I see it differently, although as David mentioned above, it is not that huge of a thing one way or another in the larger scheme of parenthood.
But - consider that no one “remembers” or at least says anything about 0mugabe’s years in Occidental, Columbia (whichever one it was) or Harvard. Dead, eerie silence, other than that Drew fellow who of course the MSM never touched. And in Mercer, far fewer people to have to quieten. I think it would be easy to quiet a few handfuls of people, compared to the very large number of people who know all manner of highly incriminating stuff about 0mugabe and say naught. Doesn’t that make sense?
Plus - maybe I’m not typical, but I barely remember most people from high school; but then I went to a different school every year.
Well I gave my personal anecdote. There was a girl in our HS who missed much of her senior yr. Gossip? You better believe it! And even now, all these yrs later, I can tell you her name, first and last. [She had a name that sounded so much like a black girl, bless her heart, but she was a redhead covered w freckles.]
If today her out-of-wedlock child became the POTUS, there are so many of us who would remember her story. If the school and/or state tried to pull a fast one, and portray the offspring as from a traditional marriage [for instance] we would speak up. If no one listened, at the very least we would post on blogs and other online venues. The truth would come out.
The idea that SAD disappeared for her entire senior yr from an island community w but a single HS, and no one gossiped is beyond bizarre. If it had happened, they would have talked. That is the way it is at that age.
Nor do I buy the idea that every single one of them could have been silenced. That is an example of making a conspiracy so big and so crazy, it gives the whole eligibility community a bad name. Obama’s people are thugs but they don’t have superpowers. He can’t shut every member of an island community up; he’s just not that god-like.
It’s pretty difficult to remember a girl who wasn’t there...but we aren’t asking for much, are we? Just show us the pretty pictures on a page, A FULL PAGE:
http://seattlest.com/2008/01/30/obamas_mixed_an.php
They handle a number of books, but at no time do we see what year the books are from, nor do we see her face on a full page of any book.
NOTE THE BEGINNING. SHE SPENT ONE YEAR IN SEATTLE AND TWO YEARS AT MERCER ISLAND. CLASS OF 1960 GRADUATED IN 1960. CLASSES COMMENCED AT MERCER IN 1956. WHERE WAS SHE AFTER 1958?