didn?t talk much about her husband or her plans, we talked mostly about the baby. Like most of my friends, I was shocked at the turn of events. Stanley Ann was only a year out of high school and was already married with a child. I never thought that she was someone who wanted to get married. She was always someone who seemed focus on getting an education. (Christian Faith and Reason.)

As previously noted, Obama Sr. graduated from the University of Hawaii in June of 1962 with a degree in mathematics and economics and a Phi Beta Kappa key in recognition of his academic excellence. He departed for Harvard on June 22, 1962. (Christian Faith and Reason.)

In "Dreams", Obama Jr notes, that the "story in the Star-Bulletin on the day he left, June 22, said Obama planned a several-weeks grand tour of mainland universities before he arrived at Harvard to study economics on a graduate faculty fellowship. The story did not mention that he had a wife and an infant son." Author and Washington Post writer David Marannis confirms this story. This should be framed in a new context, it is likely that Stanley Ann Dunham did not attend her husband?s graduation ceremony, she was in Seattle.

Some time between the late summer 1962 visit with Barbara Cannon Rusk at her Seattle apartment and January, 1964, when she filed for divorce against Barack Obama Senior, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama moved back to Honolulu from Seattle. She returned to live with her parents, rather than continue her efforts to raise Barack in Seattle as a single mother attending college. After her return she attended the University of Hawaii on an irregular, part time, basis.

Barack Senior finished his studies at Harvard in the spring of 1964 and immediately returned to Kenya. The amount of time Barack Obama Sr spent with his namesake, if, in fact he spent any time at all, is unknown. Obama Sr returned to Hawaii some 9 or 10 years later and spent a month with Barack Obama, Jr. (That visit will be dioscussed in a later installement). (Source: McCauley's World.)

Aug 1961 - After June 1962: Ann Dunham starts attending the University of Washington sometime in Sept 1961 for the Autumn semester. She resided at a house at 516 13th Ave. E. Apt 2 under the name of "Mrs. Anna Obama" a student. (Source: Capitol Hill Times.) (SITE NOTE: We noticed that Ann Dunham used a new alias as "Anna Obama" in the 1961 Directory. The last date for posting was 10 Oct 1961 so she would have to have been in Washington state prior to October. It ties in with the Obama story in his "autobiography" that his mother called Obama Sr. "Bear-ick" and he called her Anna. Others have also noted that Frank Marshall wrote a porn novel of the seduction of a 14-year-old girl named "Anna" to somehow tie the two -- Ann Dunham-Frank Marshall -- into a sexual relationship.)

The only trouble with the Obama version that there was an "Obama family" after he was born for two years is that Ann Dunham immediately left for Washington State in Aug 1961 -- the same month Obama was born. The theory is that she departed approximately three weeks after Obama was born -- the minimum time a doctor could give the ok for a newborn infant to travel. The facts show that the "family relationship" was all a sham from the start. (Source: University of Washington, Office of Public Records and University of Hawaii, Registrar Office to Andy Martin. It appears that the World Net Daily is the original source. (WND.))


Timeline (World Net Daily)

The subject of whether Obama Sr. ditched Ann Dunham or vice versa was heatedly debated on the Wikipedia talk page. We hold that Ann Dunham ditched Obama Sr.

There were TWO separate emails -- one circulated in Sept 2008 from the University of Hawaii and one in Oct 2008 from the University of Washington. The University of Hawaii email contained nothing that wasn't already on public record. However, the University of Washington email did create a stir behind the scenes because it showed Ann Dunham starting in Autumn 1961 -- during the time when she was supposed to be in Hawaii with her "family."

It should be noted that Wikipedia refused to place the information from the University of Washington onto its pages because of claims that it was "unsourced." If one looks at the comments, it is plain that Obama supporters did NOT want the University of Washington Office of Public Records email to appear. There was a concerted drive to keep this email on Ann Dunham's registration at the University of Washington from being used as a "source" on Wikipedia -- and once prevented, the material itself was prevented from appearing.

The email message was discredited simply because it was REPRINTED on "Atlas Shrugs" -- NOT because it was from the University of Washington records source with a reputable name and phone number. Because Atlas Shrugs and Andy Martin -- whose reputations are viewed as fringe elements. To make matters worse, the popular conservative sites (i.e., Citizen Wells, America's Right, etc.) did NOT circulate the email -- though it appeared in various comments under the postings.

From: pubrec@u.washington.edu [mailto:pubrec@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:24 PM
To: bdienst (SITE NOTE: B-Dienst was a WWII German code breaking organization. It appears that Andy Martin did NOT initiate the emails but received it second-hand. "Bddienst" is a name used in Wikipedia (talk) in discussing this email.)
Subject: Re: Stanley "Ann" Dunham 1960 to 1970 class registration
Ms. Stanley Ann Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington for:
Autumn 1961
Winter 1962
Spring 1962
The records responsive to your request from the University of Washington are above as provided by the Public Disclosure Laws of Washington State. This concludes the University's response to your Public Records request. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any questions or concerns.
Madolyne Lawson
Office of Public Records
206-543-9180


University of Washington Transcript (World Net Daily)

The university confirmed that Dunham's classes starting in the fall of 1961 were night classes. The transcript clearly documents that Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle for two classes that began on Aug. 19, 1961: Anthropology 100, "Introduction to the Study of Man" and Political Science 201, "Modern Government."

NOTICE THE START DATE OF THE CLASS. It is 15 days after the birth of Obama.

There are numerous awkward questions left unanswered by Ann Dunham appearing in Washington state. According to the World Net Daily's Jerome Corsi:

Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, was registered for college classes in Seattle only 15 days after reportedly delivering her first-born child in Honolulu, according to school records obtained by WND.

How Dunham was able to travel the 2,680 air miles from Honolulu to Seattle only a few days after the birth of her baby is not disclosed in the currently available public record concerning President Obama's birth.

Nor is there anything on the public record to explain how Dunham managed to find an apartment and relocate with her infant son so she could begin taking university classes within 15 days of the baby's birth.

There is also nothing on the public record to suggest Madelyn Dunham, Ann Dunham's mother, or any other family member preceded or accompanied Dunham to Seattle in August 1961 to help the new mother and infant son find appropriate living arrangements and complete the university's enrollment process prior to beginning classes. (Source: WND.)

The transcript also shows that Dunham was enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle as a "nonresident citizen," which meant she would not be able to take advantages of the tuition breaks she should have been able to receive if she had continued her studies as resident student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

WND previously reported that in Seattle, Dunham took up residence at 516 13th Ave. E. in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle.

Mary Toutonghi, according to an interview published in the Seattle Chat Club blog, claimed to have baby-sat for the future president at Dunham's Seattle apartment in January and February 1962. The Toutongi interview provides no information about Dunham arriving in Seattle to begin classes in the autumn of 1961.

When asked why Dunham left her husband in Hawaii to come to Seattle with her infant son, Toutonghi explained Dunham told her that she and the baby would be going to Kenya when she finished her education, as she had promised her parents when she was married.

Toutonghi also added Dunham's explanation that her husband had an obligation to his tribe to take another wife that was a full-blooded Kenyan. Toutongi further commented, "I don't think I could have been that brave."

In an interview with WND, Toutonghi said she baby-sat for infant Obama "for two or three months, when he was seven months old," adding "it was in the spring."

Given Obama's birth on Aug. 4, 1961, this would put the dates Toutongi baby-sat infant Obama in February and March 1962. "My daughter was 18 months old and she just had her 50th birthday this year," Toutonghi recalled. "So, that would make the time around February and March 1962." "Ann Dunham and the baby moved in while we were there," she remembered. "We managed the house and they had the rooms on the first floor to the right, immediately above the garage. Each of the rooms on that floor comprised a one-bedroom apartment. I can't remember when she moved in, but the baby was seven months old." "It was kind of weird, but she never told me why she abandoned her husband," she commented. "I don't know if the courses she wanted were here. I couldn't figure out why she was here in Seattle while her husband was in Hawaii."

Barack Jr. apparently was only a few days old for the travel from Hawaii to Seattle, probably in an airplane that could have taken nine or 10 hours for the trip. In deciding to take her child and move to Seattle, Ann Dunham abandoned her husband, Barack Obama, who stayed behind in Hawaii, evidently to continue his studies at the University of Hawaii.

This now-documented account of President Obama's birth timeline differs dramatically from the narrative the president told in his autobiography "Dreams of My Father."

In that book, President Obama claimed his mother remained with him in Hawaii until 1962 when supposedly Barack Obama Sr. made the decision to abandon Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii because Harvard did not provide sufficient funds for him to take his family with him to Cambridge, Mass., to begin his studies at Harvard in September 1962.

Ann Dunham's transcript from the University of Washington in Seattle shows she continued to take classes there through the spring term 1962, which suggests that Ann Dunham not only abandoned Barack Obama Sr. in Hawaii, but also that she remained in Seattle to continue her studies there well into 1962. (Source: WND.)

She stopped by to see her friends at Mercer, WA in Aug 1961 to establish her "cover story" of being married with infant child -- and Obama Sr. had gone to Harvard. However, Obama Sr. was still in Hawaii.

She enrolled in the University of Washington in the Autumn semester of 1961 and lived as a "single mother" on Capitol Hill. Obama continued his life and never mentioned Ann Dunham or Obama Jr. to his closest friends. At the time of birth, the birth announcement in the newspaper stated the address as 6085 Kalaniana'ole Hwy, but Obama Sr. lived at 625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki. He departed Hawaii in the same month he graduated -- Jun 1962. (SITE NOTE: There is a conflicting story saying she went to Washington in 1962 -- leaving Obama Jr. behind -- though it doesn't explain how she entered the U of W in 1961 and Obama Sr. never recognized Ann Dunham to his closest friends in 1962. "But she returned to live in Seattle around 1962, after Barack was born in August 1961, leaving her husband, Kenya-born Barack Sr., and his newborn namesake in Hawaii. She lived on Capitol Hill and enrolled at the University of Washington." See Anderson, Rick."Putting One of Our Own in (or Near) the White House", Seattle Weekly (2008-10-21).


The president-elect's Seattle residence in 1961. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Branch, King County Assessor Property Record Card collection photograph (1937).

Very little has been written about President-elect Barack Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham's time here in Seattle. Brief articles and even briefer accounts from schoolmates make the person who was the most influential person in Obama's life all the more intriguing. A single mother who enrolled in the University of Washington in 1961 and signed up for 1962 extension program, she likely came across many social prejudices in the predominantly all-white campus.

Perhaps Ann Obama felt more at ease in the diverse neighborhood of Capitol Hill, which housed many students from the neighboring colleges. Recently located was a listing for Stanley Ann Obama in the 1961 Polk directory at the Seattle Public Library: "Obama Anna Mrs studt h516 13th Ave. E. apt. 2" So it seems there is no denying the fact that the next president of the United States' had a residence here in Seattle on Capitol Hill Seattle, albeit as a diapered infant.

The apartment house was in the 500 block of 13th Avenue East between East Republican and Mercer streets, but it no longer exists. This 1937 photo of the apartment house shows a three-story, 21-room house. Stanley Ann Obama and an infant Barack, it is believed, lived on the second floor. Of note, Roy Olmstead, 76 ¬¬- Seattle's famous bootlegger - lived just up the block at 535 13th Ave. E. And Bruce Lee was then attending the University of Washington at the same time as Stanley Ann Obama. (Source: Capitol Hill Times.) (SITE NOTE: Free Republic stated "All I know is that cut off date for inclusion in the directory is Oct.10th, I don’t know when the information was collected, although from my experience it was collected from May through June for the directory where I used to live."


Notice the name is "MRS. ANNA OBAMA" in the Capitol Hills directory -- listed as a student residing at 516 13th Avenue East, Apartment 2.

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Seattle Times journalist Jonathan Martin reports that some high school classmates recall visiting her and her young son alternately at the Laurelhurst student housing, then at a Capitol Hill apartment during the period that stretched from March 1962 to at least September 1962. (Christian Faith and Reason.) In March, 1962, Stanley Ann Dunham enrolled as a full time student at the University of Washington for the spring quarter, which continued until June, 1962, earning 10 credit hours that quarter. She also rented her own apartment. Christian Faith and Reason.)

Another class mate, Barbara Cannon Rusk, recalls visiting Stanley Ann Dunham and her baby son Barack at her apartment on Capitol Hill in Seattle shortly after the end of these spring quarter classes. (1962). (Christian Faith and Reason.) I had moved to Utah for a while after high school, and I came back to Seattle in the summer of 1962. I remember visiting the World's Fair, and then stopping by Stanley Ann's apartment on Capitol Hill. It was a small apartment, upstairs. It was after June, and could have been as late as September, 1962. I visited her for half a day or so. It was after the end of the spring quarter classes, and she wasn't in classes, and didn't have a job. I recall her being melancholy at the time. I had a sense that something wasn't right in her marriage. It was all very mysterious. First, her husband wasn't there, he was already off in Harvard. I didn't ask her about the relationship, feeling it was a private matter. My daughter Michelle was just a few weeks younger than Stanley's son, who she called Barry, and they played together on the floor. (Chrisitian Faith and Reason.)

While Stanley Ann Dunham was living in Seattle, Barack Obama Senior finished his senior year at the University of Hawaii. The Kenyan sponsor who had covered most of Barack Obama Senior's expenses while he studied at the University of Hawaii, Ella Kirk, wrote to Tom Mboya asking him to fund Obama Senior's graduate studies, preferably at Harvard, in May of 1962. No mention was made in the request of the need to fund the living expenses for his wife and son.

As with Susan Blake and Maxine Box, Barbara Cannon Rusk never saw her friend Stanley Ann Dunham again.

A newspaper story on the day he left, June 22, said Obama planned a several-weeks grand tour of Mainland universities before he arrived at Harvard to study economics on a graduate faculty fellowship. The story did not mention that he had a wife and an infant son. Many years later, Barack Jr., then in high school, found a clipping of the article in a family stash of birth certificates and old vaccination forms. Why wasn't his name there, or his mother's? He wondered, he later wrote, "whether the omission caused a fight between my parents." (Source: David Maraniss, Washington Post.)

1962: Ann Dunham returns with Obama Jr. to Hawaii sometime after Jun 1962 AFTER Obama Sr. has left. Dunham returned to Hawaii after completing the Spring semester at the University of Washington in 1962. She took a break and resettled into the Hawaii routine missing the Fall and Winter semesters of 1962 before she reapplied to reenter the University of Hawaii for the Spring Semester in 1963. She lived with parents upon her return. The senior Dunhams had moved into Apartment 110 of a six-year-old building at 1427 Alexander Street, records show. After Ann Dunham returned to the U.S. she moved out to an apartment of her own.


Ann Dunham's transcript from University of Washington (Note that 20 credits from "extension courses" (night classes); 10 credits from regular classes (Spring 1962); and 8 credits transferred from University of Hawaii)

From: Stuart Lau [mailto:stuartl@hawaii.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008
Subject: Re: Inquiry
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham:
Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 - Summer 1966
Fall 1972 - Fall 1974
Summer 1976
Spring 1978
Fall 1984 - Summer 1992
Degrees awarded:
BA - Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967)
MA - Anthropology, Fall 1983 (December 18, 1983)
PhD - Anthropology, Summer 1992 (August 9, 1992)
Sincerely, Stuart Lau
****************************************

Stuart Lau
University Registrar
Office of Admissions and Records
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph: (808) 956-8010

(Source: University of Washington, Office of Public Records and University of Hawaii, Registrar Office to Andy Martin on Obami Blog on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 Andymart20@aol.com; and Atlas Shrugs. It appears that the World Net Daily reconfirmed the original source by persons unknown. (WND.))


University of Hawaii Transcript (World Net Daily)

It is obvious that Ann Dunham returned to Hawaii AFTER Obama departed as she was enrolled in the University of Washington through the end of the SPRING semester of 1962. The classes would be completed after Obama has already left for Harvard. Then Ann Dunham returned to Hawaii.

Stuart Lau, registrar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, confirmed to WND that Ann Dunham attended the fall term 1960 and did not resume studies at that university until the spring term 1963. Lau also confirmed to WND that Barack Obama, Sr. attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa from the fall term 1959 through the spring term 1962. This confirms the conclusion that Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr. never lived together as man and wife after the birth of Barack Obama, Jr., on Aug. 4, 1961. (Source: WND.)

From this we surmise that there was no relationship between Dunham and Obama instead of the "illusion" that there was a two year marriage between 1961-1963. In fact, there was NO physical relationship and the fantasy that Obama builds up about his father may be all fiction. It is most likely that they never saw one another after Aug 1961 and led separate lives from that point on.


Obama undated


Obama at Waikiki (Maya Soetoro-Ng)


Obama at Waikiki (Maya Soetoro-Ng)


Obama with Grandfather at Waikiki (Maya Soetoro-Ng)


Obama at beach (Maya Soetoro-Ng)


Obama 1965

(SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT Some critics believe that there was no legal marriage. There has never been a marriage certificate found and the only "proof" is Ann Dunham's statement in her divorce complaint that they were married in Wailuku, Maui on 2 Feb 1961. The one sticking point no one mentions is that Ann Dunham was under the age of 18 at the time and BOTH her parents were required to give consent. If one believes the Obama story, no consent was given and Ann Dunham and Obama eloped to Maui. Unfortunately, the marriage would be considered invalid. If so, Ann Dunham perjured herself on the divorce documents.)

The Courant article stated, "Ann Dunham filed for divorce in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering," according to court documents. Whatever anger she felt, she did not share it with her son. She made a point of telling Barry that his smarts, character and charm came from his father. Years later, when he became upset about his father's behavior, she counseled against judging him too harshly." (SITE NOTE: The divorce paperwork was filed in Aug 1964 and the final decree was in Nov 1964.)

On 3 Jan 2009, Plains Radio's Ed Hale obtained copies of the divorce paperwork -- though they had been seen by others in early 2008. The now defunct online magazine Christian Faith and Reason also referred to the divorce paperwork contents in early 2008 indicating that they had seen it, but it was never released. Other sources have quoted that the divorce paperwork was for "grievous mental suffering" indicating that they had access to the paperwork as well. Immediately following Ed Hale's announcement that he had the documents, the copies were distributed and investigated by all the major conservative internet media sources. Initially, there was enormous excitement that some new evidence had been discovered to prove or disprove the "natural born citizen" by foreign birth, but again this was all speculation.


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Page 2 -- This is the reference that Obama Sr and Ann Dunham were "lawfully married" in Wailuku, Maui though no marriage license/certificate has been found.


Page 3 -- This page acknowledge "Barack Hussein Obama II" as offspring of the marriage.


Page 4 -- Ann Dunham swears the aforementioned items are true.


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Page 12 (NOTE Page 10-11 missing). Free Republic claims the missing pages are Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

The Free Republic feels the missing page (pg 10-11) deal with the Kenyan birth ceriticate -- and surfaces the possibility that Obama's team has already gotten to the files to "purge" it of any incriminating data. It said:

"I have since come to learn that Obama and his team of lawyers have been working to sanitize his records since he announced that he’d run for President circa November 2004. Now in the White House, he’s still ACTIVELY blocking subpoenas for such documents as his Cambridge and Occidental College records TODAY – the same type of documents promised to be made available during his campaign. Obama and his lawyers are exceedingly adept at exploiting loopholes in Hawaiian birth certificate law to keep Obama’s past hidden from the American people.

