posted 01/22/09 11:33 PM | updated 03/19/09 08:46 AM
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Maybe baby Barack didn't live on our Capitol Hill

By jseattle
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According to the Capitol Hill Times, baby Barack Obama lived briefly here on Capitol Hill, Seattle on 13th Ave E.

But according to the Seattle Weekly, tipper Andrew Taylor points out, baby Barack was left behind in Hawaii:

 

Meanwhile, Obama's mother, whose parents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham had moved here from Kansas a decade earlier, left Mercer Island in 1960. But she returned to live in Seattle around 1962, after Barack was born in August 1961, leaving her husband, Kenya-born Barack Sr., and his newborn namesake in Hawaii. She lived on Capitol Hill and enrolled at the University of Washington.

Oddly, when this article was written back in October, SW didn't find it notable that a mother would leave her infant son for 6 months. Seems remarkable. Can it be true?

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mother
While I liked the thought that President Obama may have lived on my street, this report seems more likely. A mother leaving her six-month-old with his grandparents seems more likely to me than a mother bringing a six-month-old baby when she sets out, alone, to a city without family, to attend college.
Comment by Laurie
January 23, 2009
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RE: mother
She went to high school on mercer island, so she must have known people. Not the same thing as family, though.
Comment by k
January 23, 2009
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But wait there's more.....
Charlette had lots more information than she had room for in her Cap Hill Times article. With her permission I'll post it here this weekend.

Case for baby Barack on our Capitol Hill looks solid!
Comment by Andrew Taylor
January 23, 2009
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party pooping
what's the big deal anyway? who cares where baby Obama lived. is this an Obama fanzine or what? stop being Obamarazzi.... ;)
Comment by pffft
January 23, 2009
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RE: party pooping
here here.
Comment by menelaus_22
January 23, 2009
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RE: party pooping
thank you!
Comment by bpm2000
January 23, 2009
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interesting
interesting
Comment by seven
January 23, 2009
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Obama
To: pffft, menelaus & bpm2000, Actually it's not a big deal at all. It's just interseting to some that the new president may have lived in the Cap Hill neighborhood. Don't worry, you'll be OK.
Comment by Cap Man
January 23, 2009
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RE: Obama
News flash Capman, Obama won the election. Lets move on with our lives.
Comment by bpm2000
January 26, 2009
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