Michelle contradicts Obama nativity story

So much of Barack Obama's past is so murky that we are left to speculate what the truth is and who is lying, confused or simply don't know. For example is Michelle Obama telling the truth about her husband when she said, in 2008:

...that her husband's mother, Ann Dunham, was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president. ... "Barack saw his mother, who was very young and very single when she had him, and he saw her work hard to complete her education and try to raise he and his sister," Michelle Obama said.

This appears to contradict the "official" biography which has his mother, Ann Dunham, married to his father. Barack Obama, Sr. Or Michelle could simple have mis-spoke since Obama's mother and father divorced ... er ... went their separate ways and he was raised by his grandparents including his "typical white" racist grandmother

The official story claims Dunham and Obama, Sr. were married Feb. 2, 1961. The pair separated two years later and they divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.

Michelle's words could simply be campaign rhetoric. Making Obama the son of an unwed mother is considered a plus in Liberal circles. Or it could be the truth. We just don't know because the records are not there.


Obama in his own words:

In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I've never quite had the courage to explore. There's no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride. No families were in attendance; it's not even clear that people back in Kansas were fully informed. Just a small civil ceremony, a justice of the peace. The whole thing seems so fragile in retrospect, so haphazard."

And, at WND they claim

In addition to questions about Dunham's marital status, WND previously uncovered documents strongly suggesting Barack Obama Sr. and Dunham did not live at the address listed in birth announcements in two local papers – 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu.

But WND has confirmed the house at that address was owned and occupied in 1961 by another longtime resident Hawaiian couple. Moreover, throughout the time he was in Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr. maintained his own separate apartment at 625 11th Ave., within walking distance of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he was enrolled for studies in the fall term 1959.

Without further investigation we don't know although it seems odd that a struggling young college student would pay rent on two dwellings at the same time.

What is absolutely fascinating about Obama is how much about him is open to question. He's sort of an international man of mystery who parachuted into the US and got elected President based solely on his oratorical skills without anyone ever giving him the sort of background check that the average person gets to get an entry level job at the average company, or to get a low level security clearance to work at a defense contractor. It's weird and it could end up tragic.