Must Read: The Bizarro World Of Barack Obama's Birth Narrative; Real Birth Certificate?

The search for truth in Barack Obama’s sketchy 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father continues with a look into the many discrepancies and oddities in Barack’s birth narrative.  Although not mentioned in Dreams, it could be said this birth narrative officially began in 1960, when Barack’s “mother,” Stanley Ann Dunham, reportedly moved to Hawaii just after graduating from “Mercer Island High School.”  This “little-known secret” wasn’t revealed by Barack until October 26, 2006 at a Democratic rally in Bellevue, WA.

Surprisingly, the 1956-1960 Seattle/Honolulu Polk directories do more or less agree with Barack’s Mercer Island narrative.  (1) The 1956-1959 Seattle Polk directories (with an exception of 1958) lists the Dunhams on Mercer Island.  (2) The March 1960 Seattle Telephone directory lists the Dunhams on Mercer Island.  (3) The 1960-1961 Honolulu Polk directory lists the Dunhams at 6085 Kalanianaole.

But while, according to the Polk directories, it does appear that Stanley and Madeline Dunham left Mercer Island for Honolulu in 1960, it is unknown when Barack’s “mother” specifically left Mercer Island.  Claims vary from Stanley Ann leaving Mercer Island “the day after” or “a few days after” her June 1960 graduation, or even “stay[ing] on the mainland for part of the summer.”

However, the appearance of an “Ann Dunham” in the 1960 Seattle Polk directory certainly raises eyebrows.  A library date stamp of “5-31-61″ is used to estimate the names gathered for the 1960 Seattle Polk directory in late 1960/early 1961 – when Ann was supposed to be in Hawaii canoodling with a Kenyan.

The “Ann Dunham” in the 1960 Seattle Polk directory appears to have been a UW laboratory student residing at Virginia Mason Clinic’s Blackford Hall, located at 1000 Seneca St.  ”Ann Dunham” doesn’t appear in the 1959 or 1961-1962 Seattle Polk directory, and it is unclear if the “R” is an initial for an “Ann R Dunham” or an abbreviation for “room.”

Are “Ann Dunham” and Stanley Ann Dunham the same person?  Janny Scott’s 2011 A Singular Woman does hint that “a short stint” in “nursing” was the “standard female trajectory” for Mercer Island female “teenagers.”  Moreover, “Ann Dunham’s” residence at the Mason Clinic on Seneca St. was barely over a mile from “Mrs Anna Obama’s” address listed in the next year’s 1961-1962 Seattle Polk directory.

But “Ann Dunham” doesn’t appear in any of UW’s 1959, 1960, and 1961 Tyee yearbooks – which listed many nursing programs and sororities.  So, for now, it will be assumed that “Ann Dunham” and Stanley Ann Dunham are, in fact, two different Ann Dunhams who were coincidently attending UW at about the same time in 1960-1961 – and therefore the entire Barack Obama birth narrative hasn’t been destroyed.

Whenever Stanley Ann left Mercer Island, discrepancies and oddities begin appearing in Barack’s birth narrative soon after his “mother” reportedly changed her name from Stanley Ann to “Ann” sometime in the fall of 1960.  Discrepancies/oddities shown in previous articles (here and here) include: (1) conflicting reports about Ann majoring in either mathematics or anthropology, (2) Ann’s apparent impossible University of Hawaii (UH) grade point average of 1.35, (3) family members’ reports of where Obama Sr. lived in Honolulu conflict with the Polk directories, (4) Obama Sr.’s UH transcript mysteriously turned up missing soon after being viewed by Obama “biographer” Sally Jacobs, (5) no one knows concretely when Obama Sr. and Ann were married, (6) evidence shows that Obama Sr. never lived with Ann and Barack Jr. as a family (despite what we were told in Dreams), and (7) evidence that baby Barack never lived with his “mother” in Seattle in 1961-1962.

Nevertheless, despite the many discrepancies/oddities in Barack’s birth narrative, on June 12, 2008, when the debate over Obama’s birth records was beginning to heat up, a simple-looking computer-generated birth certificate for Barack mysteriously appeared in PolitiFact’s e-mail (from the “Obama campaign”) and appeared on the Saul Alinsky-inspired website Daily Kos, whose founder enthusiastically claimed, “[H]ere is Obama’s birth certificate.” [...] Continued @ American Thinker.