[rdb3]

The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.

[tsowellfan]

The last part is exactly what I think happened.

[sten]

I’m pretty sure we do not deliberately re-issue ssnos of the recently departed

the number was issued to a gentleman born in 1890 that died in 1976

of course, grandma-the-0ne worked in an office where the ssnos flowed through. easy enough to grab one for Barry since he needs one for his choom-paying job

[DrC]

“Snopes concludes that “the most likely explanation” is a “simple clerical or typographical error.” Obama, they contend, lived in the Hawaii zip code of 96814, while the zip code for Danbury, CT is 06814.”

I recently looked up some relatives in the newly released 1940 Census records. Ancestry.com has digitized these to make them more easily searchable. I found several instances (among only a half dozen people checked) of errors in transcribing the handwritten entries, e.g., “Merrill” became “M. Enile” “Sara” became “Cora” etc.

Kapiolani Blvd. does run through Zip code 96814. Mis-reading a “9” as a “0” doesn’t seem like all that much of a stretch to me. Given such a readily available explanation, the principle of Occam’s razor suggests this may well be the solution to this puzzle.

BHO has a Hawaiian birth certificate:
1) His birth date never would have been published in 2 different papers unless his name appeared on a list of newborns circulated by the vital statistics office to the media. [This doesn’t rule out his having been born elsewhere and having applied for an out-of-hospital BC: my point is, he had a BC].
2) He alludes to his BC in his book etc.
3) The apparently doctored image on the WH Website may have had certain fields altered, etc. but in light of the contemporaneous newspaper announcements, it seems pretty implausible that the entire document was fabricated wholesale.
Therefore, there was no need to purchase a fraudulent SSN.

[Erik Latranyi]

My two sons were born at the same hospital.

They have two totally different SS starting sequences.

One is 176, the other is 207.

This is a stupid line of reasoning.

[ILS21R]

"Gilbert's theory is that the SSN problem is related to the question of Obama's birth certificate, which is required to get a SSN. Lacking a valid birth certificate, Obama was forced to buy an SSN so he could get his first job at the Baskin Robbins in 1977. In this theory, Obama was sold an SSN that was Connecticut-based so it couldn't be traced back to the Hawaii office."

This is exactly what happened.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Why are people making up rediculous excuses for this bum. Let him tell how he came to have a social security number from a place he never lived. Let him show his birth certificate as well. This clown is getting away with murder. He’d be out if I could affect it. He is not elligible to be president.

[Doogle]

...???...and the five other Social Security numbers?

[I_be_tc]

Later

[PowderMonkey]

"Snopes then repeats the irrelevant detail that Obama would only need to have sent his application in from Connecticut, but how or why the 16-year-old Obama could or would have done so is overlooked. Snopes concludes that "the most likely explanation" is a "simple clerical or typographical error."

Nonsense. Social Security numbers are based on information provided on line 16 of Social Security Form 5 (Application for Social Security Card). That's the applicant's mailing address at time of application. The card and new social security number would have been sent to that address.

[Dick Bachert]

bump

[GOPJ]

"Hawaii was and is a corrupt state," Gilbert continues. He was told by retired Honolulu police detectives that in the state bureaucracy, "anything could be purchased, including Social Security numbers." These were real numbers, likely available because the original card holder was dead. The sellers trafficked in SSNs that did not originate in Hawaii. That way, if the person using the phony SSN were ever caught, the crime would be traced back to the issuing state, not the Hawaii office.

Gilbert's theory is that the SSN problem is related to the question of Obama's birth certificate, which is required to get a SSN. Lacking a valid birth certificate, Obama was forced to buy an SSN so he could get his first job at the Baskin Robbins in 1977. In this theory, Obama was sold an SSN that was Connecticut-based so it couldn't be traced back to the Hawaii office.

The real question is who had knowledge of the Hawaiian mob - contacts with them - and the ability to pull this off while Obama was still a young man? I don't think Obama did it - but I do think he knows who got him the fake SS number. Too bad the LA Times is busy taking a class on how to kiss Obama's butt... they might be able to get an answer if they weren't getting their 'tips' from the DNC...