The "new" birther tactic, Obama's SSN

[KoihimeNakamura]

And it's metapedia too.

 

[Sledge]

That's what makes it so good. MaGZ could easily have registered an account there and typed whatever he wanted, but he couldn't even be bothered to do that.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

That's what makes it so good. MaGZ could easily have registered an account there and typed whatever he wanted, but he couldn't even be bothered to do that.

MaGZ probably owns the site.

 

[Hershele Ostropoler]

I know this for a fact because my older sisters and I have consecutive numbers. My mom applied for everyone at the same time.

I demand proof you're not triplets.

No, but an amazing coincidence has him attending Columbia University, which is decidedly in the vicinity. Perhaps Columbia University was the first entity that required him to have an SSN, so he went to the nearest office at that point and applied for one.

I'm fairly sure there was a Social Security office closer to Morningside Heights than Connecticut; my guess at the time would be the Financial District or around Madison Square Park, and nowadays there's an office in Harlem (the building is '90s vintage, but I don't know what was on the site before that).

 

[BazBear]

You are assuming that she applied for a SSN right after he was born. That is the way they do it nowadays, but it is not necessarily the way things were done back then.

I know this for a fact because my older sisters and I have consecutive numbers. My mom applied for everyone at the same time.

Yep, that was the case back then. I applied for my SSN in 1980 (at age 15) because, of all things, I needed one for a Massachusetts Firearms ID card.

 

[triforcharity]

Barack Obama Sr. was not living in Connecticut in the mid 1970's when his son's SS number was issued. Obama Sr. moved back to Kenya in 1965.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr.

What if, I dunno, you don't KNOW where his SSN was issued from?

As in, they are researching the WRONG ssn?

Holy ****, what a concept.

 

[triforcharity]

I demand proof you're not triplets.


I'm fairly sure there was a Social Security office closer to Morningside Heights than Connecticut; my guess at the time would be the Financial District or around Madison Square Park, and nowadays there's an office in Harlem (the building is '90s vintage, but I don't know what was on the site before that).

'90s is considered Vintage? Holy Jumpin Jesus on a pogostick, i'm old!

 

[grmcdorman]

'90s is considered Vintage? Holy Jumpin Jesus on a pogostick, i'm old!

In this usage - 'year vintage' - it doesn't mean old, it means 'of that period'. Thus, I could say, for example, that Obama's presidency is of 21st century vintage.

 

[triforcharity]

In this usage - 'year vintage' - it doesn't mean old, it means 'of that period'. Thus, I could say, for example, that Obama's presidency is of 21st century vintage.

Thank God, there for a moment, I thought that I was getting old!!

 

[Sledge]

I thought the '90s would be considered old in America.

Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. Oh, yeah. You tear your history down, man! “30 years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!" I have seen it in stories. I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!"