Posted on 01/23/2009 12:08:54 PM PST by Corazon
When Barack Hussein Obama places his hand on the Bible today to take the oath of office as 44th president of the United States, Barbara Nelson of Kenmore will undoubtedly think back to the day he was born. It was Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu.
“I may be the only person left who specifically remembers his birth. His parents are gone, his grandmother is gone, the obstetrician who delivered him is gone,” said Nelson, referring to Dr. Rodney T. West, who died in February at the age of 98. Here’s the story: Nelson was having dinner at the Outrigger Canoe Club on Waikiki Beach with Dr. West, the father of her college friend, Jo-Anne. Making conversation, Nelson turned to Dr. West and said: “‘So, tell me something interesting that happened this week,’” she recalls.
His response: “Well, today, Stanley had a baby. Now that’s something to write home about.”
The new mother was Stanley (later referred to by her middle name of Ann) Dunham, and the baby was Barack Hussein Obama.
“I penned the name on a napkin, and I did write home about it,” said Nelson, knowing that her father, Stanley A. Czurles, director of the Art Education Department at Buffalo State College, would be interested in the “Stanley” connection.
She also remembers Dr. West mentioning that the baby’s father was the first black student at the University of Hawaii and how taken he was by the baby’s name.
“I remember Dr. West saying ‘Barack Hussein Obama, now that’s a musical name,’” said Nelson, who grew up in Kenmore and went to Hawaii in 1959 to be in Jo-Anne’s wedding party. When Nelson was offered a job as a newspaper reporter and photographer......
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yep, now I am really convinced Obama is not a natural born citizen.
This lady was a big mistake. Confucious say “never go overboard, you will prove you are liar”. LOL
could you ping me on this please
She thinks she is the only one and yet those in his own family remember him born in Kenya.
Then on the other hand he won’t show the birth certificate and yes it does seem very strange as to why she would go to his birth being who she is.
Something is fishy about all of this article and why all of a sudden did the paper feel the need to print this.
Does Kenmore also make “tools”?
“I may be the only person left who specifically remembers his birth.
Liar. Everyone knows Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.
Or was it The Mombasa Hospital in Kenya????
LOL
was she the one who taught him that there are 57 states too.
Either she has made all this up looking for fame or the paper is trying to convince people that obama is legit for the office.
Only one thing will prove it to me and that is when obama stops fighting to not show the certificate and show it .
Exactly! This is pure BS.
So, let based on the information provided, let me see if I understand it.
1. Dr West delivered at least 5,000 Babies
2. Dr West retired in December 1956 he retired from medical practice
3. In Aug 1961, he has knowledge of a woman named Stanley, under-aged, who had a baby and that was noteworthy, and he did not do the delivery
4. Nelson even remembers from this dinner with Dr West the baby's name and the hospital name
Total, complete Bravo Sierra
My father was a physician and delivered babies - lots of them. Each precious baby is important, but to a doctor who delivers 1000s, they are not noteworthy. Dr West did not even do this delivery.
So someone help me understand why this retired physician in Honolulu would even be aware of an underage girl giving birth to a mixed race baby (in Hawaii, like that would be unusual) with whom he had no connection, and, would consider it noteworthy??
Again, Bravo Sierra
Her story sounds like something written at gunpoint about Kim Jong Il.
Barry made birds out of paper and they came to life and flew around the room.
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‘HE HELPED SAVE OUR COUNTRY’
Honolulu Advertiser, The (HI) - Sunday, November 11, 2007
Author: Advertiser Final, Dan Nakaso
Pearl Harbor survivor and author finds he’s a popular man these days
The hearing’s gone in Dr. Rodney West ‘s right ear. He’s losing muscle mass in his legs and has to use a wheelchair since falling and breaking his hip after attending ceremonies last Dec. 7 for the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
At age 96, it’s sometimes difficult for West to remember details of things that happened to him just a few hours earlier.
“My memory is not as good as it used to be,” West said.
But when he’s asked about what he did on Dec. 7, 1941, West sits up straight in his wheelchair and his voice drops into a lower register as the pictures in his mind rewind 66 years to the sight of Japanese Zeros strafing the Pacific Fleet, bombs falling from the sky and charred men screaming in West ‘s usually sleepy dispensary on Ford Island.
“They had burns all over,” said West , who was a lieutenant junior grade officer assigned to the dispensary with six other Navy doctors. “You’d pick them up and their skin would come off. It was not a nice thing to see.”
