Obama Mama's missing passport

Just as I hypothesized on countless radio talk shows earlier this week, not one press outlet in America found it newsworthy that the original passport for Stanley Ann Dunham, circa 1961, is missing.

What a shock!

The story first broke Sunday evening in WND revealing the State Department could not find records for Barack Obama's mother around the time of his birth. Had they been found, Dunham's foreign travels would have been fully documented – perhaps putting to rest any questions of trips outside the country. But they weren't found, raising suspicions of yet another in a long series of missing documents associated with the life of Barack Obama.

It's been several days since the story broke, but no other news agency even found it curious.

I guess my news instincts are out of whack.

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I guess I am just too cynical.

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According to the story, the State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive  resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "nonvital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965.

Yet, the State Department's own website insists passport records are maintained all the way back to 1925.

Once again, nothing is as it seems when it comes to the life of Barack Obama – the man without a birth certificate, without a birth hospital, without student records, without travel records, without health records, with a Social Security number from a state in which he never resided. On and on it goes. Even the records of his late mother are now disappearing.

Curiously, the documents released by the State Department have offered yet another moniker for the man who would become the president.

He's been known as Barack Obama and Barry Soetoro. But in the 1968 application to renew her 1965 passport, Dunham offered a parenthetical nickname for her son – "Soebarkah."

What did it mean? You might think that alone would be of interest to some in the news media. No dice.

There's more interesting stuff to be found in this Freedom of Information release – despite the missing passport file.

On April 27, 1981, Dunham applied from Jakarta, Indonesia, for a U.S. passport, indicating that she was in Indonesia working on a two-year contract from the Ford Foundation, from January 1981 through December 1982.

At that time, Dunham was working on a microfinance program for the Ford Foundation, which was overseen by Peter Geithner, the father of Timothy Geithner, the current U.S. secretary of the treasury.

Small world?

Do you think any of this will ever be reported elsewhere? How about on a slow news day?

Do you find any of this of interest? Why do you suppose the entire media establishment does not?

Am I crazy or is everyone else in the press asleep at the switch?

I know this is not a smoking gun. I realize this is not the biggest story in the world. But it certainly is one of the most curious stories of the week – especially in light of all that came before it and all the secrecy surrounding Barack Obama's unusual life.

Of all the passports to disappear – who would have thought it? I could have predicted it.

Nevertheless, it's just not news to my colleagues.

In a way they're right – in the same way that "dog bites man" is not news.

I guess it's not exactly a shocker these days if a headline reads, "More documents associated with Barack Obama's life missing!"