Today's WND birth certificate related scandal: Obama's father's birthdate is wrong.
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Early in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," President Barack Obama makes this innocuous remark about his father: "In 1959, at the age of 23, he arrived at the University of Hawaii as that institution's first African student."
Obama got the book contract for "Dreams" while he was still at Harvard Law School. He may have pulled Obama Sr.'s biographical data from his Harvard documents, all of which list him as being born in 1936 and thus 23 when he arrived in Hawaii.
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Today, even Wikipedia gives Obama Sr. a 1936 birthdate and a Hawaii arrival age of 23. Yet, like so much of the history told about our president, it is flat-out wrong.
Obama Sr. was born on June 18, 1934. He arrived in Hawaii as a 25-year-old. Contrary to what the birth certificate reports, he was 27 when Obama II was born.
This information about Obama Sr.'s real age did not come to light until his INS documents were made public by the Arizona Independent.
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Researcher Don Wilkie argues that it is not an uncommon practice for foreign students to start recalculating their age when faced with the prospect of going home.
Read more: BHO Sr.'s revealing birth-date switch
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.vi ... z1RRP5eolfHe goes on to say that the real question, of course, is even if Obama Sr was lying about his age for school loan purposes, why would he lie on his son's birth certificate. He says that Obama supporters would suggest that perhaps Obama's mother was the one who gave the birth date information for the certificate and that Obama Sr. had been lying to her all along, so she didn't realize she was giving incorrect information. From there, he starts in on a rant about how Obama supporters always have some kind of speculative reason to explain away anomalies, but unlike the heroic birthers who are "willing to put their hypotheses on the table and test them," Obama's defenders "shy from the challenge."
He also speculates that Obama's supporters may assume that some "friendly forger" created the birth certificate and got the date wrong by mistake. (uh, what?)
I wonder what he'll come up with next...