There’s also the story that Barak Sr.’s wife was in the Philippines for unknown reasons. She could have been anywhere, even on her way back from Kenya and stopping in Indonsia. The spokesbabe for the HI DOH, Janice Okubo, once made a comment that if one was born in Bali, it’s supposed to say that on his birth certificate. She might have been giving out Obama’s real place of birth. Plus, Tammy Duckworth was quoted in a Honolulu newspaper story that said he was born in Indonesia.
The Bali angle is new to me....
The Duckworth comment was a mistake later retracted by that Newspaper. The comments about the wife in the Philippines is a lose thread that I haven't yet found a way to categorize to my satisfaction. Fred Nerks and I think Mojito Joe (and perhaps others) have mentioned this before, and it just seems like an extra part you might find after you put an engine back in a car. :)
I have to take a few things as demonstrable assumptions, and work from there. I believe Barack shares a bloodline with his Grandfather Stanley because in certain pictures they look almost identical, so I assume that it is a fact he was born either to Stanley or Stanley Ann. I happen to favor the Stanley Ann theory because I believe it has the more supporting evidence.
That being established in my mind, I have to ask myself under what possible circumstances would Stanley Ann be traveling to such a place as Bali, Indonesia, or even Kenya while pregnant with a baby in 1961? The probable answer comes back as not bloody likely. The Cost, the Family Concern, the Reason for going? No sensible reason stands out.
On the other hand, that she would be in North West Washington State in 1961 makes perfect sense. It can be presumed that Grandma Dunham was ashamed of the fact that her Daughter was pregnant by a black man by the fact that she never told her co-workers at the bank that she HAD a grandson. This is not the behavior of a normal grandmother, but it IS the behavior of someone who is ashamed of the fact that her grandson is half black.
So if we accept the notion that Grandma Dunham (and perhaps Grandad too) was ashamed of the fact that their daughter was pregnant by a black man, it is not unreasonable to believe that they urged her to go stay with her Aunt or Uncle in NorthWest Washington.
And so on. THIS narrative sounds plausible, while I cannot think of, nor have I heard of, a good explanation for why and how Stanley could have ended up in any other place but Washington or Hawaii. If anybody comes up with an alternative explanation that makes sense, i'm all ears.