LEGITIMACY AND THE PRESIDENCY

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.):

Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. His father was Leslie Lynch King, Sr., a wool trader and son of prominent banker Charles Henry and Martha King. His mother was the former Dorothy Ayer Gardner. Dorothy separated from King Sr. just sixteen days after her son's birth. She took her son with her to the Oak Park, Illinois home of her sister Tannisse and her husband, Clarence Haskins James. From there she moved to the home of her parents, Levi Addison Gardner and his wife, the former Adele Augusta Ayer, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dorothy and Leslie King divorced in December 1913; she gained full custody of their son. Ford's paternal grandfather Charles Henry King paid child support until shortly before his death in 1930.^[3]

Gerald Ford later said his biological father had a history of hitting his mother.^[4] James M. Cannon, a member of the Ford administration, wrote in a Ford biography that the Kings' separation and divorce were sparked when, a few days after Ford's birth, Leslie King threatened Dorothy with a butcher knife and threatened to kill her, Ford, and Ford's nursemaid. Ford later told confidantes that his father had first hit his mother on their honeymoon for smiling at another man.^[5]

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III...):

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, in Hope, Arkansas.^[14] His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.^[1] Following his birth, in order to study nursing, his mother Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923-1994), traveled to New Orleans, leaving Bill in Hope with grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and operated a small grocery store.^[15] At a time when the Southern United States were racially segregated, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all racial groups.^[15] In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and shortly thereafter married Roger Clinton, who together with his brother owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas.^[15] The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950.

Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy (as he was known then) turned fourteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.^[15] Clinton says he remembers his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and, at times, his half-brother Roger, Jr. Clinton intervened multiple times with the threat of violence in order to protect them.^[15][16]

Barack Hussein Obama II:

Barack Obama was [PURPORTEDLY] born at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States,^[6] to Stanley Ann Dunham,^[7] an American of mainly English descent from Wichita, Kansas,^[8][9][10] and [PURPORTEDLY] Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya.

Obama's parents [PURPORTEDLY] met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.^[11][12]

The couple married on February 2, 1961 [SHE WAS 3 MONTHS PREGNANT AT THE TIME],^[13] and Barack was born later that year. [OBAMA SENIOR WAS MARRIED AT THE TIME.]

His parents separated when he was two years old and they divorced in 1964.^[12] Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.^[14]

ALL THREE MEN HAD FATHERS WHO WERE ABSENT.

FORD AND CLINTON CHANGED THEIR NAMES AND NEITHER IDENTIFIED WITH THEIR REAL FATHER.

MAKES SENSE.

BUT BARACK KEPT THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO ABANDONED HIM AND HIS MOTHER. AND BARACK EVEN MADE OBAMA SENIOR'S DREAMS THE TITLE OF HIS MEMOIR.

I HAVE ALWAYS FOUND THIS ODD.

ESPECIALLY SINCE BARACK WAS REFERRED TO AS BARRY SOETORO FOR YEARS WHILE GROWING UP IN INDONESIA.

• IS BARACK'S FATHER REALLY BARACK?
• IS HIS REAL/LEGAL LAST NAME REALLY OBAMA AND NOT SOETORO?
• WAS HIS FATHER REALLY OBAMA SENIOR AND NOT FRANK DAVIS?

FOR OBAMA TO FIT THE FORD/CLINTON PATTERN HE'D HAVE TO HAVE KEPT THE NAME SOETORO. OR TAKEN THE NAME DUNHAM.

IT SEEMS ODD TO ME HE DIDN'T; IT STICKS OUT; IT DOESN'T ADD UP.