As I reported earlier, the "birthers" who claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya making him ineligible to be President, are trying a new tack, claiming that the President's Social Security number must be a fake since it is a number that was being assigned at the time to people living in Connecticut even though Barack Obama was living in Hawaii at the time he took his first job. They managed to get questions asked about this asked at a White House press briefing.
The Associated Content blog gives a possible explanation of the Social Security number, that Barack Obama was living not in Hawaii but in Indonesia at the time the Social Security number was assigned and that Obama obtained it by mail, using the return address of his father, who was divorced from his mother and living in Connecticut at the time. I think a simpler and more likely explanation is that Obama obtained his Social Security number while visiting his father in Connecticut. It would have been easier to have obtained that Social Security number by walking into an office while back in the U.S. on a visit rather than obtaining it while oveseas. Others who read this blog might have more knowledge of the process of issuing Social Security numbers to American citizens who were residing overseas back in that era. I suppose it is done now when a birth is registered with a U.S. embassy oveseas but there would have been a different process back in the 1970s.
The Associated Content blog gives a possible explanation of the Social Security number, that Barack Obama was living not in Hawaii but in Indonesia at the time the Social Security number was assigned and that Obama obtained it by mail, using the return address of his father, who was divorced from his mother and living in Connecticut at the time. I think a simpler and more likely explanation is that Obama obtained his Social Security number while visiting his father in Connecticut. It would have been easier to have obtained that Social Security number by walking into an office while back in the U.S. on a visit rather than obtaining it while oveseas. Others who read this blog might have more knowledge of the process of issuing Social Security numbers to American citizens who were residing overseas back in that era. I suppose it is done now when a birth is registered with a U.S. embassy oveseas but there would have been a different process back in the 1970s.
5 comments:
You know, I don't personally care much for Obama and won't cry a single tear if he isn't re-elected, but these birther morons need to get a new hobby.
In short, go back to spreading rumors about Area 51 and alien abductions. You were obviously more successful with that than you will ever be with politics.
In short, get a life! The man is president, and will remain president at least until the next election.
Racism can be patently obvious to some and not others.
Amazing isn't it?
Yeah America is so racist that it elected a black President. Makes as much sense as the birthers.
Racism is alive and doing well. This story should be in the National Enquirer. More important issues exist such as a lack of a SSA Trust Fund.
I still want to know how they got the number. However, either parent could have applied for an SSN for the President when he was under 18. And, in the 60's, no proofs were required. It's possible the President had no number until he entered the University or Law School. Both locations were on the East Coast. In any event, it doesn't prove anything one way or another. FYI.
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