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His conversation with Race Bannon, a member here, in the early 1980's is particularly persuasive. At the time, Bannon is in the Navy, returning to Hawaii from a tour on which his last stop was Mombasa. He runs into Zero in a bar in Hawaii and after telling Zero his last port was Mombasa, Zero responds by explaining to Bannon that he was born in Mombasa.

and from another very reliable source who was living in Hawaii long before Race Bannon...

One evening I was at a party somewhere on Oahu, Hawai'i, between Kailua and Sunset Beach, in what I think must have been the year 1977. A friend whose identity I have forgotten pointed to a teenaged, thin fellow who certainly was Barack Obama and asked me: "Do you know that he is being groomed for the Presidency?". The thought was so preposterous that I rejected it out of hand.