This missing page – page 11 – very likely is a copy of the original birth certificate, based upon the prima facie timeline of the 1964 divorce. The Kenya birth certificate was likely requested on Jan 23, 1964 by either Judge King (to award custody on the next trial date), or recommended to Ann Dunham by her attorney for the ex parte divorce, where only one parent was expected to be present.

The missing page, 11, should be chronologically-numbered as all other pages were in the original docket file, by the court clerk at the time. Starting at page 8, Exhibit A is placed where it would have occurred by date in the paperwork (and appeared on microfiche), even denoting an erased, yet barely-readable “8? on both pages of the returned notification sent to Obama SR. The missing page, numbered as page 11, would likely be a page that would have been admitted to the divorce file sometime in mid- to late-February 1964 – almost as if it were an undocumented “Exhibit B”....

... In Hawaii, birth certificates are not Public Record. If the Kenya birth certificate was a part of the divorce decree, it may have been pulled out at the end of the trial, or more recently by a watchful archivist or attorneys wishing to remove unfavorable information about Obama. (Source: Free Republic.)

SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT This paperwork appears to disprove the theory that Obama was NOT listed on the birth certificate and that he was registered under his mother's name. "Barack Hussein Obama II" is named in the document therefore indicating paternity by "Barack Hussein Obama I" of Cambridge, MA. The bottomline is that even if Obama's father was not listed on his birth certificate, it would be irrelevant in the case. This is "proof" that Obama Sr. was his father and this is "proof" that Obama was born a dual citizen and not a "natural born citizen." Obama Sr. has accepted paternity.

But as we have stated, it is all based upon the word of Ann Dunham who swore that there was a "legal marriage" and that "Barack Hussein Obama II" was the offspring of this marriage. Remember that no proof has been found by private investigators searching for any type of marriage certificate in Honolulu and Maui. There is no proof -- other than the divorce decree -- that the marriage ever took place. This divorce decree is the only proof that there was a marriage -- and it is based solely on Ann Dunham's word. As we stated before, if Ann Dunham perjured herself about their being a "legal marriage" while she was underage, the "proof" suddenly evaporates as her entire statement on the divorce paperwork is tainted.

There are no pages marked 8 through 11. Just 1 through 7, plus 12. Ed Hale believed he would have copies of the missing four pages on 7 Jan, but no pages turned up. Ed Hale speculated that they could be child support papers -- which could possibly refer to Obama's birthplace -- but the way we read the divorce decree there was NO child support and held in abeyance at the discretion of Ann Dunham. Again -- pages 8 through 11 are missing.

It is interesting the comments of a Plains Radio listener who aided in the transport of the documents. He talked with the Private Investigator (PI) and the comments were illuminating in that the PI stated that the documents were "hidden." The commenter stated: "Additionally, I personally spoke with the PI in Hawaii myself Wednesday morning. Let me pass on what I can relay at this time:"

• as I understand, because the decree was Certified, it came straight from the Court House to Ed; the PI did not have the opportunity to copy or fax it. (If you've ever ordered an old deed or lien that has to be copied from archived records or microfiche, it's much the same — it's mailed directly to the requester ...)
• The PI did seem to have looked at the Digest version of the Divorce Decree, not the full version Ed is getting. His words to me, was “it's very interesting”
• The PI did not know if the document indicated Obama Jr's place of birth. However, in the early 60s in Hawaii, the place of birth oftentimes does appear in the notes.
• He told me also that the divorce decree was VERY hard to find and not readily searchable — not just a $30 fee at the counter. Significant research had to be conducted. It seems to have been hidden, possibly by Ann Dunham in her youth. (IMO, if it HAD been found already, Berg would have put it on his site along with other docs he's posted: http://www.obamacrimes.info/justthefacts.html. This is NEW documentation)
• The PI indicated that there's evidence that Ann used at least one alias tied to this. It's common knowledge that she used many names (Dunham, Soetoro, Sutoro, and variations thereof).
• There are other copies of the Divorce Decree going other places — the one going to Ed is NOT the only copy! There are back-ups going to other parties.

(SITE NOTE: But this brings even more questions as to why AFTER the divorce didn't Ann Dunham correct the birth certificate legally using the divorce paperwork as proof of paternity by Barack Obama Sr. It would only cost something like $50 in those days -- including lawyer fees. Perhaps she did and changed his name to "Barry Dunham" at the same time, but that raises even more questions. THIS IS WHY THIS THEORY DOESN'T SELL WELL. If you want to list screwball theories, what if Frank Marshall Davis was listed as the biological father on the birth certificate. Then we have a problem where Ann Dunham could not attempt to change it without admitting that she perjured herself in the divorce paperwork. This theory also raises more questions. NOTHING SELLS EXCEPT THAT OBAMA WAS EITHER BORN AS "BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II" ON HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE -- OR OBAMA WAS BORN FATHERLESS. The only problem is that you can't prove either case without the vault copy of the birth certificate.

IMPORTANT If Obama was fatherless on his birth certificate, the only possible reason Ann Dunham would not have filed for a change on the birth certificate AFTER the divorce is that she would immediately be found to have perjured herself. She would need a lawyer to complete the legal paperwork, but it would be obvious to any trained professional that the "proof" of paternity in the divorce decree would be false. No lawyer would touch this action with a ten-foot pole. According to our theory, no action was taken until 1971 when Obama returned from Kenya and Ann Dunham from Indonesia to legally input Obama Sr. as Obama Jr.'s biological father. This legal action would have nothing to tie it to the divorce decree. BUT AGAIN ONE NEEDS THE VAULT COPY OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO PROVE ANYTHING.)

(SITE NOTE: The romantic Obama campaign account about the Ann Dunham's love of anthropology doesn't jibe. In 1967, Ann Dunham graduated from the UH with a BA in Mathematics -- not anthropology. Ann Dunham received a BA - Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967) from University of Hawaii. Only after her return from Indonesia did she pursue a Masters in Anthropology.

There is a question whether Lolo Soetoro adopted Obama while in Hawaii. We believe that Obama was NOT adopted in Hawaii, but rather in Indonesia. This allowed Obama to attend Indonesian public schools rather than the very expensive International Schools for foreign students. However, this cannot be proven or disproven as Obama refuses to provide information nor will he provide the vault copy of his birth certificate that would show any adoption in Hawaii. We believe that the name "Barry Soetoro" is NOT annotated on his birth certificate as a legal name change because in 1971 Obama entered the Punahou School in the 5th grade as "Barry Dunham" in what would be his mother's maiden name -- and taken from the birth certificate as the legal name. We further propose that Ann Dunham returned from Indonesia just before Obama Sr. returned from Kenya in Dec 1971. Obama Sr. remained in Hawaii for one month and we hypothesize that it was at this point that Obama was legally entered as "Barack Hussein Obama II" on the birth certificate. After this was done, Obama was registered at Punahou as "Barack Hussein Obama" but went by the name "Barry Obama" for the remainder of his time at Punahou.

IMPORTANT We further believe that up until 1993, Obama exploited this Indonesian citizenship to maintain a passport and Indonesian citizenship under the name of "Barry Soetoro." As this name is not reflected in U.S. records -- i.e., his birth certificate as a legal name change -- the two bureaucratic systems did not interface. We believe that Obama might have obtained his original Indonesian passport in 1970 for his 1971 return to Hawaii alone. This passport would be renewed in 1975 -- and then again in 1980, 1985 and 1990. We believe that Obama made many overseas trips on these passports and maintained his Indonesian identity for financial gain through the obtaining of foreign student scholarship/grants/loans and preferential treatment in entry to schools as a foreign exchange student. We also believe that there is a massive paper trail at the Indonesian consulates in Hawaii/Chicago and New York. However, the problem is that the records of Indonesia dealing with Obama have been sealed by the Indonesian government after Obama became President-elect. We also believe there is a paper trail in records of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service under the name of "Barry Soetoro" applications for student visas renewed up to Obama's graduation from Harvard.

As far as we know, no one in the mainstream media has ever attempted to look into this angle of Obama as they have fallen head-over-heels in love with Obama and stopped doing any investigative reporting. Up until the present, only the British and Italians have done any investigative reporting on Obama -- with the main facts coming from blogs implementing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.)

IMPORTANT However, we have reason to believe that Obama was adopted in Indonesia -- not Hawaii -- because he was enrolled in Punahou in 1971 as "Barry Dunham" -- not "Barry Soetoro". If he had been adopted in Hawaii in 1967, his birth certificate would have been altered to show him as "Barry Soetoro." "Barry Soetoro" was NOT on his birth certificate or else this is what he would have been enrolled at Punahou under in 1971. We believe that Obama was NOT adopted in Hawaii, but rather in Indonesia. This allowed Obama to attend Indonesian public schools rather than the very expensive International Schools for foreign students that the Soetoros could not afford.

We believe the conversion to Indonesian citizenship and name change to "Barry Soetoro" was simply a financial consideration -- not a change in faith. Obama would have been considered a "casual Muslim" who only accompanied Lolo Soetoro to the mosque on high holy days.

Also note that we still do have a problem as to how "Barry Obama" at Noelani School in 1967 became "Barry Dunham" at Punahou in 1970 and then "Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama" in 1971. We will cover this question under "1971" upon his return to the U.S. -- and the various possibilities.

International Schools in any country are VERY expensive and only open to those with foreign citizenship. Obama being a U.S. citizen would probably have qualified -- if there was room. However, we believe that Soetoro's job as a army geologist would have placed him only in the Indonesian middle class -- and unable to afford the extremely expensive schools. However, as Obama was NOT an Indonesian, the adoption was the only alternative to assure that Obama received an education in the Indonesian public schools -- which would have denied him entry as a foreign citizen (U.S.).

Ann took a job teaching English at the U.S. embassy. She woke up well before dawn throughout her life. Now she went into her son's room every day at 4 a.m. to give him English lessons from a U.S. correspondence course. She couldn't afford the élite international school and worried he wasn't challenged enough. After two years at the Catholic school, Obama moved to a state-run elementary school closer to the new house. He was the only foreigner, says Ati Kisjanto, a classmate, but he spoke some Indonesian and made new friends. (Source: Time Magazine.)

IMPORTANT Because at the time, Indonesia did not have a dual citizenship provision, Obama became an Indonesian without any problem -- BUT the U.S. did not recognize the change in citizenship because minors' citizenship is NOT affected by the actions of adults or legal guardians. Therefore Obama remained a U.S. citizen -- and the Indonesian name change would NOT have been reflected on his Hawaii birth certificate. In essence, "Barry Soetoro" and "Barry Dunham"/"Barack Obama" were two separate entities.

As long as no one cross-checked, these two identities could co-exist without problems. "Barry Soetoro" could maintain an Indonesian passport obtained in 1970, renewed in 1975 and again in 1980 (valid till 1985) on which it was possible to make trips to Pakistan/Indonesia in 1971, Kenya in 1978, and Bali, Indonesia in 1993 and Kenya again ca. 1993. All he had to do was every five years contact the Indonesian embassy/consulate of his intentions to pursue a student visa in America. He would have obtained an F-1 student visa from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and extended it whenever he changed schools. After 1995, Obama allowed the passport to lapse as he was now becoming a high profile public figure as he entered Illinois state politics. He obtained a U.S. passport in 2003 when he became a U.S. senator as a requirement for going on fact-finding missions.

(Note that there are other advantages to having a foreign passport. Some advantages are trivial. For example, if one is a drinker, one could obtain an international drivers' license for $10 and if caught drunk produce the document and one's passport. If one is a long-term foreign student, one can obtain credit cards and even a second Social Security Number. With the Social Security number, one could get a second driver's license -- default on your credit cards without ruining your credit history, thumb your nose at parking tickets, etc. There are all kinds of possibilities. However, the major advantage would be preferential treatment in applying for schools as a foreign student or applying for student loans/grants/scholarships. Unfortunately, all school records dealing with Obama are sealed -- Punahou, Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard. There is no way to cross-check. Unfortunately, no one in the mainstream media has checked this theory of seeking information on "Barry Soetoro" as it is rather extreme.)

In the meantime, Barry Dunham would disappear in 1971 and Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama would complete Punahou School in 1979. He would then reassume the name on his birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama II in Occidental College and continue along as though nothing had happened. EXCEPT IF HE APPLIED FOR FOREIGN STUDENT LOANS as "Barry Soetoro" using his Indonesian passport as proof at the time he attended school. If he did, there would be a paper trail, but all school records are sealed.

We believe went by "Barry Dunham" -- his mother's maiden name -- when he entered Punahou School in 1970. "Barry Dunham" was the legal name on his birth certificate because he was fatherless according to our theory. However, we also theorize that Obama Sr. from Kenya and Ann Dunham from Indonesia returned to Hawaii in 1971 to legalize his birth certificate and input the name, "Barack Hussein Obama II". (THIS IS UNPROVABLE WITHOUT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE.) Because the birth certificate and other records of Obama has been sealed or refused for release, it is impossible to ascertain if he was adopted in Hawaii or Indonesia -- or if he was adopted at all. However, we maintain that he was adopted in Indonesia because this makes the pieces of the puzzle fit.) (NOTE: We believe he entered Noelani School in 1966-1967 as "Barry Dunham" but he used "Barry Obama" as that was the "cover story" that was being used by Ann Dunham up to that time to cover his illegitimate birth. No school records have been found so this cannot be proved or disproved.)

Lolo Soetoro, Ann Dunham-Soetoro, Maya and Barry Soetoro (Maya Soetoro)

The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10. As a child in Indonesia, Barry Soetoro was adopted by Lolo Soetoro and became an Indonesian citizen. (SEE Is Obama an Indonesian?.)

By the time he was 6, Barry Obama was a hyper-aware boy with much to think about. His mother had returned to school at the University of Hawaii and had received a degree in what her family considered an unlikely major -- math. She had divorced Barack Obama Sr., who had finished his graduate work at Harvard and was back in Kenya, now living with a third woman. Ann had moved on and was soon to wed another international student, Lolo Soetoro, and follow him back to his home country, Indonesia, bringing Barry along. Her brief first marriage was in the past, Seattle in the remote distance, and Kansas farther still.

It was at this point that Barry developed a way of looking at his mother that essentially would last until her death three decades later. His take on her -- both the ways he wanted to be like her and how he reacted against her -- shaped him permanently and is central to understanding his political persona today, the contrast of an embracing, inclusive sensibility accompanied by an inner toughness and wariness. Starting at an early age, he noticed how his mother was curious and open, eager to find the best in people and situations, intent on softening the edges of the difficult world for her hapa son. There were many times when this made him think that she was naive, sometimes heartbreakingly so, and that he had to be the realist in the family. To some degree, especially as he tried to explain himself later in "Dreams From My Father," he seemed to use his mother as a foil, setting her up as the quintessential well-intentioned white liberal idealist as a contrast to his own coming of age as a modern black man.

Whether this perception reflected objective reality is open to question. In her dealings later as a community worker and anthropologist in Indonesia and around the world, Ann showed a keen appreciation of the power structure and how to work with it or around it, and her doctoral thesis and other writings reveal a complex understanding of people and their motivations, free of dreamy idealism and wishful thinking. But she certainly tried to present the world in the most hopeful, unthreatening light to her children, first Barry and then his little sister, Maya, the daughter she bore with Soetoro.

As Maya explained recently, looking back on the way she and her brother were raised: "[She wanted to] make sure that nothing ever became acrimonious and that everything was pretty and everything was sacred and everything was properly maintained and respected -- all the cultural artifacts and ways of being and living and thinking. We didn't need to make choices. We didn't need to discard anything. We could just have it all and keep it all. It was this sense of bounty and beauty."

The son's notion of his loving mother's naivete began in Indonesia, when they arrived in the capital city, Jakarta, in 1967, joining Soetoro, who had returned to his home country several months earlier. The place was a fantasia of the unfamiliar and grotesque to young Barry, with the exotic scent of danger. Monkeys, chickens and even crocodiles in the back yard. A land of floods, exorcisms, cockfights. Lolo was off working for Union Oil, Ann taught English at the U.S. Embassy, and Barry was overwhelmed in this strange new world. He recalled those days in his memoir with more acuity than he possibly could have had as a 6-year-old, but the words reflect his perceptions nonetheless.

His mother taught him history, math, reading and social studies, waking him at 4 each morning to give him special tutoring, pouring her knowledge into his agile brain. But it was left to his stepfather to orient him in the cruel ways of the world. Soetoro taught him how to fight and defend himself, how not to give money to beggars, how to deal strictly with servants, how to interact with the world on its own unforgiving terms, not defining everything as good or bad but merely as it is. " 'Your mother has a soft heart,' he told me after she tried to take the blame for knocking a radio off the dresser," Obama quoted Soetoro in his memoir. " 'That's good in a woman, but you will be a man someday, and a man needs to have more sense.' " Men, Soetoro explained, take advantage of weakness in other men. " 'They're like countries that way.' "

All of this, as Obama later interpreted it, related to the exercise of power, hidden and real. It was power that forced Soetoro to return to Indonesia in the first place. He had been summoned back to his country from Hawaii in 1966 and sent to work in New Guinea for a year because the ruling regime, after a widespread, bloody purge of communists and leftists, was leery of students who had gone abroad and wanted them back and under control. To his mother, power was ugly, Obama determined: "It fixed in her mind like a curse." But to his stepfather, power was reality -- and he "made his peace" with it.

Which response to the world had a deeper effect on the person Barry Obama would become? Without doubt it was his mother's. Soetoro, described later by his daughter Maya as a sweet and quiet man, resigned himself to his situation and did not grow or change. He became a nondescript oilman, befriending slick operators from Texas and Louisiana who probably regarded him with racial condescension. He went to their parties and played golf at the country club and became western and anonymous, slipping as far away as possible from the dangers of the purge and the freedom of his student days.

Ann certainly had more options, but the one she eventually chose was unusual. She decided to deepen her connection to this alien land and to confront power in her own way, by devoting herself to understanding the people at the core of Indonesian culture, artisans and craftsmen, and working to help them survive.

Here was an early paradox that helped shape Obama's life, one he would confront again and again as he matured and remade himself: A certain strain of realism can lead to inaction. A certain form of naivete can lead to action.

By the time Maya was born in 1970, Ann's second marriage was coming apart. This time, there was no sudden and jarring disappearance. The relationship lingered off and on for another 10 years, and Lolo remained part of Maya's life in a way that Barack Obama did not for Barry.

As Maya analyzed her parents' relationship decades later, she concluded that she came along just as her mother was starting to find herself. "She started feeling competent, perhaps. She acquired numerous languages after that. Not just Indonesian, but her professional language and her feminist language. And I think she really got a voice. So it's perfectly natural that she started to demand more of those who were near her, including my father. And suddenly his sweetness wasn't enough to satisfy her needs." (Source: Washington Post: David Maraniss.)