Sixteen years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched America into World War II, the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association estimated it had 40,000 members still alive, said Mal Middlesworth, the group’s national president.
Today, there are only about 5,000 survivors of the attack, including West .
So West transforms into something of a World War II rock star every Wednesday when he sits at a table at the USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center and signs autographs and greets dozens of people who want to shake the hand of someone who not only survived the attack, but treated about 100 wounded sailors and soldiers in a dispensary normally accustomed to dealing with colds and scrapes.
“There were so many” wounded, West said. “We gave them morphine for the pain and treated them with what we had, which was not much.”
West can’t hear his fans’ questions over the din of hundreds of visitors mingling around the USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center’s bookstore, where he signs copies of the eighth edition of his book, “ Honolulu Prepares for Japan’s Attack.”
Many of his admirers are disappointed that they can’t communicate very well with West among the throng of people.
But they’re thrilled when he happily poses for photographs and signs World War II memorabilia of all kinds for anyone who approaches him.
“He’s a hero,” Gina LaRock of Madison, Wis., said after West autographed a photo of the Arizona Memorial that she just purchased. “He helped save our country.”
Many of the dozens of people who surround West each Wednesday are unabashed in their reasons for wanting to meet one of the few remaining Pearl Harbor survivors.
“He’s living history and he’s not going to be around much longer,” said Richard Schellenger of Eugene, Ore., who bought one of West ‘s books for him to sign. “Once he’s gone, he’s gone.”
“He’s part of our history,” said Rich Navarro of Brentwood, Calif. “I’m just so glad that I can bring my kids to see someone who’s an actual Pearl Harbor survivor. There’s not that many left.”
West is working on more pages for an upcoming ninth edition of his book. His appearance at the Arizona visitors center each week helps make the book one of the more popular among all of the titles in the bookstore, said Tony Catekista, one of the store’s sales managers.
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DR . RODNEY T . WEST
Born: Dec. 23, 1910, Wailuku, Maui
Education: Skipped seventh and eighth grades; Honolulu Military Academy, Punahou School, where West played clarinet.
Naval service: Joined Navy Reserve in January 1940, activated Sept. 5, 1941 - March 26, 1946. Resigned from Navy Reserve in 1949 at rank of commander.
Medical career highlights: Delivered 5,000 babies; President, Hawaii Medical Association (1963); Medical Director, Straub Clinic (now Straub Clinic & Hospital) until retirement in 1975; one of the founders and first president of the American College of Physician Executives (1975).
Family: Wife, Mary Ann (Carlisle) West , died 1994; daughter, Jo-Anne Lewis (Kaimuki); sons, Kenneth C. West (Phoenix) and Rodney West Jr. (Spokane, Wash.)
Lives: Kahala Nui senior residence
...
http://www.city-data.com/elec2/06/elec-HONOLULU-HI-06-part1.html
Dr. Rodney T West (Retired), (Zip code: 96815) $200 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 10/23/06
she remembers the date time and obstetrician’s name because the father of a college friend told her all those details over dinner at the club and she wrote it all down to send to her father because his name was stanley too
and someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice
A woman and her son wait for the bus
she remembers the date time and obstetrician’s name because the father of a college friend told her all those details over dinner at the club and she wrote it all down to send to her father because his name was stanley too
and someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice
A woman and her son wait for the bus
I don't know, but her memory seems to be a little off. The doc she claims delivered Little baby Obama retired 5 years before she claims to have talked to him after he delivered her commie friends baby.
And the claim that Obama's daddy was the first black student to ever attend Hawaii university seems a little laughable as well.
Obama fables are starting to sound like fables we hear concerning another famous Muzzie called Mohammad. Miracles happened everywhere he went as well. Even trees and rocks talked when baby Mohammad walked by. ,br> No doubt some trees and rocks are going to come forward and bear witness to confirm Obama's whereabouts at questionable times before long as well...
Uh, just what "other things" would he be delivering?
Seriesly though, Dr. West retired from the practice of medicine in 1956? That's 5 years before BHO was born.
For those of you in Rio Linda
All loose ends must be tied, cut off or sewn within the fabric of deception.
Obama's camp is really sounding ridiculous.
i think this is a great sign...if the BC debacle wasn’t really a problem for Obama, then why would people be trying to make up BS like this?
EXACTLY
This one baby stood out from all the rest out of thousands.
Yea right.
This goes to show how pathetic the media is.
Has the media forgot that the word investigation?
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