“Can I see your college transcripts that prove your brilliance?”

“No.”

It seems very rational to me that his mother and grandparents might have wanted to claim U.S. birth for a child, with all of the benefits it brings–comparable, I would imagine, to the benefits of being a “Roman Citizen” vs. being a non-citizen, a barbarian, in the Ancient world–as opposed to being a citizen of dirt poor, violence-wracked Kenya.

The real smoking gun would be some more unusual facts…

I’ve always presumed he was born in the USA, for the simple reason that there is purported to be a newspaper notice from HI announcing his birth. There is, literally, no conceivable reason to place such a notice falsely into the papers, unless you believe it’s important to establish “native” birth.

And I am aware of only one occupation where “native” birth is a critical factor… The Presidency.

And given the parental and grandparental attitudes, the notion that the racial attitudes would shift sufficiently in the course of only 50 years to allow The One to get elected is highly improbable. They would never have believed it, much less prepared ahead of time for it.

No, my own suspicion, which seems entirely in following with the mothers’ attitude, is that the long form — and only the long form, lists “Father: Unknown”. That would be substantially embarrassing and still not require a ridiculous leap of reasoning to justify it getting withheld.

He flashes that “smile” all the time, but has anyone ever detected any warmth in his eyes? Does anyone believe that he really cares about the poor, or does he just use them to convince himself of his own superiority?

The question is whether he is his own man, in which case analyzing him is worthwhile, or is he not, in which case we need to figure out who’s calling the shots (*cough* Soros *cough*), in which case we need to analyze him.

If Barky’s not his own man, figuring him out is as pointless as figuring out the psyche of a Shakespearean actor. The question is, who’s writing the script?

No, but it further insight into the provenance of this clown might give us a better idea of what will happen next.

I take that as a given also. The question is whether Ayers played a role in Obama’s going to Columbia in the first place. He certainly played a role in his going to Chicago; that cannot be a coincidence.

Simplest hypothesis: Obama was moving up through a Red farm system. (Occidental has long “enjoyed” a reputation as a hard left college, so that fits the pattern as well.)