The "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" blog reports that Obama's Indonesian schooling. "Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name "Barry Soetoro" serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. School documents listed Barry Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 4 August 1961. Barry's religion was listed as Islam. School documents further record Barry's father as "L Soetoro Ma" who worked as an official of the Director General's office in the TNI Topography division of the Indonesian Army. Barry attended the Franciscan Asisi Primary School for three years until class 3 afterwards his family moved house from H Ramir Street to Dempo Street where he attended Besuki Primary School for one year before departing to Hawaii."

Catholic schools accept non-Catholics worldwide. Non-Catholic students are typically excused from religious instruction and ceremony.

IMPORTANT Any references to Obama being in Indonesia in 1971 are highly suspect. The reason is that Obama Jr. went to Hawaii in the fall of 1970 for interviews with the Punahou officials. He then entered school there without returning to Indonesia after being accepted. We also theorize that Obama was using the name "Barry Soetoro" to obtain foreign student tuition assistance at Punahou where he has admitted that he attended on a "scholarship." Obama did not return because those under the age of 13 do not need an interview to obtain an F-2 student visa -- and since Punahou was a private school, the visa was indefinite until Obama completed his schooling. The bottomline is that we believe that Obama was in Hawaii starting from Autumn 1970 onward and any references to his childhood in schools in Indonesia in 1971 are highly suspect. There also is NO EVIDENCE OF HIS ATTENDANCE AT BESUKI SCHOOL DURING THIS PERIOD as the rats supposedly "ate" all the documents.

Barack Obama, the first black person who is currently considering a run for the United States presidential race in 2008, was remembered by the teachers and his friends at the Menteng Primary School, Jakarta, as the student who was left-handed and smart.

On a clear Friday morning, we were were welcomed by children's laughter at SDN 1 Menteng, Jakarta. The children aged from six years old were all wearing Muslim clothes. The boys were wearing the hat and baju koko and the girls were wearing a veil. Right? That the Islam school? No, that is the status of the all schools in the country since 1970. Each Friday, all the school childen must wear Muslim clothes and that also includes children who are non-muslim.

Not long afterwards, a child named Timothy spoke up. "I want to be like Obama (Barack Obama) ,” he said while laughing together with the other children. Apparently, all of them have now come to know that the U.S. presidential candidate for 2008 had once gone to this school in SDN 1 Menteng. Timothy delivered us to see Deputy Principal Akhmad Solikhin who was in his office. Akhmad was being visited by the United States Embassy staff. After having to wait for several hours, the party from the United States embassy left.

Akhmad said that since the news that Barack Obama had previously gone to this school in Jakarta, the world public seemed to be focused on this school that was previously named Carpentier Alting Stichting Nassau School. Including the U.S. Embassy took part in attention. It is said, they want to give a big contribution to increase in the quality of the education in the school, the quality of the students, the teachers, as well as school facilities.

"For a long time we did not have any element of politics, we are always open" he said. Up until now this Primary School has established the same work as the Seameo Center-Bangkok, in fact the Homestay program in Australia ends February of this year. "We often sent the students and the teachers to Bangkok for the study" claims Akhmad. [snip]

But, we managed to succeed in investigating his teacher who had held the office of the principal named Tine Hahiyary (1971-1989). "At that time, I was not Barry's teacher but he is still in my memory" claimed Tine, who is currently 80 years old. The teacher who taught him was named Hendri but he has died. [snip]

Concerning the religion of the U.S. senator, Akhmad Solikhin, the representative of the SDN head 1 Menteng, was not sure if Barry's religion was Islam. "He (Barry) indeed was registered as Islam, but he claims to be Christian" he said surprised. But, according to Tine the teacher, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency. "I remembered that he had studied "menjaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Teni said. (Source: An American Expat in Southeast Asia.)

Obama at Indonesian school




School record from Franciscan Asisi Primary School. (NOTE: The Besuki Indonesian school where Obama attended for two years reports that "the bugs ate his records," while the Franciscan Asisi Primary School was able to show the media a well-preserved copy of his original registration record there.)

From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Jakarta. Age six, Obama attended the Catholic Primary St Francis di Assisi. Much was made of the lie he was educated in a Madrassa - or more accurately a pesantren - this of course was totally untrue. Obama Jnr later attended Model Primary School, Menteng and was registered as a Muslim - as his father was Muslim.

In Obama’s own words:

In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies. My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.

One of “Berry’s” childhood friends was Adi who often visited “Berry’s” 16 Jalan Haji Ramli house. Speaking volumes of Dutch “development” at the time the road was of this established middle-class neighbourhood was a dirt lane where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball.

Adi recalled Obama and his friends wore plastic bags over their shoes to walk through the muddy street during the rainy seasons.

Neighborhood Muslims worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger mosque. Sometimes, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift mosque together, Adi said. (SITE NOTE: This Adi later admitted to another reporter that he was only a casual acquaintance of Obama -- and his story of friendship was brought into question.)

His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the mosque,” Adi said. “I remember him wearing a sarong.”

Obama spent most his spare time hanging out with Adi and other friends at the home of Yunaldi Askiar, a classmate. They used to play a kind of fencing game using sticks, kick a ball up and down the narrow dirt lanes or go swimming in the river behind the school, said Askiar, 42, a car mechanic.

Obama was taller and better dressed than most kids in classes where shoes and socks were still luxuries, so he stood out from the start. As an African American, and the only foreigner, he suffered racial taunts and teasing but never turned to violence.

“At first, everybody felt it was weird to have him here,” Israella Dharmawan, his first grade teacher said. “But also they were curious about him, so wherever he went, the kids were following him.”

His friends enjoyed playing tricks on Berry: Harmon ASki recalled,

“Sometimes we’d say, ‘Barry, do you want a chocolate?’ And we’d give him a chocolate. The next day we’d give him a chocolate again. The third time we’d give him terasi (fermented shrimp paste) wrapped up like chocolate. Obama didn’t get mad. He would laugh it off.”

Ann Soetoro moved to Yogyakarta, while Obama Jnr studied in Jakarta. She was inspired by Jogja village industries, which became the basis of her 1992 doctoral dissertation. (SITE NOTE: The comment that she moved to Yogyakarta while Obama was in Jakarta is strange. Supposedly she moved there in 1977.)

“She loved living in Java,” said Dr. Dewey, who recalled accompanying Ms. Soetoro to a metalworking village. “People said: ‘Hi! How are you?’ She said: ‘How’s your wife? Did your daughter have the baby?’ They were friends. Then she’d whip out her notebook and she’d say: ‘How many of you have electricity? Are you having trouble getting iron?’ ”

Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.

In his tellingly-titled Memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his Indonesian interlude as “one long adventure, the bounty of a young boy’s life”. But he also recalls being troubled by the poverty around him: “the empty look on the faces of farmers the year the rains never came,” and the desperation of the disabled beggars who came to the family’s door.

“The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel,” he writes. Obama and his mother thus we were very well acquainted with the harsh realities of indigenous Indonesians.

Fermina Katarina Sinaga, recalled yojhng Obama in her class: in the common task of class to write an essay titled “My dream: What I want to be in the future.” Obama “wrote ‘I want to be a president,’ ” she said. During a later writing assignment on family, he wrote, “My father is my idol.

The Indonesian connection for Obama and all that shaped him proving once again all things Javanese and indigenous Indonesian the bedrock for the towering monuments built on the foundations of a great civilisation. (Source: Indonesian Matters.)

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All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school.

He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."

According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency. "I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.

Obama himself recalls, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."

Our guy in Jakarta writes: "The actual usage of the word 'mengaji' in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. "Mengagi" is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes."

"The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to come out of the closet."

"As I've stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such." (Source: Answers Yahoo.com.)

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What is particulary intriguing though for many is that Obama has not been seen to have been forthcoming with his past with regards to the time he spent in Indonesia. Either he wishes to forget his past or perhaps he has something to hide. In any event, I have now spent over twenty years of my life here in Southeast Asia, am well versed with the culture and speak the language. With regards to Obama's Indonesian past, I now find myself intrigued to find out more about Obama and his life in Indonesia.

The House on Dempo Street Vanishes

During this short period of time, Barack was believed to have lived in a house on Dempo Street near Amir Hamzah Park and the city center of Jakarta. However, currently the occupants of the house and the residents in this area have never heard of either Barack or Barry. Tracking down the past of U.S. senator in Indonesia is quite difficult, The only quite strong information detikcom was able to obtain was from a Onny Padmo, Barry's classmate in class 4 of Besuki primary school, Menteng, Jakarta near the city center around 1971. Onny admitted to attending Barry's birthday party at his house at that time. Barry's house was supposedly on Dempo Street near Amir Hamzah Park. But, Onny didn't quite seem to remember the exact address. As you know, that was over 35 years ago.

Detikcom investigated the area, on Monday (3/7/2006). However, several residents who have lived in this area for quite a long time had never heard of the Barack name or Barry. They had also never heard of the Lolo Soetoro name, Ann Dunham, or Maya Kassandra Soetoro. Lolo Soetoro was the husband of Ann and the stepfather of Barry. Ann was a U.S. citizen and the mother of Barry. Whereas Maya was the stepsister of Barry, the child of Ann and Lolo. In fact, Barry together with his mother and his stepfather lived in Indonesia for quite a long time. Apparently Barry went to Primary School here for only one year in Primary 4, but the information from Maya Soetoro is that Barry had lived in Indonesia between the years of 1968-1973.

However, the exact location of Barry's house for 5 years remains unclear. The only thing that is certain, according to Onny, is that "Barry" lived on Dempo Street. "I had previously attended Barry's birthday party in the house, not far from Amir Hamzah Park", said Onny, Barry's school friend during 1971. It wasn't far from Amir Hamzah Park, said Onny, Barry's school friend from 1971. At the time, Dempo Street was still be worked on. It was just off Amir Hamzah Park although not right in front. The road closer to the mosque at that time was quite famous.

One of the residents who had lived a long time in the Amir Hamzah Park area, Ari (aged 55), when being questioned by detikcom claimed to have never heard of a Barack, Obama or Barry. He had also never heard of a person named Lolo Soetoro. "As I remember in the 1960's many Dutch lived near this area." If there was a Negroid child, I would have known, said Ari. Apart from Dutch though, in this area there also lived many decendents of the Dutch Ambonese.

Haji Mamiati, who had lived in the area since the 1950's also admitted to not knowing of an Ann Dunham, Lolo Soetoro or Barry. He claimed that in the Amir Hamzah Park area, during the 1960's there were many foreigners.Mamiati claimed thought that he had indeed seen a black negro child who had curly hair that live in No. 2 Dempo Street sometime around the 1970's. However, he said the negroid child was claimed to have been from Papua. "Indeed there was a negroid child, but they claimed that the child was from Irian." said Mamiati. Could it be, that the negroid child mentioned by Mamiati was in fact "Barry"?

It is difficult to say, the house on No. 2 Dempo Street existed only during the time of the Dutch. Now the place where the house supposedly stood houses a dentist and there are many other new houses in the area - Dempo has changed over the years. (Source: An American Expat in Southeast Asia.)

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Besuki Primary School is a Public school in Jakarta, Indonesia, it is not a madrassa as reported by Insight Magazine in the subscriber-only article entitled "Hillary's Team has questions about Obama's Muslim background". The article begins by asking the following question:

"Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?"

The article then continues:

"This is the question Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp is asking about Senator Barack Obama."

Looking at the school, it is easy to see how someone could confuse it with a madrassa with it's domed roof and Islamic architecture, but SD Besuki is indeed a government primary school and not a madrassa.

That being said, a government primary school in Indonesia is not quite as secular as one in the west might imagine. In fact Islam plays a very important role in Indonesian schools and a foreigner might be surprised to find out that religious classes are compulsory for all Indonesian students.

All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young "Barry Soetoro" being a Muslim would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.

Obama Barack Hussein might not have attended an Indonesian madrassa, but evidence will show later that he has not been completely forthcoming on his Muslim heritage and upbringing. (Source: An American Expat in Southeast Asia.)

Secrets of Obama Family Unlocked

Muslim Observer, News Feature, Michael Sheridan, (Jakarta) and Sarah Baxter (Washington), Posted: Feb 05, 2007\

When Barack Obama, America's newest presidential hopeful, was hit by allegations that he had attended a radical Islamic madrasah school as a boy in Indonesia, the claims spread like a virus through the media and internet. It was a lie — the school was barely more religious than British church schools — but it was also a sign that Obama's chances of winning the presidency depend to an unusual degree on his life story and character.

The race is on to define the gifted but little-known senator for Illinois and The Sunday Times can reveal that his heritage is far more diverse and astonishing than anything American voters have heard so far.

Obama, 45, has two half- sisters, one living in Britain, and five surviving half-brothers, the eldest of whom converted to Islam, and whose stories span the globe.

Nobody was more surprised to hear that Obama had reportedly been educated in a madrasah than Julia Suryakusuma, a close friend of his mother until her death from ovarian cancer in 1995. Suryakusuma, 53, one of Indonesia's most outspoken feminist writers, has fearlessly taken on extremist Muslim clerics in print. Last week she described Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, "as a liberal and a humanist", who learnt to speak fluent Indonesian and adored the culture. "She was interested in religions but didn't follow one. She was a free-thinker," Suryakusuma said. "She was a pioneer and when she came to Indonesia she was ensnared and enchanted." (SITE NOTE: In another interview, a report stated that Suryakusuma stated that Obama could become the President of indonesia -- touching off a tiff that he was still an Indonesian citizen. In actuality, the reporters used the phrase out of context.)

On the coffee table in her cool modern house in Jakarta, full of the beautiful Indonesian fabrics and carvings which captivated her friend, lies an album of photographs which record the happy times. There is Dunham, pale-skinned, jolly and frizzy-haired, celebrating with her friends at an art gallery opening or a drinks party, wearing the baggy, free-flowing clothes often favoured by bohemian western women in Asia. She always seemed to be laughing. "You know Ann was really, really white," smiled Suryakusuma, looking through the album, "even though she told me she had some Cherokee blood in her. I think she just loved people of a different skin colour, brown people."

Dunham was from Wichita, Kansas, but her parents moved to Hawaii in search of a better life. According to Obama, a distant ancestor was a "full-blooded Cherokee." Dunham's first marriage was to a Kenyan student, also called Barack Obama, but he left the family to study at Harvard and returned to Africa. She went on to marry Lolo Soetoro, another foreign student, and moved to his native Indonesia with six-year-old Barack in 1967, after the new dictator Suharto summoned the country's citizens home.

Soetoro became a government relations consultant with a big U.S. oil company. "He changed when he came back to Indonesia," Suryakusuma recalled. "Men can be a certain way when they are in the West and when they come back they are sucked into their own culture." In his memoir,Dreams From My Father, first published in 1995, Obama does not conceal the estrangement between his mother and stepfather as Soetoro made compromises with Indonesia's power elite. They divorced and he died decades later of a liver complaint.

At 10, Obama returned to Hawaii, where he lived with his grandparents and attended an elite private school. His mother went back to Indonesia with Obama's half-sister Maya, now a professor at the University of Hawaii, and became an expert on the "feminine crafts", such as weaving and basket-making, practised by the women of Java.

Suryakusuma recalled that Dunham called her son "Berry" — Barry with an Indonesian lilt. "We were both mothers and we talked about how difficult it was for a mother to separate herself and send her child away, but she was really concerned about Barry's education." She first met Obama when he came to visit his mother as a young adult. "She was so proud of him. I remember she was glowing with pride when he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. "You know, having a white mother and a black father and coming to Indonesia," Suryakusuma reflected, "I could see he had the same kind of empathy with people that his mother had." Obama's multi-hued heritage has put a distance between him and the African-American community, which has been reluctant to claim him as a "brother".

America's white community, in contrast, has embraced Obama as a hopeful affirmation that the fabled melting pot can transcend race. With his middle name Hussein (like Saddam) and surname Obama (like Osama), he is a rare and exotic figure in American politics. "I believe the American electorate is ready to support leaders who embody the American dream despite their differences. In doing so, we affirm ourselves as a tolerant people," said William Galston, a senior fellow in public policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Yet there are details in Obama's life that have yet to be subjected to full scrutiny. It may not be the information itself that matters, according to Galston, but "how Obama talks about the facts as they emerge and handles questions and controversies." The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet was the first to spot in 2004, when Obama burst on the national stage at the Democratic party convention, that his memoir, Dreams From My Father, contained "composite" characters and changed names. "Except for public figures and his family, it is impossible to know who is real and who is not," she pointed out.

Obama admitted as much in his introduction, saying he had altered characters "for the sake of their privacy." As with the revelation that he took cocaine in his youth, he appears to have been candid about potential areas of controversy. Obama's African family is particularly complicated. By his own account, his father never really left Kezia, his first wife, in Kenya. She bore Obama Sr two children, Roy and Auma, who now works in social services in Berkshire. They were separated, Obama's mother claimed, but "it was a village wedding and there was no document that could suggest a divorce".

His own father and mother's wedding in Hawaii may not have been properly documented either. "How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore," Obama writes in his memoir. After his father left Ann and two-year-old Barack to study at Harvard, he went to Africa with another American woman, Ruth, who became his third wife. She bore him two sons in Kenya, one of whom died in a motorcycle accident, but Obama Sr continued to see Kezia. "Traditionally, she was still his wife," a relative explained. Kezia went on to bear two more sons, Abo and Bernard. Although their paternity is disputed by some relatives, Obama Sr regarded them as his own. Later in life, he fathered another son, George, by a young Kenyan woman. After his parents split up, Obama saw his father only once before learning that he had died in a car crash in Kenya in 1982.

Obama's eldest brother Roy moved to America and went on to convert to Islam. Obama, in contrast, became a committed Christian while he was working as a community activist in Chicago. Last week he denounced the reports that he was educated in a madrasah as a "ludicrous" smear.

Larry Sabato, professor of political science at the University of Virginia, believes Obama's richly textured African and Indonesian background will attract voters, no matter how controversial it is. "America loves a success story — the new generation that rises from the sins and misfortunes of the older generation," Sabato said. In Indonesia, Suryakusuma said she could still feel the "warm" presence of Obama's mother Ann. "She would be so proud if she knew about Barry, so proud to think that her little boy would be running for president of the United States." (Source: Obama WTF.)

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Obama's first questions about his own identity came early, when he lived for several years in Indonesia. He moved there with his idealistic mother—whom he has described as a "lonely witness for secular humanism"—when he was 6. The Asian archipelago was an eye-opener for a child who had been raised in the relative comforts of Hawaii. He didn't know what to make of the leper who came to his door, who had a hole where his nose was supposed to be and made a discomfiting "whistling sound" as he asked for food. He had to learn how to deal with street beggars of all types. Obama's bighearted mother gave easily. His Indonesian stepfather, an unsentimental man with a more practical view of the world, counseled the boy that the demands of the needy had no end; it was best to be strong because "men take advantage of weakness in other men."

The young Obama grappled, to the extent a child can, with the guilt of the privileged. But for the first time, he also confronted the potential burden of being dark-skinned. This occurred, according to his autobiography, at the library of the U.S. Embassy, where his mother was teaching English to local businessmen. Barry was there leafing through magazines when he came across disturbing photos of a black man who had tried to erase the darkness from his skin by using chemicals. The man had a ghostly pallor, as if he had suffered from radiation poisoning. After "a stretch of childhood free from self-doubt," seeing the photos was "violent for me," Obama later wrote. He had been warned before about bigots and wasn't completely ignorant about the evils of the world. "But that one photograph had told me something else: that there was a hidden enemy out there, one that could reach me without anyone's knowledge, not even my own."

