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leftieNanner

(15,916 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 07:32 PM Feb 12

Interesting little item

My husband grew up as a neighbor to a doctor's family in the San Francisco area. That family subsequently moved to Oahu. The doctor was an obstetrician.

We just recently found out that he delivered Barack Obama!

And I don't think he ever traveled to Kenya.

So I have shaken the hand that first touched our amazing President!

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Interesting little item (Original Post) leftieNanner Feb 12 OP
Very nice! biophile Feb 12 #1
Wow, that's cool! progressoid Feb 12 #2
That is Awesome. byronius Feb 12 #3
How special... MiHale Feb 12 #4
Very cool story! Shambala Feb 12 #5
Question.......... DENVERPOPS Feb 12 #6
Unfortunately he had passed away. leftieNanner Feb 12 #9
Too bad they didn't interview him when the 🍑💩🤡 lied and said he was born in Africa. kimbutgar Feb 12 #7
Sadly, he had passed away. leftieNanner Feb 12 #10
Fantastic! MLAA Feb 12 #8
I have that same "relationship" to Bill Gates through my mom's side - TBF Feb 12 #13
I'd be delighted to attend either family reunion! MLAA Feb 12 #19
WOW!! ailsagirl Feb 12 #11
Wow! What a great story! lucca18 Feb 12 #12
Wow! Awesome!! And I thought I was cool because I got to shake hands with Obama wordstroken Feb 12 #14
Ooh. I'm jealous! Nt leftieNanner Feb 12 #15
Oh but your story is so much more interesting, exiting, and unique. wordstroken Feb 12 #16
leftieNanner...... Upthevibe Feb 12 #17
Great story. How cool! mountain grammy Feb 12 #18
The Orange Idiot thinks that Hawaii is in the Gulf of America... Sancho Feb 13 #20
2 cool stories in this thread! 3catwoman3 Feb 13 #21
So did the doctor deliver Obama in Honolulu? LogDog75 Feb 13 #22
Yes, that's correct. Nt leftieNanner Feb 13 #23
Thanks, LogDog75 Feb 13 #24
Good for you! leftieNanner Feb 13 #25
Amazing story! This reminds me... Dem4life1970 Feb 13 #26

DENVERPOPS

(11,601 posts)
6. Question..........
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 08:30 PM
Feb 12

So, why didn't this doctor come forward, saying this, when Obama was being lied about for years by Trump and the RepubliCONs for not being born in the U.S......?????????????

Is he a MAGA??????????????????

Maybe because he is an older doctor, and most older generation Dr.'s were devout Republicans ?????????

kimbutgar

(24,680 posts)
7. Too bad they didn't interview him when the 🍑💩🤡 lied and said he was born in Africa.
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 08:31 PM
Feb 12

I was so pissed when he did that and never liked him.

But how awesome to know the doctor.

I live and grew up in the same city and wish he would have spoken out then!

MLAA

(19,060 posts)
8. Fantastic!
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 09:04 PM
Feb 12

Here’s my tidbit. President Obama and I are cousins. We share the same 12 or 13th great grandfather on our moms’s side. An English military man who came to the US, if memory serves it was to Sturbridge MA. I need to look it up again. Somewhere I have the family tree outlining both our path’s to this common ancestor.

TBF

(35,069 posts)
13. I have that same "relationship" to Bill Gates through my mom's side -
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 10:12 PM
Feb 12

we are the same generation, but you have to go back 13 generations to get to the common ancestor who come over in the 1620's!

wordstroken

(935 posts)
14. Wow! Awesome!! And I thought I was cool because I got to shake hands with Obama
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 10:39 PM
Feb 12

early in his campaign when he spoke in Ybor City, FL, to a smallish crowd, and got an autographed copy of his book.

wordstroken

(935 posts)
16. Oh but your story is so much more interesting, exiting, and unique.
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 11:12 PM
Feb 12

My story leans more towards Ho-hum boring.

Sancho

(9,125 posts)
20. The Orange Idiot thinks that Hawaii is in the Gulf of America...
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 03:49 PM
Feb 13

...and Greenland grows pineapples.

Thank goodness USAID must have been sending doctors to Oahu to deliver a great President!!

LogDog75

(368 posts)
22. So did the doctor deliver Obama in Honolulu?
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 05:44 PM
Feb 13

Seeing as Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961, the doctor would have had to have been in Hawaii at that time. Is this correct?

LogDog75

(368 posts)
24. Thanks,
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 06:03 PM
Feb 13

I have a nasty little habit of when something doesn't jibe or something is left out I ask questions about it. Many times, like this time, it's easily corrected.

I was in the AF for 28 years and I heard a lot of BS stories. Early in my AF enlisted career is when I started developing my internal BS detector. It wasn't just about the outlandish claims people made about themselves but also when they, both officers and enlisted, start outright lying to make themselves look goo that I would question them. Sometimes it was privately or during a meeting. I wasn't obnoxious but I would ask a question in a tone that was simply asking them to explain and then I'd sit back and watch them squirm.

I know a lot of people, especially republicans, who don't like it when I question them. How dare I question their integrity (as if they had any) by challenging what they say. I know I make them uncomfortable when they're spreading misinformation and that only entertains me more.

Dem4life1970

(760 posts)
26. Amazing story! This reminds me...
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 07:10 PM
Feb 13

... Has anyone seen the birth certificate of the current President? Some people are saying that he was born in Russia. His current wife is from Slovenia.

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