Reply #115: Not much reason to care, but it certainly upsets certain DUers a lot

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That was what my original post (6) in this thread was about. Any mention of details of almost any sort regarding Obama is quickly met by certain very protective DUers, some willing to distort and reframe the discussions to discredit the posters and to send discussions off in a different direction.

This thread is fairly good example of all that happening and leaving most everyone else either confused or certain that someone (me, for example) is really a birther, FREEP, teabagger,... and deserves a pizza! Usually, I find it too much effort to get involved in such things threads, but this time I did it by accident and decided I would try to respond to as much as I could. Did not imagine it would get this much attention.

I regret that I did not put the question about the hospital records in a private message rather than a public post. I was curious what was in the hospital birth records, nothing more, not agenda, just wanted to know.

Obama living in Seattle seems relatively insignificant to me. Sure, he lived around the corner from Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendrix that year, a good trivia question. Most families have things that aren't really discussed and are glossed over in some way, this looks like one of those. We already knew that his father was not present after he left for Harvard; now, we know he probably wasn't present, period; but that doesn't make much difference.

It is strange how almost any mention of Seattle wrt Obama or especially his mother gets a lot of attention. I have always attributed this to Kansas appealing to voters more than Washington state, probably the same reason that his mother and grandmother are portrayed in more-traditional roles while downplaying their careers. After this thread, I suppose I should at least consider the possibility that there could be some link to Seattle that is actually important. With that CT, it is obvious I need some sleep.