The boy's mother tried her best to armor him against self-doubt. "To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear," she told him. She also taught him "to disdain the blend of ignorance and arrogance that too often characterized Americans abroad," and made sure he was respectful of Indonesians and their culture. "My mother always distinguished between certain aspects of Americans abroad that she was embarrassed by: the expats who would never eat in a local restaurant or never socialize with Indonesians or had a patronizing attitude," Obama recalled to NEWSWEEK. "She was always concerned about me never thinking I was superior to Indonesians in that way."

He ate lots of the local street food: chicken satay, traditional fried rice and meatballs the size of tennis balls. He saw shadow-puppet shows and listened to Indonesian music. His backyard was home to baby crocodiles, birds of paradise and a cockatoo. "It wasn't all grim," says Obama's half sister, Maya. Jakarta was like a vast, sprawling village at the time, lit by kerosene lamps—a young boy's paradise.

But Obama's mother didn't want Barry to be denied the many opportunities that American kids had. So she tutored him at 4 a.m., before he went to his Indonesian school, administering three-hour English lessons. (SITE NOTE: Ann Dunham also taught a part-time English class for businessmen at the U.S. Embassy, though when is not known.) Obama got a glancing exposure to Islam. He went to a public school where he had a bit of Islamic instruction, perhaps once a week. But Indonesia wore its religion lightly. "Nobody wore headscarves on the streets," he says. "I mean, women were driving on Vespas, and when you went to the villages they were all taking baths in the river." His mother taught him what she thought of as "Midwestern, traditional American values"—honesty, fairness, plain speaking. "She believed in saying what you mean and meaning what you say, even if it made a situation uncomfortable," he recalls. "To her that was part of her American tradition that she was proud of, and she wanted to make sure that was part of me."

Yet the poverty and corruption of Indonesia would come to instill "a relentless skepticism" in the child, he later wrote. Obama's mother eventually stifled her idealism, and sent her son back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. (Source: Newsweek.)

(SITE NOTE: Ann Dunham did NOT want Obama to have an interview as it would immediately expose him as a U.S. CITIZEN and not eligible for an F-1 visa. Why was the F-1 visa important? Remember that Obama attended Punahou on a "scholarship." What type is not known, but it is fairly certain that he would not have qualified for a scholastic grant as he had no record of scholarship in America as he left in 1967 after kindergarten at Noelani School. Thus the only other type would be a "tuition assistance" scholarship. The only trouble is that Madelyn Dunham was promoted to VP at the Bank of Hawaii in 1970 and with the combined income of Stanley Dunham they were in the upper-middle class in Hawaii. The only way they could get this would be to apply as a foreign student using Lolo Soetoro and Ann Dunham's salary as the base -- meaning they would require assistance. This was a planned move to enter Obama Jr. (Barry Soetoro) into Punahou -- a private school. An F-1 visa to a private school would ensure that it was a ONE-TIME process as once issued, the visa is good until one completes ones education. If Obama attended a public school, the F-1 visa would be only good for 12 months -- and there had to be paperwork that remuneration for public funds was taken care of.)

To defuse these charges, the Obama camp has been shifting course. The New York Times reported Monday that the Obama camp recognized it "needed to do a better job reminding voters of his biography, including his modest upbringing by a single mother." Despite Inouye’s comments, Obama’s childhood and his years at Punahou are aspects of Obama’s biography that his campaign might do well to bring up. Obama’s experience at Punahou, a bastion for the children of Hawaii’s ruling class, was that of an outsider. Because his family’s income was modest, Obama attended the school on a scholarship, and never fully assimilated into the wealthy and exclusive society of his classmates. Furthermore, Obama was ostracized because of his race — the vast majority at the school was white. (SITE NOTE: This is not true. The concensus of friends and teachers was that he did mix well socially. He was NOT ostracized. Also the income of his grandmother and grandfather combined placed him in the upper middle class income.)

KGMB9'S STACY LOE: "As you know Sen. Daniel Inouye, who is backing Hillary Clinton, said in an interview quote 'he went to school in Hawaii. But he went to Punahou and that was not a school for the impoverished....' Now he suggests that going to an elite private school means that you are somehow a disconnect from the average Hawaii resident and American. What do you say about that?"

OBAMA: "Well you know I think that Daniel Inouye knows better than that. I went to Punahou on scholarship. I grew up in my grandmother's apartment because I was raised by a single mom. We were on food stamps for a time while I was in Hawaii and grew up in a two bedroom apartment. My grandmother still lives there… and so you know I struggled just like a lot of kids struggle. I had love and I had an education, but I didn’t have a lot of money. And I wasn't living in wealthy neighborhoods in Honolulu. So I think Danny I understand is poorer than Sen. Clinton. But he knows better than that and he should focus on how we can come together to solve the problems of Hawaii and throughout the country." (Source: KGMB9.)

In 1971, when Obama was 10, Ann sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents and attend Punahou,an élite prep school that he'd gotten into on a scholarship with his grandparents' help. This wrenching decision seemed to reflect how much she valued education. A year later, Ann followed Obama back to Hawaii, as promised, taking her daughter but leaving her husband behind. She enrolled in a master's program at the University of Hawaii to study the anthropology of Indonesia. (Source: Time Magazine.)

SITE NOTE: Obama supposedly got into Punahou through the connections of Stanley Dunham's boss who was an alumnus of Punahou. Nowhere can we find the name of this boss, nor what company where Stanley Dunham worked.

In addition, the scholarship is very strange. A scholarship from Punahou would be usually reserved for (1) those with financial need, but academic excellence. (Obama was an average B student with a grandmother who could afford the cost.) or (2) a foreign student as these students gave the school an international flavor and was good for community relations/public relations. We believe the plan to enter Obama (Barry Soetoro) into Punahou was a well-conceived plan. Obama probably obtained the Indonesian passport in 1970 planning to obtain an F-1 visa. We believe Punahou School arranged for a "scholarship" (tuition assistance for a foreign student) that was a direct grant that reduced the amount of the Punahou tuition. The argument for "tuition assistance" would be based on Lolo Soetoro and Ann Dunham-Soetoro's income that could not afford Punahou's expensive tuition. We believe that Punahou signed a Form I-20A-B to signify that Obama (Barry Soetoro) had been accepted into Punahou. With this paperwork, Obama (Barry Soetoro) was able to obtain an F-1 visa in Indonesia from the U.S. Embassy. Nothing can be checked as records are sealed. (SEE Indonesian Passport Issues for details of our argument.)


Obama name in cement outside of Punahou cafeteria (NOTE: Date etched in concrete unknown. Name "King" unknown -- maybe student or "Martin Luther King" for all one knows as Obama struggles to find his identity.)

When Obama returned to Hawaii in 1970, his grandparents took him to the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu where he attended Sunday School for several years. Obama hid his Unitarian connections during the campaign. In a 2006 speech, Obama explained: "I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably one of the most spiritual people and kindest people I've ever known, but grew up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a consequence, so did I." He conveniently forgot about the Unitarian Church Sunday School because its anti-Vietnam War support when he attended would have been embarassing to his campaign.
First Unitarian Church, Honolulu (Jun 2009) (WND)

Obama's Other Controversial Church

By Andrew Walden

"This is a guy (former Weatherman terror-bomber Bill Ayers) who lives in my neighborhood ... the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago - when I was 8 years old - somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense." -- Barack Obama on the Campaign trail, 2008

As President Obama prepared to commemorate D-Day, the Associated Press dug up old details and photos to write a warm fuzzy story about the WW2 service record of Obama's maternal grandfather and grand uncle. One could conclude that the actions of these two-nearly 20 years before Obama was born--are the closest Obama ever came to uniformed U.S. military personnel prior to launching his political career.

But Obama has a much closer military connection-one he has not talked about publicly. Had a reporter asked Obama: "So what were you doing during Bill Ayers' fugitive days?" An honest answer would be: "I was going to Sunday school at a church which had provided sanctuary to U.S. military deserters."

While John McCain was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, First Unitarian Church of Honolulu -- at which the elementary-age Obama would later attend Sunday school after returning from Indonesia in 1970 or 71 -- was sheltering deserters and AWOLs recruited by ‘flirty fishing' coeds from a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) group known as "The Resistance". The deserters' exploits were front page news for months on end in mid-1969 Honolulu. They were also proudly trumpeted by the Honolulu SDS tabloid, "The Roach". (SITE NOTE: Isn't it an interesting coincidence that Obama's "acquaintance" Bill Ayers was also associated with the SDS off-shoot, the "Weatherman Underground.)

The contrast between the war hero POW and the Obama deserters' church would have made a pretty good campaign commercial. But nobody in Honolulu spoke up to claim Obama's First Unitarian connection until after Election Day. Even then it was hush-hush. As the Star-Bulletin explained December 24:

"(Rev Mike) Young, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, could only tell his wife and a handful of church administrators that a small, private service was planned for Madelyn Payne Dunham on Dec. 23. It was very hard to keep this secret. ..."

Obama's maternal grandmother had passed away just days before the election. The story of his ties to the church began to emerge only after he attended her memorial service. They have never received wide media attention, but have been published just enough that-after being kept secret in the 2008 campaign -- this chapter of Obama's life can arguably no longer be considered a secret to be revealed in any 2012 campaign. The connection to Vietnam deserters has not been included in any of the Obama-related coverage.

Was sheltering deserters an aberration for First Unitarian Church? No. Long before anybody was thinking of Barack Obama as a Senator, much less a President, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin February 8, 2003 described First Unitarian's 2003 golden anniversary celebration complete with "Liberal Religion for 50 Years" T-shirts:

"The bumper stickers on cars outside the church gave an insight into its members' beliefs: ‘No War.' ‘If you want peace, work for justice.' ‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'

"Activism for peace and human rights causes has characterized the congregation of the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu since it was organized 50 years ago. Members were instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters and activating a local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. It offered sanctuary to servicemen who went AWOL to avoid being sent to Vietnam. It helped launch the Save Our Constitution effort to fight the constitutional amendment on same-sex marriages....

"After leaving Hawaii to work at the Unitarian seminary in Berkeley, Calif., (Church co-founder Rosemary) Mattson and her husband were active in the international peace movement. She escorted more than 25 tours of Americans to the former Soviet Union for people-to-people experience...."

But six years later the coverage of the memorial service did not bring out any of this information. At first there was no revelation that Obama had any relationship to the church beyond simply holding the service there. Then a January 6, 2009 article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin brings out the hidden story of Obama's religious upbringing:

"When (UU Rev Mike) Young reminded Obama that he had attended Sunday School at First Unitarian, ‘his eyes lit up, and he said, ‘Oh that's right!'"

In response to an email query from Hawaii Free Press Rev. Young confirmed the Star-Bulletin's account. Young also repeated the story in the March 28, 2009 edition of his hometown Tampa (Florida) Tribune:

When Obama was in elementary school in Honolulu, Young recounted in a telephone phone interview, either his grandmother or grandfather (there's confusion over which one) brought him to Sunday school there for several years.

The Dunhams had attended a Unitarian church in the Seattle area when Obama's mother was a teenager. Although there's no record of their attendance at the Honolulu church, Obama writes about it in his memoir "Dreams From My Father," and one family who still attends the church remembers him.

When Young reminded Obama at the memorial service, "his eyes lit up, and he turned to Michelle and said, 'Hey, that's right. This is where I went to Sunday school.'"

Obama spent some time on the second floor, where Sunday school is held, but didn't recognize anything. That's not surprising, Young said, because the church has been renovated over the years.

The Dunhams' Seattle-area Mercer Island Unitarian Church was infamous as "The Little Red Church on the Hill"-Obama's mother's attendance there had been exposed during the campaign-and had been associated with an ambiguous reference to Obama's grandfather Stanley Dunham in Obama's book "Dreams from My Father" (p17).

"In his only skirmish into organized religion, he would enroll the family in the local Unitarian Universalist congregation...."

But knowing Obama's connection to Honolulu's First Unitarian Church, it is possible this passage refers to either church -- or both churches. Contemporary accounts of the SDS Resistance use of First Unitarian and nearby Church of the Crossroads as part of the 1968-70 sanctuary for deserters movement shows why Obama would not have wanted this information exposed.

Starting in 1966 University of Hawaii students and professors began raising funds to donate directly to the Viet Cong. By 1968 UH Manoa leftist activists had morphed into a chapter of the so-called Students for a Democratic Society and began publishing a newspaper called "The Roach."

On October 26, 1967 Lt. Commander John McCain was shot down over Hanoi. With two broken arms and one broken leg he parachuted into Truc Bach Lake where he was dragged from the water, beaten and bayoneted.

The June 4, 1968 edition of The Roach includes "memo from the resistance"-The Hawaii Committee for Draft Resistance-which urges supporters to show up at a June 10 court hearing for "the ten arrested for loitering when they attempted to block the 29th Infantry Brigade troops leaving Fort DeRussy...." On the very next page Mao Zedong's murderous Red Guards are described as, "...young activists full of joy who understand the potential for their society...."

In mid-1968, the Vietnamese communists realized they held the son of Admiral John McCain-commander of the Pacific Fleet, including U.S. forces in Vietnam. The younger McCain refused an offer of early release because preferential treatment for the son of a high ranking officer would provide a propaganda opportunity for the communists. He would be held five more years.

The September 24, 1968 edition of The Roach describes Resistance leader John Witeck refusing induction right next to articles titled "Pot Talk" and "Revolutionary Orgasm." An obscure article in the October 23 edition mentions "two marines (sic), Young C Gray and Tom Mat, who are now in sanctuary...." This ‘sanctuary' apparently lasted four days.

The Roach, January 15, 1969, describes Gray receiving two years in the stockade after being found guilty of "‘attempting to possess' mescaline and marijuana." The Roach further explains: "Gray had also written some disparaging remarks about NCOs and lifers concerning their intellects and temperaments. These statements appeared in ‘A Call to Join Us', a piece read to the congregation assembled at the Unitarian Church." After losing 50 pounds while receiving insufficient treatment for his injuries, John McCain was placed in a cell in December 1967 with two Americans who did not expect him to live a week. He was then locked in solitary confinement for two years beginning in March 1968. Here he endured beatings and rope binding tortures but refused to meet with anti-war delegations attempting to visit the POWs.

The August 16, 1969 Star-Bulletin shows deserters going shirtless with some of the dozens of hippy girls who had flocked to the sanctuary churches. The headline: "Hot showers for AWOLs at Church."

By August 23, 1969 the New York Times was reporting "24 G.I. War Foes now in Sanctuary...staying at both the Church of the Crossroads and the Unitarian Church of Honolulu...." The Resistance had grown but all was not well. As The Times explained:

"One of the protesters, Seaman Arthur parker, 17, turned himself in to the authorities at Pearl Harbor yesterday after talking to an Army Chaplain. "Seaman Parker denounced the protest as ‘a movement to overthrow the government.'"

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin August 22, 1969 had much more of Parker's story.

(Parker) arrived in Honolulu from a Great lakes, (Ill.) boot camp and ... got drunk with buddies at Waikiki last Thursday night. He told of meeting a young girl the next morning who promised love and relief from the military. Parker disliked violence and war.... "We were walking down the street. Man was I bombed, and these two girls came up and handed me a sheet of paper. It told about the servicemen at the church and what the Resistance stood for.

"I told the girls that I didn't like to hate and I didn't like the war but that all I neeed was love. One of the girls said, ‘Well there's a lot of that at the church.' Then we just talked.

"I went back to the hotel, drank three beers and a half pint of whiskey and then called the Rev Bob Warner to come pick me up.... ...On that day the young man from Holland, Mich., became number 18 at the Church of the Crossroads....

"... It isn't a sanctuary anymore. Its become a movement to overthrow the government and I don't stand for that; neither do a lot of the others.... "Even though I don't like the military, I would rather be part of them than what's down at the church. They scare me now."

Four days later the following Letter to the Editor appeared in the Star-Bulletin:

SIR: Whereas the Congregation of the Unitarian Church of Honolulu acted on October 18, 1968, to adopt a policy of offering symbolic sanctuary to those who in conscience oppose the machinery of war by nonviolent means, the Board of the Church, at its regular August meeting, offers its commendation on behalf of the Unitarian Church of Honolulu to the Church of the Crossroads for its courageous support of the men now in sanctuary.

--Martha D. McDaniel, Secretary of the Board, Unitarian Church of Honolulu

On September 12, 1969 the Star-Bulletin reported a broadly sponsored U.S. House resolution, "condemning ‘cruel and barbaric' treatment of American prisoners of war in Vietnam....

"The resolution cites reports that the POWs are subjected to ‘physical torture, psychological terror, public display, neglect of health and are denied dietary and sanitary necessities. They are unable to correspond with their families and are forced to comply with propaganda exploitation."

Just two days earlier the Star-Bulletin had interviewed Rev Donald Adams, a former associate minister of the Church of the Crossroads. Regarding the military personnel in ‘sanctuary' Adams explained:

"I think the majority of them are probably in need of counseling and psychiatric help. After the wraps are off, you find the real internal problems. Psychologically, some men are not for the military. Its not easy in there."

Interviewed for the same article, Church of the Crossroads member Rev. Ted Chinen explained:

"The men come for various reasons. We should look into their previous records. We may be assisting psychopathics or neurotics."

To be considered a deserter, a soldier must be AWOL for 30 days. Eventually the City of Honolulu cited both churches for violations of zoning and health ordinances related to the use of the church buildings for ‘sanctuary'. Then on September 12 military police raided the Unitarian Church, Church of the Crossroads and nearby Wellesley Foundation arresting 12 AWOLs. As many as 15 others evaded arrest. The Star-Bulletin September 19, 1969 editorialized:

"It seems inconsistent that these men who were so willing to face television cameras and speak up before the nation on conscience-so long as they had the protection of the ‘sanctuary'-could not see their adventure through. "That gives us reason to believe that these young men are not made of the fiber they would have had us believe. "Their evasion of the consequences, which they admittedly knew would eventually come, casts a shadow over the sincerity of their convictions. "We can be thankful that they decided to take their stand in the safe confines of a church. "Had they gone to the jungles of Vietnam, it is entirely possible that their lack of intestinal fortitude could have got someone else killed."

While the deserters were hiding, the September 15, 1969 Star-Bulletin reports on another group of missing soldiers. A delegation of four women-wives of American MIAs believed to be POWs-went to the Paris Peace Talks. In a statement released to the press they wrote:

"Our husbands have been missing from eight months to four years and we are hopeful North Vietnamese representatives will tell us if we are wives or widows."

The November, 1969 edition of the Hawaii Free People's Press -- successor to The Roach -- recounts the story of a Schofield Barracks deserter who had a different type of relationship with women. The article titled "Fock the draft" begins with the testimony of underground Schofield Barracks stockade escapee Bobby Jay Norton:

"Some five or six months ago I was charged with rape which I did not commit. The girl that charged me with the intentions of rape was pregnant when she came to Hawaii, so instead of her letting her parents know of this, she thought that she could come here and charge rape on someone.... "While we were driving in Waikiki she started screaming louder and louder, so I told her that if she didn't be quiet that I was going to slap the s**t out of her.

