Posted on 05/12/2010 8:47:16 AM PDT by curiosity
The origin of modern myths and legends is a side interest of mine, the birther myths among them.
Now I understand why Obama being born in Kenya made it into your belief system, despite it being physically impluasible (requiring around 5 days and five flights, most on propeller planes) and financially impossible (it would have cost about a year of her parents' combined salaries) for Stanley Ann & Obama Sr. to travel there for her to give birth. After all, Obama's Father was from Kenya, so if you are going to make up a myth about Obama being born abroad, what better place than Kenya?
Implausibilty, and even impossiblilty doesn't deter the making of myths if there is a strong emotional reason to believe them, as in this case.
What I don't understand is, of all possible places in Kenya, why make Mombassa the birthplace in your myth? If you look at the map of Kenya, it's on the other end of the country from Obama Sr.'s village, 762 miles away, which would make it a minimum 2 day train ride. Probably longer, since Kenyan trains were very fast in 1961.
I suppose you could argue that there were no hospitals in Obama's village, so they had to travel to a major city. But Nairobi was closer, and more modern.
So why Mombassa? Not only is it completely implausible; I don't see the emotional appeal. Why Mombasssa rather than his father's village? Or why Mombassa rather than Nairobi?
Help me out here, birthers. Why do you reserve this special place for Mombassa in your belief system?
WND and Editor Korir
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=78259
Emails netween Corsi and Korir
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/10/did-michelle-obama-just-confirm-barack.html
Philp Berg represents ditor Korir
http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/11/06/stop-the-pressessammy-korir-confirms-obama-born-in-kenya/
API retains counsel–Philip Berg–for U.S. distribution of taped evidence
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/10/african-press-international-open-letter-to-michelle-obama-from-api-chief-editor/
you can dig further a you please. But wa your point ? Everybody knew what was happening
You just proved nothing that I asked you to prove, I asked for a link that showed Corsi, Berg, and Martin were all taken in by this one man’s scam.
If anything your links proved quite the opposite, this guy was a scammer that no one was taken in by.
I don’t believe you read anyone of the links I sent you. Do some search over them, go to the sources linked in the links.
This is totally pointless. What statement are you trying to make ? That Corsi and Berg, etc. are serious, objective, reliable searchers ? How about Taitz and Smith who idiotically wants you to believe he “lost” his precious BC after being detained ? How can anyone believe he carried his fraud in a suitcase to Santo Domingo ? Can’t you see he is just trying to find a clever way out ?
Sure I read them, did you?
There is nothing in them saying that anyone was scammed by this guy or that they based their efforts purely upon what he was selling.
He may have contacted them but it seems he contacted everyone he could long after they had all ready started investigating.
Personally I bet they ignored him as a government plant or rather a Obamite trying to discredit them.
“personally” doesn’t count
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