You are right, they simply make up things to make for a better story for whomever they happen to be addressing.
Remember how Barack Sr. and Stanley got together after the Selma march ... AFTER Jr. was born!?
Hey wasn’t Barack Sr. in Cambodia during Christmas in the year of the Selma march?
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Uh, no, that was John Kerry, in Selma, er, I mean Cambodia...with Stanley.
( My head is spinning)
Another early lie. Obama claimed his father Obama Sr. was part of the Kennedy airlift to the US for a university education to ingratiate himself to the Kennedys, but in fact his father was part of the Mboya Kenyan airlift in 1959 when Eisenhower was president. The Obamas can lie from any position.