"As we came to a stop sign she jumped out of the car and started running down the street crying. I started to go after her but I decided that I had had enough of her crying so I decided to let her go.

"The next day I was informed by some friends that I was being looked for by the H.P.D. and some M.P.s....I had previously gotten out of an assault on a chick."

Above this was an untitled piece by "Private Partz" and a cartoon of a naked general swallowing people whole and defecating them out as soldiers. These activists eventually won their war against America in Southeast Asia. They and those who admired them are now our professors, our journalists, our ministers, moviemakers, and politicians. One of their understudies is President of the United States.

In 1973 and 1974 Nixon withdrew U.S. troops from South East Asia. When the U.S. war ended the real killing began. The Democrat-controlled Congress cut off U.S. funding to the South Vietnamese and Cambodian governments. By April of 1975 Pol Pot took over Cambodia and began murdering as many as 3 million Cambodians. The Vietnamese communists murdered as many as 1.6 million people and forced millions more into exile as "boat people."

Those deaths and the domestic political means which made them possible are the most accurate reflection on the generation of activists who raised Barack Obama and created his values.

Andrew Walden edits hawaiifreepress.com.

Obama tied to Ayers ... at age 11

Anti-military congregation attended as boy in Hawaii linked to radical's organization

The Hawaii church where President Obama attended Sunday school as a boy has "always" been involved in political activism, the church's pastor told WND in an interview.

"The Sunday school has always been and to this day still is involved in political activism," said Rev. Mike Young, pastor of First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. "We are involved in community organizing, helping churches in foreign countries, social justice issues, like making sure inmates get dinner," said Young, speaking from Hawaii.

While Obama's membership as an adult in the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ has received widespread media attention, almost nothing has been reported about his Sunday school attendance at First Unitarian, a far-left activist church that may have helped provide the president's initial political education. First Unitarian, a member of the Unitarian Universalist denomination, served as a sanctuary for draft dodgers and was strongly tied to the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, during the time Weatherman radical Bill Ayers was a leader in that organization. The Weathermen was an offshoot of the SDS. Andrew Walden, publisher and editor of the Hawaii Free Press, dug up newspaper clippings from that period as well as print editions of "The Roach," an SDS publication describing the group's draft-dodging activism, including at the Unitarian church.

The SDS connection to Obama's boyhood church is instrumental. During last year's presidential campaign, Obama notoriously brushed off Ayers' extremism as irrelevant since most of the Weathermen radical's violent actions were carried out when Obama was a kid.

"This is a guy (Ayers) who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago – when I was 8 years old – somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense," Obama said in 2008.

Obama, however, likely learned values during his Sunday school days at the First Unitarian in the early 1970s. (SITE NOTE: This is a large leap in making an assumption. Most Sunday School classes for ten-year olds is cutting out pictures of religious figures and learning biblical stories -- not anti-war philosophy.)

After living from age 7 with his mother and step-father in Indonesia, where he was enrolled as a Muslim in public schools, Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 11 in 1971 to reside with his grandmother. His mother moved back to Hawaii in 1972 and stayed there until 1977, when she relocated again to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

In his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama recounts on page 17 moving to Hawaii and being enrolled in the Unitarian church. When Obama's maternal grandmother died last November, the memorial service, attended by the then-presidential candidate, was held in Honolulu's Unitarian church.

According to an account in the Tampa Tribune, when Young reminded Obama at his grandmother's memorial service that he attended the church's Sunday school as a kid, Obama's eyes lit up, and he turned to his wife, Michelle, and said, "'Hey, that's right. This is where I went to Sunday school."

Young recounted to WND yesterday how the bathrooms for the main sanctuary were in full use after the service. Obama said he had to use the restroom, so Young directed Obama and his secret service detail to instead utilize the upper floor facilities, located at the church's Sunday school operations.

"When he returned," Young recalled, "I asked Obama if the Sunday school looked familiar. He said it didn't, but I explained to him we recently remodeled."

Notorious hotbed of far-leftist activism

Young came to the Honolulu church in 1995. He claimed to WND the church and Sunday school is non-partisan. However, just as it is now, during Obama's attendance in the early 1970s, the church was a hotbed of far-leftist activism.

The church notoriously granted sanctuary to U.S. military deserters recruited by the SDS. The deserters' exploits at the church were front page news for months in 1969, including articles in the New York Times.

Eventually, the police raided the church as well as another nearby Honolulu worship house, (Church of the) Crossroads, that was also providing sanctuary to draft dodgers.

Aside from its early connections to the SDS, Young confirmed to WND his church was instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters and activating a local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The church is still active is liberal politics. It reportedly helped to launch the Save Our Constitution effort to fight the constitutional amendment on same-sex marriages. In 2003, the church sponsored a Death with Dignity poll that collected a 72 percent response in favor of end-of-life legislation.

In February 2003, the Unitarian church celebrated its 50th anniversary at a ceremony replete with "Liberal Religion for 50 Years" T-shirts.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported bumper stickers on cars outside the church gave insight into its members' beliefs: "No War." "If you want peace, work for justice." "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." (Source: < a href=http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101566>World Net Daily.)

IMPORTANT (SITE NOTE: A paper trail exists if Obama (Barry Soetoro) opened a bank account to deposit his payments for tuition assistance. In addition, as far as we know, no search for the (1) Social Security Number of Barry Soetoro, (2) possible bank accounts during the period he was at the schools; and (3) possible California/New York/Massachusetts driver's licenses or State IDs. As far as we know, no one has conducted any investigative reporting in this area.)

A, Indonesian passport (Passport) is the property of the Indonesian State and issued by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia for Indonesian citizens traveling and/or living temporarily or permanently overseas.

There are 2 types of Indonesian passport: individual passport and family passport.

Passport is valid entirely for 5 (five) years, then a renewal should be requested. Extension of validity only will be provided for the passport that is valid only for two or three years. The issuance of passport with validity for 3 years and then 2 more years extension was decided in view of the Article 17k of the Indonesian Citizenship Acts no. 62/ 1958 (vide the Lost of Nationality and page 48 of the passport).

To accommodate the request of Indonesian citizens within Midwest area who are unable to come to the Consulate for passport renewals, registering the presence in advance to the Consulate is advised. (vide : Registration of Presence).

An application will be processed by the Consulate if requirements thereof and interview ( if required) have been met.

The applicant is required to come to the Consulate for a passport renewal if the passport loses or passport is 1 year-overdue, having no clear identity as Indonesian citizen and unregistered in the Consulate. The application will not be processed if the applicant has no proofs to be submitted to the Consulate about his/her identity as Indonesian citizen. (Source: Indonesian Consulate: Chicago.)

Indonesian Passport

All Obama had to do to ensure his passport was current was declare his location to the Indonesian consulate whenever he moved locations (i.e., from Hawaii to Los Angeles to New York to Chicago and to Cambridge). Every five years Obama (Barry Soetoro) would renew his passport at the nearest Indonesian consulate/embassy. As Obama already had a F-1 student visa, he would extend it every time he changed schools and have it entered into his new Indonesian passport.

B. Renewal/Replacement or Extension of Passport Ordinary Passport

a. Renewal of Passport

• resident in Midwest area (SITE NOTE: Requirement because this is Chicago consulate.)
• current passport
• 6 pieces photographs with red background size 2x2 inches
• original or certified copy of ID Card (Green Card) or copy of H1B, I-20; Those who have no identity proof in the U.S. must show the entry visa to the U.S. attached in the applicant passport

  (SITE NOTE: H1B does NOT apply to Obama (Barry Soetoro). The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration & Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H). It allows U.S. employers to employ foreign guest workers in specialty occupations.
  
  I-20 applies. Form I-20 is a United States Department of Homeland Security document issued by colleges, universities, and vocational schools that provides supporting information for the issuance of a student visa or change of status (F, J and M non-immigrant statuses). Since the introduction of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the form also includes the student tracking number (SEVIS number) for the student and program -- but Obama (Barry Soetoro) was attending school before the SEVIS was put into operation. (Source: Wikipedia.)

• completed passport application and registration of presence forms (vide Formulir Penggantian Paspor: Perdim 14, MPP and Formulir Pendaftaran Diri form A or B for student)
• passpor fee Money Order $ 22.00 to The Indonesian Consulate ( no cash or personal check )(vide Biaya Paspor) For the applicant to apply for a passport renewal by mail, a return envelope must be included two times: first at the time of sending the completed applications and the second at the time the applicant sends the signed passport back to the Consulate.

Other requirements should be included in the above application:

• for the lost of passport, except the original passport, include also the police report, original or certified birth certificate or marriage certificate or family book and a copy of the lost passport (if any)
• for inserting a child onto one of parents passports, include also 4 pieces of child photographs and his/her original or certified birth certificate and child insertion fee (vide Biaya Pemasukan Anak)
• for change of name, include also the original or certified Court Decision regarding the change of name
• for addition of family's or father's name, include also the original or certified birth certificate
• for addition of spouse's name, include also the original or certified copy of marriage certificate
• for those unable to come to the Consulate, include also the letter to the Consulate.

b. Extension of the Passport Validity

Upon request, the following requirements of passport extension may be sent by mail to the Consulate:

• current passport
• completed passport application extension forms (vide Form : MPP and Formulir Pendaftaran Diri form A or B for student)
• 2 pieces pictures size 2x2 inches
• original or certified copy of Green Card
• copy of H1B and I-20 or those who have no identity proof in the U.S. must show the entry visa to the U.S. attached in the applicant passport no passport extension fee

Other requirements should be included in the above application:

• for the lost of passport, except the original passport, include also the police report, original or certified birth certificate or family book and a copy of the lost passport (if any)
• for inserting a child status onto one of parents passports, include also
• 4 pieces of child pictures and his/her original or certified birth certificate and child insertion fee (vide Biaya Pemasukan Anak)
• for change of name, include also the original or certified Court Decision regarding the change of name
• for addition of family's or father's name, include also the original or certified birth certificate
• for addition of spouse's name, include also the original or certified copy of marriage certificate
• for those unable to come to the Consulate, include also the letter to the Consulate

The normal processing time to issue a new passport takes about 1-2 weeks after the completed applications received. Processing time may also take about 3 or 4 weeks if a lot number of passport applications received within that period.

The normal processing time for extension of passport validity takes one working day if the applicant comes over to the Consulate earlier within working hours but not longer than 2 or 3 working days after the application received.

To help processing a new passport in a short time, the applicant is requested to meet all above requirements and to fill out the forms completely. (Source: Indonesian Consulate: Chicago.)

IMPORTANT (SITE NOTE: A paper trail exists. Notice that Pakistan is NOT listed as a visa free country. Therefore, IF Obama possessed an Indonesian passport and used it to visit Pakistan, a Pakistan visa would have to have been issued for entry into the country. Obama would have needed this entry visa for his 1980 trip to Pakistan and Indonesia. As far as we know, no one has inquired of Pakistan whether Obama (Barry Soetoro on an Indonesian passport) had applied for a visa from their embassy/consulate in the U.S. for entry. Obama will say NOTHING of whether he had an Indonesian passport or not. However, it is allegedby the World Net Daily that Obama did NOT have a U.S. passport prior to 2003 when he won his U.S. Senate seat. Obama's passport records are sealed -- and was allegedly "cauterized" in Mar 2008 by the TAC company headed up by his present Intelligence Advisor.)

IMPORTANT (SITE NOTE: A paper trail exists. Notice that Kenya is NOT listed as a visa free country. Therefore, IF Obama possessed an Indonesian passport and used it to visit Kenya, a visa would have to have been issued from Kenya for entry into the country. Obama would have needed this entry visa for his 1987 trip to Kenya -- and trip to Kenya in ca. 1993 with Michelle Obama. As far as we know, no one has inquired of Kenya whether Obama (Barry Soetoro on an Indonesian passport) had applied for a visa from their embassy/consulate in the U.S. for entry. Obama will say NOTHING of whether he had an Indonesian passport or not. However, it is allegedby the World Net Daily that Obama did NOT have a U.S. passport prior to 2003 when he won his U.S. Senate seat. Obama's passport records are sealed -- and was allegedly "cauterized" in Mar 2008 by the TAC company headed up by his present Intelligence Advisor. All Obama information in Kenya has been sealed -- and in Jan 2009 a gag order was issued to the Obama relatives in Kenya to prevent them talking to foreign journalists.)

IMPORTANT A paper trail exists at Punahou, Occidental, Columbia and Harvard in the offices of the International Student Services that assisted with the Form I-20A-B verification. The records of Barry Obama/Barack Obama are sealed, but as far as we know know one has investigated the existence of Barry Soetoro in the records of the ISS at all of the schools. Barry Soetoro is NOT protected.

(SITE NOTE: Notice that the F-1 visa requirement did NOT apply to Obama (Barry Soetoro) when he was in Punahou elementary school, but an F-1 visa would be required for Punahou high school or college. We feel that Ann Dunham and the senior Dunhams in arranging Obama (Barry Soetoro) "scholarship" asked for an F-1 visa for Obama (Barry Soetoro) even though he was to attend elementary school and it would not be required until he was in his FRESHMAN year in 1974. But he would have had to return to Indonesia which was not reasonable -- and once granted for attendance at a private school, it was valid until he completed his education. Thus he obtained an F-1 visa PRIOR to his arriving in Hawaii in 1971.)

• Completed Application Form DS-156, DS- 157, DS -158, DSP- 2019 (IAP 166)

  (SITE NOTE: IMPORTANT The DS-156 and DS-158 for Barry Soetoro would be the paper trail. The DS-156 along with the DS-158 form is required. (a). DS-156 for "All foreign nationals who wish to visit the U.S. on a nonimmigrant visas must submit DS-156 at the U.S. Consulate." (b). DS-157 for "Effective immediately, all male nonimmigrant visa applicants between the ages of 16 and 45, must complete and submit the DS-157 form in addition to the Nonimmigrant Visa Application form DS-156. The DS-157 is used in conjunction with the DS-156 to determine visa classification and eligibility. (c). DS-158 is the Contact Information and Work History for Nonimmigrant Visa Applicant. -- )

• Passport valid for travel to the United States and with a validity date at least six months beyond the applicant's intended period of stay in the United States
• one colored photograph 1 and 1/2 inches square (37 x 37mm) for each applicant, showing a full face, without head covering, against a light background.
• for F visa applicants, a completed Form I-20A-B (Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status for Academic and Language Students) from the institution where the applicant will be attending. M visa applicants, a completed Form I-20M-N. Certificate of Nonimmigrant Student Status for Vocational Students), from the institution the applicant will be attending.
• Original TOEFL scores and SAT, GRE, GMAT scores. (As applicable) Students going to the United States to earn a Bachelor's degree should bring their most recent mark sheets or graduation certificates.
• Students going the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree should bring their original undergraduate degree and mark sheets/Transcripts.
• Spouses and minor children accompanying the student to the United States should bring marriage certificates, wedding photos, and birth certificates with them to the interview, to prove the relationship between themselves and the principal applicant.
• Demand drafts for the applicable fees.

• 1970 -- FIRST Indonesian Passport issued in Jakarta.
  
  PASSPORT: Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971. However, the Punahou School, the coeducational college preparatory day school in Honolulu that Obama attended from 1971 to 1979, was adamant that Obama took his entrance examine in autumn 1970. Regardless this is more support that the passport was issued in 1970. Obama (Barry Soetoro) flew to Hawaii alone on this passport in early 1971. Ann Dunham remained in Indonesia as Maya had just been born in Aug 1970. He entered Punahou in early 1971. Ann Dunham would later fly to Hawaii in 1971 -- just ahead of Obama Sr. from Kenya in Dec 1971. Obama Jr. was already in classes at Punahou when Obama Sr. arrived. (SITE NOTE: We assert that this trip was not a coincidence but for a specific legal matter which we believe was changing Obama's name on his birth certificate. This theory cannot be proven without the vault copy of Obama's birth certificate.)
  
  TUITION ASSISTANCE: F-1 Visa in Jakarta obtained after Punahou school officials signed the Form I-20 paperwork. Senior Dunhams vouched that they would provide food, clothing and shelter for Obama Jr. while being educated at Punahou with a signed document submitted in the packet to obtain the F-1 visa. Arrangements made with Punahou for Obama (Barry Soetoro) to attend on a "scholarship" (foreign student tuition assistance). The "scholarship" was probably in the form of a direct reduction in the tuition fees for the school.
  
  
• In 1975 -- Sophomore at Punahou; Applies for SECOND PASSPORT (first renewal) at Honolulu Indonesian Consulate.
  
  PASSPORT: Obama (Barry Soetoro) would apply for a renewal of his passport at the Indonesian consulate in Honolulu. Paper trail at Indonesian consulate in Honolulu and INS for student visa for Barry Soetoro. Though a requirement for an F-1 visa starts when one enters high school, Obama (Barry Soetoro) probably obtained one in elementary school on his original passport and issued an 1-20 Form by Punahou. No additional paperwork except the application for a renewal at the consulate.
  
  TUITION ASSISTANCE: When Obama entered high school, an F-1 visa was necessary to continue his education under the name of "Barry Soetoro." The F-1 visa that he obtained in Indonesia in 1970 was still valid even though the passport needed to be renewed. The F-1 visa was proof that Obama (Barry Soetoro) was a foreign student -- and his Indonesian passport was essential as proof to continue to recieve his "scholarship" from Punahou. The "scholarship" was probably in the form of a direct reduction in the tuition fees for the school.)
  
  
• 1980 -- Occidental College freshman: Applies for THIRD PASSPORT (second renewal) at Los Angeles Indonesian Consulate.
  
  PASSPORT: Though Obama was a mediocre B student at Punahou and not a student leader nor a standout in sports, he received a "full scholarship" to Occidental. It is alleged that he received tuition assistance as a foreign student using his Indonesian passport and F-1 student visa as "Barry Soetoro." Used on trip to Pakistan and Indonesia in 1981.
  
  Alleged to have been used for obtaining preferential treatment for entry into Columbia University. Issued an 1-20 Form change by Occidental's Office of International Services.

  IMPORTANT Paper trail at Indonesian consulate in Los Angeles and INS for student visa for Barry Soetoro when he changed locations from Hawaii to California. At Occidental, Obama as "Barry Soetoro" he may have been questioned about his dual names ... but most likely he was able to convince people that he was a DUAL citizen enrolled as "Barack Hussein Obama", but qualified for foreign tuition assistance student as "Barry Soetoro." At that time of his application to Occidental, he was still considered a minor dependent over 18 depending on support from Ann Dunham-Soetoro.)

  TUITION ASSISTANCE: Alleged to have used passport proving Indonesian citizenship for preferential treatment for full scholarship to Occidental College. As his mother divorced Lolo Soetoro in 1980, Obama would have to apply to Occidental for tuition assistance as a minor student -- still listed in the divorce decree as above 18 but still dependent because of his education. If Obama (Barry Soetoro) was an international applicant at Occidental, he would have been required to submit the following: (1) Admission Application & Fee; (2) Academic records from Punahou (3) SAT-I or ACT scores (4) Proof of English proficiency would be satisfied by his high school SAT.
  
