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luckycliff1964

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 06:19 PM

such an implausible tale...

So these "birthers" ask us to believe that his mother traveled to Africa when she was great with child, in 1961, to have a baby in a hospital in Kenya?

A college student? How would she have traveled there? By airplane? That would have been very expensive in 1961. Where did she get the money? Or maybe she went on a cruise ship, or a raft?

And why??? Why would she go to Kenya when she was enrolled in college in Hawaii?

Put yourself in this situation.

You're living in HAWAII, and you're going to take off to Africa?

wouldn't you rather relax on the beach? Watch the surfers? Eat pineapple and hang out with all the different cultures there?

you would give all this up, and give up your child's American Citizenship with all the rights and privileges that entails, to fly off to Kenya and have a baby and come back again in time to start school in a week.

GIVE

ME

A

BREAK!!!

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