While trolling through my normal rounds of conservative blogs last evening, I ran across a post that reminded me of thoughts I’d had on previous occasions – there is a great deal about the formative years of Barack Obama that we don’t know.  His past has been kept closed from the public by his family, his friends and acquaintances, and his handlers.  Never having been one to subscribe to conspiracy or “birther” theories, I have ignored those doubts while pursuing other lines of reasoning about the man’s governance.

But the article I read yesterday is enlightening, and I share it with Hayride readers in that sense.  I neither endorse nor refute the claims, speculation and analysis, but rather leave the reader to his or her own conclusions as I encourage the consideration of the post and as many of the embedded links as can be stomached.

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