  Obama would also have been required to complete additional clearance and financial documentation through the Office of International Services before being fully admitted. Transcripts from Punahou would include all courses and grades.
  
  Obama would follow the same procedures in application to Columbia University if he was "gaming" the system. This time he would submit the records from Punahou and Occidental -- showing his foreign student status. Office of International Services approval would be a formality as he had passed the screening at Occidental. Proof of English proficiency for the F-1 visa would have been satisfied by the completion of English Composition I and II with a grade of C or better from Occidental, an accredited U.S. college.
  
  
• 1985 -- Community organizer in Chicago, IL. Applies for FOURTH PASSPORT (third renewal) at Chicago Indonesian Consulate.
  
  PASSPORT: Used on 1987 trip to Kenya. Possibly used for preferential treatment for entry into Harvard.

  IMPORTANT Paper trail at Indonesian consulate in Chicago and INS for student visa for Barry Soetoro. Obama would have had to file a change of location with the INS for his F-1 status. There is a possibility that (1) Obama gained an extension for three years valid until 1988 because of his graduation from Columbia. At that time he was seeking entry into Harvard so this may have been an option used. Upon entry into Harvard in 1987, he would then get two year extension in 1988 valid until 1990. In 1990, he would apply for a new passport as a student in Harvard. (2) It is also possible that Obama (Barry Soetoro) applied for a change of status which is accorded academic students on F-1 visa pending approval of his application to Harvard. The change in status would be temporary.)

  TUITION ASSISTANCE: Obama (Barry Soetoro) would use this passport of proof of Indonesian citizenship. Preferential treatment as a foreign student might explain how a mediocre B student from Punahou high school; a non-descript record from Occidental College; graduating from Columbia University WITHOUT HONORS with a Political Science degree -- and being accepted to Harvard. He is a self-proclaimed "poor boy" but he was able to afford the tuition for Harvard, one of the most expensive colleges in America. His entry could be explained by preferential treatment as a foreign student -- while the payment for his education may be explained by Khalid Al-mansour's actions to "fund" his education through unspecified contributors.
  
  Obama would follow the same procedures used at Columbia in applying to Harvard University to "game" the system. This time he would submit the records from Punahou, Occidental and Columbia -- showing his foreign student status. Office of International Services approval would be a formality as he had passed the screening. Proof of English proficiency to gain an F-1 visa satisfied by his graduation from Columbia.
  
  
• 1990 -- Harvard student in Cambridge, MA. Applies for FIFTH PASSPORT (fourth renewal) either at New York City Consulate or Washington, DC Embassy.
  
  PASSPORT: Used on trip to Bali, Indonesia in 1993 and trip to Kenya ca. 1993 with Michelle Obama;

  IMPORTANT Paper trail at Indonesian embassy at Washington or Consulate in New York City and INS for student visa for Barry Soetoro.

  TUITION ASSISTANCE: Indonesian citizenship continues to allow him to qualify for preferential treatment to continue his studies at Harvard. His financial backing for this expensive education remains clouded, but it is most likely that Obama (Barry Soetoro) did NOT use tuition assistance at Harvard.
  
  
• After 1995 -- Obama is starting to enter state politics and high visibility profile. Allows the Indonesian passport to lapse. Indonesian citizenship also lapses in 1995 after no declaration of location. According to Indonesian law after 5 years of not reporting location, citizenship is terminated.

• (1) NO U.S. PASSPORT PRIOR TO 2003: We propose that Obama had an existing Indonesian passport in 1987 because of the WND reports that Obama had no passport prior to his 2003 election as a U.S. Senator. The World Net Daily's Janet Porter claimed that Obama had NO U.S. passport that could be found prior to becoming a U.S. Senator in 2003. If this is so, how did he travel to Indonesia, then Pakistan and India in 1980 -- and more incriminating, how did he travel to Kenya? But this is still only circumstantial evidence.

  World Net Daily columnist Janet Porter, wrote in her column on 26 Nov 2008 that there are too many questions to ignore. "There's the matter that Obama traveled to Indonesia, Pakistan, Southern India and Kenya in 1981. He said he went to Indonesia to see his mother. This seemed plausible, except for the fact that his mother returned to Hawaii in August of 1980 to file for a divorce from her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. Unless she went back to pal around with the man she divorced, she wasn't there at the time of Obama's visit," Porter wrote. "There's another problem. No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U.S. senator has been found. If he traveled to Pakistan with an American passport, he wouldn't have been allowed in – since Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and under martial law. It was also on the State Department's travel ban list for U.S. citizens," she wrote. "If he couldn't get into Pakistan with a U.S. passport, perhaps he went there with an Indonesian passport. But the only way you can get one of those is if you are an Indonesian citizen," she wrote. (Source: WND.) (SITE NOTE: We have to discount the comment about Ann Dunham being in Hawaii and Obama's visit. The divorce paperwork was filed on 24 Aug 1980 and appears to have been decreed on 4 Nov 1980. Ann Dunham only had to be there in June or July to file and return to Indonesia where she was working for Ford Corporation. We find it plausible. The second is her comment that U.S. citizens were barred. This is erroneous. We have found no ban for travel to Pakistan during that period -- though there were traveler warnings posted, the same as there are now. Pakistan was NOT blocked -- though the military dictatorship did make travel "inconvenient" and outbreaks of riots made it dangerous. However, we agree with her statement that no proof can be found to show that Obama had a passport before 2003. In fact, Obama has ignored/refused to answer any questions dealing with the passport issue. It is an unknown -- and because the timelines fit -- we believe that it is true that he had no U.S. passport prior to 2003.)

• (2) OBAMA LEGALLY ADOPTED BY LOLO SOETORO: This hypothesis is based on the assumption that Lolo Soetoro did legally adopt Obama (Barry Soetoro) and therefore he had Indonesian citizenship. Thus when Obama reached age 10 and returned to Hawaii in 1970, he had in his possession an Indonesian passport. (NOTE: Remember that the legal adoption of Barry Soetoro (Obama) by Lolo Soetoro has NOT been proved. Obama will NOT release any records nor confirm this fact. We have seen no proof that a legal adoption took place either in Hawaii or Indonesia. The use of the Bekusi school form is NOT conclusive proof of the citizenship issue. However, Indonesian law experts state that it is virtually impossible to attend Indonesian schools without proof of Indonesian citizenship. As the Obama records in Hawaii and Indonesia are sealed, nothing can be proven -- or disproven. Without official records access from Indonesia, the U.S. government or the State of Hawaii nothing can be proven.) (SEE Is Obama an Indonesian?.)
  
  

  Remember that Obama was NOT a dual citizen. Barry Soetoro was Indonesian and one identity. Barry Dunham/Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama was American and one identity. Because of the circumstances of the Indonesian government not recognizing any other nationality except Indonesian, Barry Soetoro was only Indonesian because of his Indonesian adoption. The U.S., on the other hand, would be unaware that Barry Dunham had been adopted in Indonesia -- and no legal name change had been entered on his birth certificate. He was still American. He had simply returned to the U.S. and reclaimed his citizenship because under U.S. law a minor's citizenship cannot be affected by the actions of the parents or legal guardians.
  
  As far as the U.S. was concerned, Obama was a U.S. citizen as Barry Dunham/Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama. These were two separate identities. If presented a tuition assistance form as a foreign student, a Punahou school official would naturally assume that "Barry Dunham" was Indonesian (Barry Soetoro) for tuition purposes with a passport as proof -- but being a dual citizen would be allowed to use the name on his Hawaii birth certificate, "Barry Dunham", until he reached the age of majority. The normal education bureaucrat would have no reason to know that Indonesia did NOT allow dual citizenship. (SITE NOTE: Obama was enrolled in the 5th Grade at Punahou School as "Barry Dunham" -- using his mother's maiden name -- as he was fatherless on his birth certificate. Ann Dunham returned from Indonesia just before Obama Sr. returned from Kenya in Dec 1971. Obama Sr. remained in Hawaii for one month and we hypothesize that it was at this point that Obama was legally entered as "Barack Hussein Obama II" on the birth certificate. After this was done, Obama was registered at Punahou as "Barack Hussein Obama" but went by the name "Barry Obama" for the remainder of his time at Punahou.)

  In 1971, it is an accepted fact that Obama had Indonesian citizenship. However, what happens after that is where the dispute comes about. The Obama supporters claim that the 1952 Immigration & Nationality Act, Title III, Chapter 3, Sections 349 and 355, which was in effect in the late 1960s when Obama went to Indonesia, and which stated that a minor does not lose his U.S. citizenship upon the naturalization of his parents (or any other actions of his parents), so long as the minor returns to the U.S. and establishes permanent U.S. residency before the age of 21. This Obama did when he returned in 1970 to Hawaii for schooling. (Source: Tesibria.) To his supporters, Obama was NOT an Indonesian citizen as he let his citizenship default. Under this assumption, if Obama had his old Indonesian passport that he used to enter Hawaii, it was one that was issued when he was a minor and does not prove that he renounced his U.S. citizenship.
  
  However, this assumption is predicated upon the belief that Obama did NOT take any actions to retain his Indonesian citizenship. To retain your citizenship, all Obama at this point would have to do is go to the Indonesian consulate in Honolulu in 1975 (figuring that he obtained his passport in 1970 to travel alone to Hawaii) and apply for a new passport. At that point he would give his location to the embassy stating he was attending school in America. This would be when he was a sophomore at Punahou. IMPORTANT Obama would also have to have had a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service visa stamp for attending school in America. As far as we know, the mainstream media nor anyone else has researched this angle or applied for any information from the INS on BARRY SOETORO.
  
  However, even if he didn't officially renounce his Indonesian citizenship and claiming it lapsed, his actions by retaining and using the passport was a formal act of recognizing his Indonesian citizenship. If Obama used his passport at any point as proof to garner tuition assistance or a scholarship grant, he would have tactitly taken action to retain his Indonesian citizenship. Officially swearing an allegiance to America is an irrelevant fact. The problem is that all of Obama's school records -- from Punahou, Occidental, Columbia and Harvard are sealed. Obama refuses to release any of his records. The problem is that he traveled on an the alleged INDONESIAN PASSPORT in 1980 when he was 20. This means he did NOT reject his Indonesian citizenship -- and instead ACCEPTED HIS INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP. However, nothing can be proved at this point because, the Indonesian records on Obama are sealed by act of the Indonesian government -- and Obama refuses to answer any questions dealing with the trip, his passport or Indonesian citizenship.
  
  According to a Department of Justice survey of Law of Expatriation (Jun 2002), "Expatriating a U.S. citizen subject to the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the ground that, after reaching the age of 18, the person has obtained foreign citizenship or declared allegiance to a foreign state generally will not be possible absent substantial evidence, apart from the act itself, that the individual specifically intended to relinquish U.S. citizenship. An express statement of renunciation of U.S. citizenship would suffice. An intent to renounce citizenship can be inferred from the act of serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities against the United States." Obama does not fit into any of these categories but has produced no document of swearing allegiance.
  
  The following was posted by Kalani O'Sullivan at Citizen Wells in Jan 2009:
  
  

  Also I believe Obama was adopted in Indonesia — NOT Hawaii. There will be no annotation on his Hawaii birth certificate of this name change as such. HOWEVER, I also believe he gamed the system as Barry Soetoro. Under the Indonesian law, there was no dual citizenship — meaning that once adopted by Lolo Soetoro — so that he could attend public schools because they couldn't afford the expensive International Schools — Obama became INDONESIAN. When he returned to the U.S., he was "Barry Dunham," a U.S. citizen because no action of a parent or legal guardian can affect the citizenship of a minor. Thus Obama was in an enviable position to be two separate entities — two distinct identities. (SITE NOTE: We believe Barack Hussein Obama was legally entered onto his birth certificate in Dec 1971 when Ann Dunham returned to Hawaii from Indonesia and Obama Sr returned to Hawaii from Kenya. Obama had already been entered into Punahou as "Barry Dunham." After the name change, he was changed on Punahou records as "Barack Hussein Obama" but went by "Barry Obama.")
  
  THE FOLLOWING IS CONJECTURE AND NOT PROVABLE WITHOUT CHECKS OF INS RECORDS — INDONESIAN RECORDS SEALED. The paper trail would be that Barry Soetoro would have to have applied for a student visa to remain in the country.
  
  As long as no one cross-checked "Barry Soetoro" with "Barry Dunham/Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama," these two identities could co-exist without problems. "Barry Soetoro" could maintain an Indonesian passport obtained in 1970, renewed in 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1990. On these passports it was possible to make trips to Pakistan/Indonesia in 1971, Kenya in 1978, and to Bali, Indonesia in 1993 and to Kenya ca. 1993 with Michelle Obama. All he had to do was every five years contact the Indonesian embassy/consulate of his intentions to pursue a student visa in America.
  
  With the Indonesian citizenship, he could qualify for foreign student preference and tuition assistance. He would have obtained a student visa from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and extended it whenever he changed schools. After 1995, Obama allowed the passport to lapse as he was now becoming a high profile public figure as he entered Illinois state politics. He obtained a U.S. passport in 2003 as Barack Obama when he became a U.S. senator as a requirement for going on fact-finding missions.

• (3) FIRST PASSPORT 1970-1975 (INDONESIA): Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971. However, the Punahou School, the coeducational college preparatory day school in Honolulu that Obama attended from 1971 to 1979, was adamant that Obama took his entrance examine in autumn 1970. Regardless this is more support that the passport was issued in 1970. Obama received his FIRST Indonesian passport when he returned to Hawaii on his own in 1970. The reasoning is that he was NOT traveling on his mother's passport as she remained in Indonesia until 1972 when she returned to Hawaii with Maya Soetoro. Ann Dunham returned to Indonesia in 1974 to do her fieldwork for her Masters in anthropology leaving Obama with his grandparents. The issue of an Indonesian passport is important as it would prove whether Obama retained his Indonesian nationality even into adulthood. From circumstantial evidence, we surmise that Obama was once an INDONESIAN citizen -- when Obama received his Indonesian citizenship upon being adopted by his step-father.
  
  The adoption of Obama cannot be investigated because Obama will not admit to being adopted and Indonesian records are sealed. Likewise the issuance of an Indonesian passport to Barry Soetoro in 1970 cannot be investigated because all records dealing with Obama are sealed. If a passport was issued to Barry Soetoro, there are records at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia where Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have applied for a visa to enter Hawaii. As far as we know, the MSM has NOT investigated this angle.
  
  If he was in the U.S. on an Indonesian passport, he would have been in the U.S. for either (1) immigration or (2) student visa. Again as pure supposition, we believe that Obama's grandparents saw a financial incentive for Obama retaining an Indonesian passport. It would be to qualify for a scholarship for foreign students from Punahou. If Obama was on a scholarship to Punahou School as a Indonesian foreign student, he could have maintained the visa with the Immigration and Naturalization services almost indefinitely. Again as far as we know, the MSM has not investigated this angle. Some bloggers have attempted to investigate the Indonesian citizenship angle through the INS, but were thwarted by regulations on privacy issues. (SITE NOTE: Punahou would be called an International School by world standards. Much like the University of Hawaii's East West Center where Obama's father attended, Punahou would attempt to attract students who will latter become leaders in their respective nations. With Obama, it hit the jackpot.)
  
  Obama entered Punahou School -- a very expensive private school -- in Hawaii in 1971 entering the 5th grade. We believe he entered Hawaii alone bearing an Indonesian passport as Barry Soetoro. An F-1 Student visa had been obtained for Obama Jr. (Barry Soetoro) as Punahou had signed off on a tuition assistance as foreign student on a Form I-20A-B submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. The visa was one which allowed for Obama Jr. to continue his education in America indefinitely until he completed his education because Punahou was a private school. (F-1 visas for public schools are only good for one year and require financial reimbursment statements.) This cannot be investigated as Punahou School records are sealed.
  
  
• (4) SECOND PASSPORT 1975-1980 (HAWAII CONSULATE): Obama RENEWED the passport from the Indonesian consulate in Hawaii in 1975 for his SECOND passport. As a general rule worldwide, first passports are valid for five years and the next passports are valid for ten years. Figuring that Obama traveled to Indonesia on his mother's U.S. passport, he would have been issued his FIRST Indonesian passport when he was 10 upon his return to Hawaii as a minor in 1970. This means that he would have had to renew this passport in 1975 with the consulate in Hawaii -- meaning records exist. At this time, Obama still falls under the dual citizen category as a minor. By this time, Obama was in the 10th grade at Punahou and most likely his grandparents assisted him in this as his mother had returned to Indonesia. This SECOND passport would have been valid ten years (1985) and would be used for his trip to visit his mother in Indonesia via Pakistan in 1981.
  
  The question arises as to the presence of Barry Soetoro in the United States if he was on an Indonesian passport. Questions should be asked of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: Honolulu (595 Ala Moana Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Facsimile (808) 532-6386 Email: hawaii.naturalization@dhs.gov) on the presence of Barry Soetoro in the U.S. He would need to do so as long as he was at Punahou School from 1970-1979. He would have reported his presence to the Indonesian Consulate in Honolulu, Hawaii (98-1032 Alania St., Aiea, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96701 Phone : (808) 527-6291) as Barry Soetoro -- though going by Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama at this time -- to corroborate his status if he applied for any scholarships for foreign students at Punahou. However, this Consulate position seems to be an appointed position that may not be permanent -- and records may be lacking.
  
  Under Indonesian law, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have had to have had verified his "Indonesian citizenship once in 5 years consecutively and then every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General in order to preserve his nationality from revocation. There would have to have records at the Consulate for (1) meeting his notification requirement in 1975 and (2) requesting of a passport renewal in 1975. There would also have records for his notification of residence in 1977 and 1979 before he moved to LA and Occidental College.

  (SITE NOTE: We again question the MSM as to not providing any investigative research into this fact -- nor questioning Obama about this obvious anomaly in his story. As far as we know, no one has questioned the Indonesian consulate in Hawaii whether a passport was renewed through them in 1980 for Barry Soetoro (Obama). If this hypothesis is valid, there are major reprecussions. Obama has filed numerous FALSE statements of his citizenship. There are massive legal problems if Obama admits to Indonesian citizenship.
  
  As far as we know, the MSM has NOT investigated this angle.)

• (5) THIRD PASSPORT 1980-1985 (LOS ANGELES CONSULATE): Indonesian passports are valid only for five years. Obama would have had to apply for a new passport in Los Angeles when he attended Occidental College. Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA on a "full scholarship," but nowhere is it mentioned what type of scholarship. It is assumed that it was a an athletic scholarship, but Obama only played on the Junior Varsity team. There is a possibility that Obama was using his Indonesian citizenship to obtain student grants for foreign students. This cannot be investigated as Occidental College records are sealed.
  
  Records may be present if Barry Soetoro (Obama) reported his presence to to the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles, CA (645 S Mariposa Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90005 (213) 383-5126). He would need to do this as corroboration if he applied for student loans as a foreign student while at Occidental College from 1979-1981. Under Indonesian law, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have had to have had verified his "Indonesian citizenship" every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General in order to preserve his nationality from revocation. There would have to have records at the Consulate for (1) relocation to LA in 1979 and (2) notification of residence in 1979 and 1981 before he moved to Columbia University in New York.
  
  He would also need to notify the US Immigration and Naturalization Service: Los Angeles (300 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles - (213) 830-5160). He would need to report his presence as on a student visa while at Occidental College from 1979-1981.
  
  Obama was going by Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama by this time, so the Indonesian identity was masked. Everyone around him assumed that he was American.
  
  When Obama transferred in 1981 to Columbia University, the monetary incentive remained as Obama would qualify for low-interest loans/grants for foreign students. It is also possible that Obama could have gained preferential treatment for entrance to Columbia University based on foreign student status. However, this cannot be investigated as the Columbia University records are sealed.
  
  Records may be present if Obama as Barry Soetoro may have reported his presence to to the Indonesian Consulate in New York, NY (5 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, (212) 879-0600 Fax (212) 570-6206). He would need to report his presence as corroboration if he applied for student loans as a foreign student while at Columbia University in New York from 1981-1983. Under Indonesian law, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have had to have had verified his "Indonesian citizenship" every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General in order to preserve his nationality from revocation. There would have to have records at the Consulate for (1) relocation to New York in 1981 and (2) notification of residence in 1981 and 1983.
  
  He would also need to notify the US Immigration and Naturalization Service: New York. He would need to report his presence as on a F-1 student visa while at Columbia from 1981-1983.
  
  On his trip to Pakistan in 1981, issuance of a visa on the Indonesian passport for Barry Soetoro should be recorded at the Pakistan Consulate in New York, NY (12 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065 (212) 879-5800). Issuance of an exit visa and entrance visa for Barry Soetoro -- NOT Barack Hussein Obama -- should be on file with the US INS in New York as the approximate dates for his journey are known. In addition, Barry Seotoro (Obama) would have to register with the INS every year on his location if he was using a student visa.

  SITE NOTE: From our perspective, officially swearing an allegiance to America for Obama is an irrelevant fact -- though Philip Berg maintains it is. If he traveled on an the INDONESIAN PASSPORT in 1980 when he was 20. This to Philip Berg means he did NOT reject his Indonesian citizenship -- and instead ACCEPTED HIS INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP. According to most sources, (1) Voting in a foreign election, serving in a foreign army, or (2) swearing allegiance to a foreign government used to be automatic grounds for losing U.S. citizenship. However, to us, it would be impossible to make as case as he was still under the age of majority.
  
  But a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 made it all but impossible for someone to lose U.S. citizenship unless he or she wants to give it up. What everyone is losing sight of in this argument of the Indonesian passport is that no one is challenging Obama's U.S. citizenship. It is only challenging him as a "natural born citizen" -- one who owes no allegiance to a foreign power. Even if he did accept the Indonesian passport, we are under no illusions. If taken to court, Obama would almost certainly retain his U.S. citizenship. We are not attempting to prove he is NOT an American citizen -- because we certainly believe that he is as he has one parent who was an American. We are only saying that he lost his right to be President when he accepted the citizenship of Indonesia by accepting the Indonesian passport when he was past the age of majority, 21 years old.

• (6) FOURTH PASSPORT 1985-1990 (CHICAGO CONSULATE) -- THE SMOKING GUN: The third passport would have expired in 1985. Then the question comes on what passport did he use on his trip to Kenya in 1987 after he had graduated from Columbia and moved to Chicago -- and just before he entered Harvard in 1988. Remember that Obama supposedly did NOT have a U.S. passport until he became a U.S. Senator in 2003. If he kept his Indonesian passport -- and renewed it -- it would be the most damning of evidence as he was undeniably an ADULT of 27 -- well past the years of majority. This would mean he INTENTIONALLY chose to maintain his Indonesian citizenship.
  
  If he traveled to Kenya in 1987 on an Indonesian passport, it would seal his fate. Obama would have been 27 years old -- well past the age of majority. If he used this passport, there is no quibbling. He INTENTIONALLY chose to do so -- and the acceptance of the Indonesian passport would be equivalent of the renunciation of U.S. citizenship. We seriously question why the MSM as of Nov 2008 has not researched whether Obama had an Indonesian passport earlier. After the citizenship questions were raised, both Indonesia and Kenya stated that the records dealing with Obama were sealed.
  
  Obama was going by the name of Barack Hussein Obama by this time, so the Indonesian identity was completely masked. Everyone around him assumed that he was American.
  
  Obama moved to Chicago in 1985 and would have been where he probably obtained his THIRD Indonesian passport at the Indonesian Consultate. Records should be available through the Indonesian Consulate in Chicago, IL (211 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606) to check for the issuance of a passport to Barry Soetoro in 1985 -- though going by Barack Hussein Obama at this time. (IMPORTANT SITE NOTE: If according to our theory, Obama did obtain a passport in 1985 at the Indonesian Consulate, there are records on hand to prove this hypothesis -- or disprove it. According to their website, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have had to have had verified his "Indonesian citizenship once in 5 years consecutively and then every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General in order to preserve his nationality from revocation. There would have to have records in Chicago from 1985 when he moved there and possibly in 1987 when he moved to Boston to enter Harvard. There would have to be records at the Consulate for (1) relocation to Chicago in 1985 and (2) notification of residence in 1985 and 1987 before he moved to Harvard in Boston. In addition, he may have needed the corroboration from the Consulate for applications to Harvard if he were making applications as a foreign student. )

  STATUS OF INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP FOR INDONESIAN HAVING RESIDENCE OVERSEAS
  
  Article 17k of the Indonesian Act on Citizenship no. 62/1958 in regard to the lost of Indonesian Citizenship stating that instead of the state duties abroad, Indonesian citizens age 18 years or above or the underaged married, is required to verify their Indonesian citizenships once in 5 years consecutively and then every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General (called as Mission) in order to persevere their nationalities from revocation.
  
  Indonesian citizens living abroad are advised to read this regulation written on the reverse side of the passport book (page 48).
  
  The following steps may prevent from losing Indonesian citizenship while living abroad :

  • Verify your nationality in written to the Mission close to your residence abroad. For Indonesian citizens living in Midwest area, verification and completed identity as stated in page 1 and 2 of the passport should be sent to the Indonesian Consulate General, Address: 211 West Wacker 8 Floors, Chicago, IL 60606 or send email to : consular@indonesiachicago.org
  • Renew passport validity on a timely manner. The Indonesian Consulate General in Chicago will accept the application for passport renewal from those whose passports have 6-month-validity before its expiration.
  • Indonesian citizenship Acts no. 62/1958 only recoqnizes one single citizenship not double citizenships;
  • For those who stay abroad more than 3 months, are recommended to register their presences to the nearby Mission (vide Registration of Presence). (Source: Indonesian Consulate: Chicago.)

  Upon moving to Boston, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have to had reported his presence to the nearest consulate which would have been the Indonesian Consulate in New York, NY (5 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, (212) 879-0600 Fax (212) 570-6206) which he should have been familiar with from his days at Columbia. He would need to report his presence as corroboration if he applied for student loans as a foreign student while at Harvard from 1987-1989. Under Indonesian law, Barry Soetoro (Obama) would have had to have had verified his "Indonesian citizenship" every 2 years to the nearby Indonesian Embassy or Consulate General in order to preserve his nationality from revocation. There would have to be records at the Consulate for (1) relocation to Boston in 1987 and (2) notification of residence in 1987 and 1989 before he moved to Chicago.
  
  
• (7) FIFTH PASSPORT 1990-1995 (NEW YORK CONSULATE OR WASHINGTON DC INDONESIAN EMBASSY) -- THE ICING ON THE CAKE: Again the motive for retaining an Indonesian passport after entering Harvard would be primarily a monetary incentive to qualify for loans/grants for foreign students. It is also possible that Obama gained preferential entrance to Harvard University based on foreign student status. However, the Harvard College records are sealed.
  
  We do not believe that Obama used it for tuition assistance since by this time he had influential backers in the form of Khalid al-Mansour with unspecified donors contributing to Obama's education. The passport and Indonesian citizenship were maintained to keep his preferential treatment status at Harvard that allowed him entry in the first place.
  
  After graduating from Harvard, there would be no more incentive to retain an Indonesian passport and citizenship. It had served its purpose. However, he may have used the passport again in 1993 for a trip to Bali, Indonesia for three months to complete his "memoir", Dreams of My Father. He may also have reused it on an undocumented trip to Kenya ca. 1993 after he married Michelle Obama.
  
  After 1995, Obama entered American politics and would by common sense have allowed the passport to lapse and have hidden its existence to the public. He did not obtain a U.S. passport until 2003 after he was elected to the U.S. Senate. In March 2008, the State Department passport agency records were broken into. Allegations by Newsmax are that the break-in was to "cauterize" Obama's passport records -- especially since the Obama intelligence advisor happened to be the head of the company (TAC) that was handling the contract for the passport agency. (SITE NOTE: We suggest that it may also have been to input data to show a passport existed before 2003, but then a paper trail would show this up if someone in government ever investigated.)
  
  

It was during Barry's first year at Punahou School that his long-lost father stepped briefly into his life, and just as quickly disappeared again. He came for the month of December, and his mother returned from Indonesia beforehand to prepare Barry for the visit. She taught him more about Kenya and stories of the Luo people, but all of that knowledge dissolved at the first sight of the old man. He seemed far skinnier than Barry had imagined him, and more fragile, with his spectacles and blue blazer and ascot and yellowish eyes.

It was not an easy month, and what stuck in the boy's memory were the basketball that his dad gave him as a present and two dramatic events: when his father ordered him, in front of his mother and grandparents, to turn off the TV and study instead of watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and when his father came to Miss Mabel Hefty's fifth-grade class at Punahou's Castle Hall to talk about Kenya. The first moment angered Barry; the second made him proud. But nothing much lingered after his father was gone. (Source: Washington Post.)

He last saw his father in 1971, when he was 10 years old and living in Hawaii. Barack Obama Sr., remarried and living in his native Kenya, sent word that he wanted to visit his son over Christmas.

To the son, he had become a ghost, an opaque figure hailed as brilliant, charismatic, dignified, with a deep baritone voice that reminded everyone of James Earl Jones. All the boy knew was that his father had gone off to study at Harvard and never come back. Now, the old man would put flesh on the ghost.

On the day his father arrived, young Barack, known as Barry then, left school early and headed toward his grandparents' apartment, his legs leaden, his chest pounding. He nervously rang the doorbell. His grandmother opened the door, and there in the hallway was a dark, slender man wearing horn-rimmed glasses and sporting a blue blazer and scarlet ascot.

"He crouched down and put his arms around me, and I let my arms hang at my sides," the son recalled in "Dreams From My Father," a soul-baring memoir rare for a politician, written long before Obama contemplated a run for the White House.

"Well, Barry," his father said. "It is a good thing to see you after so long. Very good."

For a month, the father hung around, speaking to his son's fifth-grade class, taking the boy to a Dave Brubeck concert, but never quite re-establishing himself.

The trip's pivotal moment came one night as Barry prepared to watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," the annual Dr. Seuss special. The father said the boy had watched enough television and insisted that he go to his room to study. Barry's mother and grandparents intervened in what became a heated family argument. But they proved no match for the strong-willed father, who in an instant had reclaimed the paternal role he had long ago abdicated.

Barry went to his room, slammed the door and "began to count the days until my father would leave and things would return to normal." (Source: Courant.)

Speaking of this experience, Obama said, "I know what it means to have an absent father, although my circumstances weren't as tough as they are for many young people today. Even though my father left us when I was 2 years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most. I grew up in Hawaii, and had two wonderful grandparents from Kansas who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me and who worked with her to teach us about love and respect and the obligations we have to one another." (Source: Fatherhood.about.com.) Note that here again Obama constructs this romantic image of his father who has sent letters and stories the family told. Obama story tellers attempt to paint a picture of Ann Dunham maintaining contact with Obama Sr. after her divorces through letters for the sake of Obama. In truth, Obama's grandmother called his father "Straaange" to a Obama researcher.

What appears strange is the question: After walking out on Obama Jr. permanently in 1962 and divorcing his mother in 1964, why would he return to Hawaii AND STAY WITH THE DUNHAMS WHO HAD NO REASON TO LIKE HIM AT ALL? Why wouldn't he stay with his good buddy friends (Neil Abercrombie or Pake Zane) instead of the Dunhams? The reason would have to be that there was a particular reason for his presence that involved not only Ann Dunham, but also Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. Obama Sr.'s presence was required for a month. THIS SUGGESTS THAT THERE WAS LEGAL PAPERWORK THAT HAD TO BE PROCESSED. This would explain why after all the bad history between Obama Sr. and the Dunham family, he stayed with them.

However, what kind of paperwork cannot be discerned. We have considered all possibilities, but we still cannot come up with any feasible scenarios where legal paperwork was involved -- that is unless Barack Obama was illegitimate without a father on his birth certificate and Ann Dunham perjured herself on her divorce paperwork. As one sees, things get a little ridiculous. The birth certificate (vault copy) would answer a lot of questions and limit the possibilities as to why Obama Sr. was really in Hawaii. The idea that after 10 years missing from the life of his child Obama Sr. would show up to try to establish a bond that never existed in the first place is even worse than the other scenarios dealing with illegitimacy or perjury.

THE BOTTOMLINE IS THAT WE CANNOT COME UP WITH A GOOD EXPLANATION AS TO WHY OBAMA SR. WOULD RETURN TO HAWAII AT THE SAME TIME ANN DUNHAM RETURNED TO HAWAII. WE CAN ONLY EXPLAIN THAT THE MEETING WAS NOT COINCIDENTAL AND THAT OBAMA SR'S STAYING AT THE DUNHAM'S APARTMENT MEANT THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING OF AN UNKNOWN NATURE THAT WAS BEING DONE. THAT THE STAY WAS OF A ONE MONTH DURATION SEEMS TO SUGGEST IT WAS OF A LEGAL NATURE BUT WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TYPE.

We theorize that it was to legally input Obama Sr.'s name onto the birth certificate as Obama Jr. was actually born fatherless -- resulting in his enrollment in Punahou under Ann Dunham's maiden name. This was a noble deed -- but Obama Jr. has turned it into a Constitutional Crisis.

The presence of both Ann Dunham and Obama Sr. in Hawaii at the same time confirms that this was NOT a chance meeting. That Obama Sr. stayed at the Dunham apartment indicates that this was a matter that also involved the Dunhams as well as Ann and Obama Sr. We can surmise that Ann Dunham arrived in Dec 1971 at the same time that Obama Sr. came to Hawaii because of her photos in the "airport" photos. Maya Soetoro was born in Aug 1970 in Indonesia -- and she may or may not have been brought along on this visit -- but accounts seem to indicate she was left in Indonesia.

Some critics disregard any Obama-Dunham connection altogether on the reason Obama Sr. returned to Hawaii in Dec 1971. We do NOT hold to their view. According to Atlas Shrugs, "The sad truth for Barack Hussein Obama Jr, is that Obama Sr didn't return to Hawaii in December 1971 to see his son, but rather to go party with his friends Neil (Abercrombie) and Pake (Zane). That is why there aren't any pictures of Obama Jr. with his dad as an infant, nor are there any pictures of the Dunham grandparents and Obama Sr. Sadly the only picture from when Obama Jr's dad returned to Hawaii is at the airport while Obama Sr. waited for his luggage." Late in 1968, Neil Abercrombie and Pake Zane traveled through Nairobi on a year-long backpacking trip around the world and stayed with Obama for several days before they made their way on to the port city of Mombasa and to India. No mention was made of Stanley "Ann" Dunham or Barack Hussein Obama Jr. during that visit. Neil Abercrombie is now Hawaii State's 1st district Representative in the U.S. Congress. Pake Zane runs a store called Antique Alley in Hawaii. Atlas Shrugs feels that Obama had no interest in Obama Jr. at all.

We disagree with Atlas Shrugs belief that Obama Sr. was in Hawaii to only see his old friends. We believe that Obama was in Hawaii for a purpose ... and this is the reason he stayed with the Dunhams -- instead of his old buddies. As to the photo at the airport Atlas Shrugs is wrong as it was when Obama Sr. was leaving -- not arriving. The photo is at the checkin counter not baggage carousel. This was a farewell as Obama Jr. met Obama Sr. for the first time when he returned to the Dunham apartment.


Photo at airport in 1971


Photo at airport in 1971 (NOTE: Taken at airport when Obama Sr. left as Obama first greeted Obama Sr. at Dunham's apartment.)

There are two possibilities as to the type of legal paperwork that was being done during the month long period:

• (1) The divorce paperwork of Mar 1964 that contained "Barack Hussein Obama II" was a legal lie. Ann Dunham had perjured herself when she swore that Obama was born as "Barack Hussein Obama." The significance of the divorce decree is that once the document was finalized, the paternity of Obama was established. IF in fact, Obama was illegitimate and there was NO birth father annotated on the birth certificate, we feel that Ann Dunham could have easily used the divorce decree as "proof" of paternity and enter Obama Sr.'s name. However, there may have been legal difficulties in pursuing this tact as it would expose her to accusations of perjury. Under this scenario, Ann Dunham did NOT take any action to change the name on the birth certificate and the father's name entry on the birth certificate was left blank. THIS IS ONLY A POSSIBILITY -- BUT UNDEFENSIBLE WITHOUT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE (VAULT COPY) OF OBAMA.
  
  The main question others might pose to this scenario is why wouldn't Obama -- if he was a party to this marriage scam -- have not placed his name on the birth certificate. One reason may be that he knew that once his name was on the birth certificate, he would become pecuniarily liable for the child's support. This was NOT part of the original agreement to simply lend his name in public as the father of the child. But this is a weak argument. To be truthful, we simply do not know why the birth certificate would be fatherless. The only reason that we pose this scenario is that it explains why Obama was entered into Punahou in 1970 using his mother's maiden name as "Barry Dunham." (We do not buy argument of Obama's adoption by the senior Dunhams.) Nothing else seems to make sense as to why he would NOT have been registered as "Barack Hussein Obama II."
  
  Remember that no marriage license/certificate has ever been discovered -- even in the county seat in a tiny town of Wailuku back in 1961 and the exact date and location known. This was before the population explosion of the 1970s and the Lahaina tourist boom and Maui was a backwater place to live with a small local population and only a moderate amount of tourists. If the marriage license/certificate was obtained in Honolulu, the same results apply of no documentation found. The only "proof" that there was a wedding is the sworn statement of Ann Dunham on her divorce complaint -- and uncontested by Obama Sr. No other proof exists. There are many holes in the marriage story starting with the fact that under Hawaii law any female under 18 must have the written consent of BOTH parents -- and the Obama story states that Ann and Obama Sr. ran off without the consent of the family.
  
  Under this scenario, Obama Sr. returned to enter his name as the official birth father to correct the "oversight" made ten years prior. This is made with the assumption that Ann Dunham applied for a "late birth" or "home birth" birth certificate -- and Obama was not available at the time of birth (i.e., the birth was in Washington, Canada or Kenya). Under the provisions of Hawaii for registering a "late birth" at the time, Ann Dunham could even have registered the birth of Obama as late as 1962 when she returned to Hawaii from Washington state.
  
  
  Ann Dunham files for divorce as "grievous mental suffering"
  
  
  Obama Jr's name listed as child of the marriage. However, the problem is that Ann Dunham may have perjured herself on this document. It states that the marriage was legal, but under Hawaii law a female under 18 must obtain the consent of BOTH her parents. No licensing agent would sign the form without both parents consent as she was underage by identification. According to the Obama story, Ann Dunham and Obama Sr. ran off to Maui to be married without friends, family or witnesses. No marriage license/certificate has ever been found -- and many suspect there was never any marriage. The marriage ceremony becomes a moot point with divorce decree. Though this divorce decree would prove paternity for Obama Sr., it could NOT be used to enter Obama Sr.'s name if Obama Jr. was listed as fatherless on the birth certificate. The question of why no father was listed on the birth certificate using a divorce decree to establish paternity would expose Ann Dunham to the risk of perjury charges -- and voiding of the divorce decree.
  
  
  Ann Dunham swears that the aforementioned was true.
  
  The main point is that the birth certificate may have had no father entered at the time of birth. Obama Sr. came to Hawaii to testify that he was the birth father. Obama's own father and mother's wedding in Hawaii may not have been properly documented. "How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore," Obama writes in his memoir. Obama has never produced records of his supposed parent's marriage or divorce -- and some critics surmise that they most likely don't exist. The story goes that six months after Dunham married Obama Sr. on Feb. 2, 1961, Obama was born on Aug 4, 1961. (SITE NOTE: The mainstream media has chosen not to investiqate this inconsistency.)
  
  For this matter, who the biological father of Obama is simply a side-issue. It only matters what is on the birth certificate. We do NOT hold to the Atlas Shrugs theory that Ann became pregnant from a "prominent black liberal activist" who we assume is Frank Marshall Davis -- but then continues to make allusions to similarities of Obama to Malcom X (Malcolm Little). We do NOT agree with their train of thought, but we DO agree that the timeline is suspicious. "She then conceived Barack Hussein Obama Jr. only one month after she started classes Sept 26th 1960. Then, while only two months pregnant in early January 1961, Stanley "Ann" Dunham drops out of college. She then supposedly married Barack Obama Sr. three months after conception and only four months after arriving in Hawaii. And only 10 months after first arriving in Hawaii, she is back at the University of Washington, 2680 miles away." For now, we simply state that we do not know who the father could be. It is plausible that Obama could be the father -- if you believe in fairy-tale whirlwind courtships of meeting in class, getting pregnant after one month, dropping out of school and then getting married four months later. It is also plausible that Frank Marshall Davis MIGHT be the father if one believes that the events described in his 1968 sex novel, "Sex Rebel: Black", are true and the 13-year old Anne is really 17-year old Ann Dunham. The fact is that anyone could be the father. What is fact is that the divorce paperwork is "proof" of Obama Sr.'s paternity -- but again only if one believes that Ann Dunham did not perjure herself when she signed the divorce complaint.
  
  
  Frank Marshall Davis
  
  
  Sex Rebel: Black by Bob Green (Frank Marshall Davis) (1968)
  
  Our belief is that at that time of Obama's birth, Obama Sr. -- who may or may not be the birth father -- agreed to be publicly known as the father in order to gain a financial arrangement from the Dunhams. He was planning to return to Kenya after his graduation -- and only later was accepted to Harvard -- with the intercession of some influential backers. We believe this "marriage" was only to be a temporary arrangement in Hawaii before Obama Sr. disappeared back into Kenya. The birth story was all a sham to cover up the shame of an illegitimate birth. When Obama was born the newspaper birth notice address was DIFFERENT (6085 Kalaniana'ole) from the address shown for Obama Sr. (625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki). We are certain that there was NO FAMILY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANN DUNHAM AND BARACK OBAMA SR AFTER OBAMA JR. WAS BORN.
  
  Following the logic of this theory, the dissolution of the marriage would have been originally planned for 1962 when Obama graduated from the UH and finished just before he returned to Kenya in Jun 1962, but had to be delayed until 1964 because Obama had obtained a scholarship to Harvard. The long-distance complicated the divorce as it had to be handled via registered mail. It was decided to conclude the divorce in 1964 BEFORE Obama left for Kenya because an international divorce would lead to further complications. The senior Dunhams most likely obtained and paid for both the lawyers for Obama and Dunham that practiced IN HONOLULU. As the divorce was uncontested with no child support or visitation problems, it was concluded without any problems. Note that if there never was a marriage in the first place and no father was listed on Obama's birth certificate, Ann Dunham had to have perjured herself if filing for this divorce.

  (SITE NOTE: In Hawaii, illegitimate births were common amongst the Hawaiian populace and the concept of "hanai" being raised by one's relatives was NOT considered a major disgrace. In a 1959 interview with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Obama Sr. described the absence of racial prejudice in Hawaii as "unique." No one, he marveled, "seems to be conscious of color." Obama Sr's perceptions of race relations in Hawaii were that he thought it "rather strange ... even rather amusing, to see Caucasians discriminated against here."However, Dunham was not from Hawaii with roots in Kansas and Washington state. Dunham's mother was a former bank VP from Seattle who had moved down the scale to an hourly-wage bank teller at the time of Obama's birth. However, in 1961, they were still to be considered amongst Hawaii's middle class caucasian populace -- and an illegitimate birth relegated one to a different status -- that of the low-class "opala haole" (white trash). This might have motivated Ann Dunham's actions in 1971 to spare her parents and her child any future disgrace as her mother had now risen again to be a VP for the Bank of Hawaii -- and Obama had entered into the "haole" privileged class school of Punahou as "Barry Dunham." The name "Dunham" would be his mother's maiden name which would have been shown on his birth certificate if he was illegitimate at the time of enrollment. AFTER he was enrolled, was when Dunham and Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 to change his name to "Barack Hussein Obama.")

  The marriage was a sham from the start. This is why the birth announcement in the Advertiser showed one address for the couple (6085 Kalanianaole Highway), but Obama Sr. was shown as residing at another address (625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki). This is why Ann Dunham lived apart from Obama Sr. almost immediately from Aug 1961 when she may have gone to Washington state to see her friends -- and enrolled in the University of Washington in the Autumn semester of 1961 and only returned to Hawaii when Obama was headed to Harvard in Jun 1962 -- leaving within the month. In fact, everything was a sham. We have previously hypothesized that the relationship between Obama and Dunham was in the end only a financial arrangement while providing Ann Dunham a modicum of respectability without having to endure the shame of an illegitimate birth. This might explain the confusing and conflicting comments related by her old Washington school friends of conversations with Ann Dunham in 1961 about Obama going back to Kenya and their starting a new life there -- when Obama would not leave until 1965. It was all a cover story to mask the fact of illegitimacy.
  
  There are two possibilities to why Obama was entered into Punahou School as "Barry Dunham":
  
  
  • (a). After her 1964 divorce, Ann Dunham legally changed Obama's name on his birth certificate to "Barry Dunham" from "Barack Hussein Obama II". This would have been annotated as a legal name change on his birth certificate. The problem is that the Obama story shows that Ann Dunham encouraged him to understand his father -- at least that is the story. As such, there would not be any of the animosity that would cause her to change Obama's name for "Barack Hussein Obama II." (This is the type of animosity that Ruth Niesand exhibited when she changed the names of her two children by Obama Sr. to their step-father's name -- and asked Obama why his mother had not done the same.) Thus we discard this possibility.
    
    Considering that schools are bureaucracies that operate under strict rules -- the enrollment would be a major issue. The name enrolled under is what is on the birth certificate. Thus we conclude that Obama entered into Punahou School as "Barry Dunham" because this was his MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME and he was an illegitimate child without a father.
    
    

    SITE NOTE: This however conflicts with a photo showing him attending Noelani School in 1987 as "Barry Obama." IF Obama was enrolled into the Noelani School kindergarten in 1967 as "Barry Obama", that would INFER that "Barack Hussein Obama II" was on his original birth certificate. However, the only proof of his using this name, is the back of a photo on which a parent had written the names of the children. There are no records. This cannot be proven. On the other hand, he may have been registered as "Barry Dunham" -- using his mother's maiden name -- but as Obama was trained at a early age that his name was "Barry Obama" and this is what he told his classmates. At the age of 6, this is not an important concern to kindergarten teachers especially in Hawaii with its tradition of "hanai" births -- illegitimate children raised without stigma as part of the family.)

  • (b). If Obama was illegitimate without having a father on his birth certificate, his llegitimacy would have been revealed on his enrollment into Punahou -- and we believe the Dunham-Obama reunion was to correct the matter after the fact on his birth certificate. "Barry Dunham" is what would have been shown on his birth certificate. In 1971, Obama Sr. returned to Hawaii to legally enter his name onto Obama's birth certificate. This action to enter Obama legally as the birth father was to cover everyone's tracks -- including the perjury of Ann Dunham on her divorce paperwork. This was the significant problem that required BOTH Ann Dunham and Obama Sr. to be present in Hawaii at the same time. After 1971, Obama's birth certificate bore Obama Sr.'s name and his name was legally changed to Barack Hussein Obama II. (SITE NOTE: Remember that though Obama Jr. was noted on the 1964 divorce decree as "Barack Hussein Obama II" and by Obama Sr.'s signing the divorce decree, he accepted paternity. However, we believe that there was no legal marriage and if Ann Dunham had tried at the time to use the divorce decree to input the name of the "fatherless child" on the birth certificate, she would immediately have been found to have perjured herself on the divorce decree and Obama Sr. would have been involved in complicity. Therefore, no action was taken in 1964 to change the name. The legal name change input in 1971 would NOT mention anything of the divorce decree -- only the belated correction of Obama Jr.'s name.)
    
    This was a move in 1971 to legally change the birth certificate and mask the illegitimacy. Remember that Obama's grandmother had risen in status since his birth. She was an hourly-wage bank teller when Obama was born in 1961, but was now a VP at the Bank of Hawaii in 1971 -- just as she had been a VP at a bank before in Seattle. The revelation of a fraudulent marriage would have implicated Madelyn Dunham in a money scam at the UH since Obama was declared publicly as the father -- and had received a stipend to reside off-campus as married instead of the dormitories. In addition, the revelation of Obama's illegitimacy would reveal that there was fraud from the inception -- opening Madelyn and Stanley Dunham as co-conspirators to defraud the U.S. government in the initial Obama arrangement for financial gain. Madelyn and Stanley were now much too old to relocate again and start over. Remember that Obama Sr. still had friends in Hawaii -- who were in 1971 rising in political circles (Neil Abercrombie) and business (Pake Zane) -- who remembered his situation. This was a coverup to legitimize Obama's birth records.
    
    The legal action was to include Obama Sr's name on the birth certificate.
    
    
    • Full name of Father: Barack Hussein Obama I
    • Race of Father: African (NOTE: Not "Negroid" as is normally accepted in the pre-Civil Rights days. "African" would have been acceptable in the Black-power days of the 1970s.)
    • Age of Father: 25
    • Birthplace (Island, state or foreign country): Kenya
    • Usual Occupation: Student
    • Kind of Business or Industry: Education.
    • Other data would NOT change: location of the hospital that may or may not be in Hawaii, doctor, etc.
      
      The reason is that prior to 1972, Hawaii allowed "late birth" or "home birth" entries up to one year after a birth. Thus it is possible for a person born in a foreign country to be falsely registered as being born at home in Hawaii as long as one had witnesses. There are all kinds of variations possible, but without seeing the vault copy of the birth certificate, all are simply suppositions.
      
      If Obama was entered into Punahou School because his birth certificate reflected no father and he was born under his mother's maiden name -- then we have a problem. The ramifications of this allegation is that the birth certificate of Obama would have been legally altered in 1971 to reflect the new name change -- "Barack Hussein Obama." What this means is that Obama was born "Barry Dunham" -- using his mother's maiden name. It was only after the legal name change on the birth certificate that he assumed his father's name. As he was already enrolled in Punahou as "Barry Dunham," he continued to use that name until it was changed in Dec 1971. He would then be registered as "Barack Hussein Obama." In later years, the yearbooks listed him as "Barry Obama." At Occidental College in 1979, he assumed the name of "Barack Hussein Obama". All of Obama's carefully constructed myth of a "family" might collapse if this is revealed. The birth certificate would show that he was born illegitimate -- then this would implicate his mother and her family in a scam. This would implicate his grandparents into this coverup -- and also show complicity in this fraud which involved the dual identity of Obama Jr. as both U.S. citizen "Barry Dunham/Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama" for school purposes -- and Indonesian "Barry Soetoro" for tuition assistance purposes.
  
  
  However, a major question would arise as to how would this impact the Obama Presidency? (1) If he were born to Obama Sr. and legally entered on his birth certificate as "Barack Hussein Obama II", he was born a dual citizen -- British and U.S.. Under the reading of Article II Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, he is NOT a "natural born citizen" and ineligible to be President of the United States. (2) If he were born illegitimately in Hawaii with only one U.S. parent, he would be considered a "natural born citizen" -- even if his mother were technically underage by a few months at the time to pass on her citizenship. He would NOT possess dual citizenship -- nor owe allegiance to a foreign government. In this case, he would be qualified to run for President as a "natural born citizen." However, once one gets into this aspect, then we call up his Indonesian citizenship and his possession of an Indonesian passport which he allegedly used at age 20 -- or perhaps beyond -- to go to Pakistan and Indonesia. This would have made him a "naturalized citizen" and therefore ineligible to run for the Presidency.
  
  
• (2) The senior Dunhams (Madelyn and Stanley Dunham) were going to adopt Obama Jr. THIS IS POSSIBLE BUT NOT LOGICAL. Obama Sr. testified that he was the birth father and agreed to the adoption; and Ann Dunham agreed to the adoption as the birth mother. Obama could be legally adopted by Madelyn and Stanley Dunham to oversee Obama's education in Hawaii -- as well as claim Obama as a dependent for tax purposes. (NOTE: This is a paper trail with the Internal Revenue Service that the mainstream media has refused to follow up on. However, we see no tax advantage as legal guardians they would have been allowed to deduct Obama's support on their tax returns.)
  
  

  SITE NOTE: We do NOT hold to this theory because (a). Obama was enrolled in the Punahou School as "Barry Dunham" BEFORE the alleged adoption took place. This name would have been his mother's maiden name. The senior Dunham's name was not used. (b). However, when he graduated from Punahou School, he started using "Barry Obama" or "Barack Hussein Obama" at Occidental College. We believe his name was legally changed to return to "Barack Hussein Obama" AFTER he entered Punahou School. In Dec 1971 he started using "Barry Obama/Barack Hussein Obama." He would return to using "Barack Hussein Obama" at Occidental College. (NOTE: One theory is that he was legitimately born and his birth certificate name stated "Barack Hussein Obama II" and corroborated by the 1964 divorce paperwork. However, we believe that Ann Dunham perjured herself when filing the divorce decree as no legal marriage took place and Obama Jr. was born illegitimate. But again this is simply unprovable without his birth certificate (vault copy).)

  It is assumed that the adoption by Lolo Soetoro in INDONESIA was not binding in Hawaii. We are reasonably certain the adoption took place in Indonesia because Obama Jr. was registered in the 5th Grade at Punahou School as "Barry Dunham" -- NOT Barry Soetoro. Remember that at that time the U.S. did not recognize dual citizenships with Indonesia. Therefore, Obama for the senior Dunhams' adoption purposes in the U.S. would have been considered a U.S. citizen. Without seeing the original birth certificate, this is impossible to prove. The name change to "Barry Dunham" would be annotated on the birth certificate as a legal name change.
  
  The adoption of Lolo Soetoro gave Barack Obama Indonesian citizenship, but the U.S. did not recognize the Indonesian dual citizenship at the time -- so Obama was only legally a U.S. citizen because minor's citizenship status is NOT affected by the actions of adults or legal guardians. The Indonesian adoption not considered valid in America...though Obama did possess an Indonesian passport which he retained and renewed. (This cannot be proved.) We do NOT hold much credence in this adoption theory.
  
  Critics allege that Barry Soetoro was adopted by Madelyn Payne Dunham & Stanley Armour Dunham because Obama was actually illegitimate -- and there was never any marriage. They did this to legitimize Obama. WE DO NOT HOLD TO THIS THEORY. In Jan 2009, the divorce paperwork of Ann Dunham-Barack Obama Sr. was uncovered and released. This put to bed any theories that there was no marriage -- because the divorce paperwork makes that a moot point. This just reinforced the question: Why would an adoption be necessary? Normally legal guardianship would have been sufficient to handle Obama's education, health care and other problems for his entry into Punahou. Obama was already attending Punahou in the 5th grade by the time Dec 1971 rolled around so the legal guardianship vested in Madelyn and Stanley Dunham was sufficient. If Obama was illegitimate, this would have been revealed upon his enrollment into Punahou. This is because at the time, the vault copy of the CERTIFICATE of Live Birth (vault copy of Birth Certificate) was the only document used in Hawaii. Though Obama might have been revealed as illegitimate in initial registration, there is no requirement on school records to annotate this fact. It would have remained hidden -- though it would crop up the next time he had to produce his birth certificate. Adoption seems very radical approach to resolve this problem, especially if there were simply school problems involved. A legal guardianship should suffice.
  
  According to critics of Obama, the second adoption was a little "dicey" -- the first being by Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia -- especially since Ann Dunham was still married to Lolo Soetoro. It is alleged that Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro asked Barack Hussein Obama Sr to fly in from Kenya in 1971 and testify that he was in fact the birth father. Obama Sr would have to have signed the paperwork for the adoption, along with Ann Dunham. Again this is all pure speculation without proof. The bank vault copy of Obama's birth certificate is required to show a legal change in name, but of course, Obama refuses to show the document.
  
  However, we must repeat that we still see NO advantage to the adoption of Barack Obama by Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.
  
  The question arises as to how this would impact on the Obama Presidency? The adoption would not change any status. HOWEVER, the next question is when did Obama Jr. LEGALLY CHANGE HIS NAME TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AGAIN? If Obama did NOT change his name legally, he would have perjured himself on filling out legal forms for become a lawyer and other jobs. Under this scenario of the senior Dunham's adopting Obama, It is assumed that somewhere at Occidental College he would have legally changed his name to "Barack Hussein Obama." Thus there would be no impact to the Presidency -- besides the original question of being a dual citizen if he were born to Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham and therefore ineligible for President as not being a "natural born citizen."
  
  The Dunham-Soetoro divorce In Nov 1980 decree recognizes Barry Soetoro as being part of the Soetoro family unit -- and some consider this as "proof" that he was adopted. It is also proof that he was NOT adopted in 1971 by the senior Dunhams as some allege. Though it does not mention Obama by name, it states that the marriage has one child below 18 and one child above 18 "but still dependent on the parties for education." This recognizes Barry Soetoro as being part of the family unit -- and some consider this as "proof" that he was adopted. It is also proof that he was NOT adopted in 1971 by the senior Dunhams. He would NOT be a part of the Soetoro family unit in 1980 if adopted by the senior Dunhams in 1971.
  
  
  
  
  

Photo in Hawaii in 1970 with sister Maya, mother and grandfather


Photo in Hawaii in 1970s with sister Maya, mother and grandfather