Lots of us poor simple folk are not polyglots. Hell, sometimes I have trouble enough with the one language I do know.
The upshot, though, remains that many of us RELY on translators. Nothing new in that.
So, what it comes down to is a pretty obvious question. IS it YOUR contention that the translator screwed up what Mrs. Obama (grandma Obama) SAID?
My contention is that either A: she was old and confused, but caught herself and clarified.
B: she was mistranslated.
C: "Conspiracy!"
Usually saner heads stay away from the conspiracy shit unless there's pretty ******* compelling evidence to delve into such nonsense.
Since I have come to accept that the incumbent was born in Hawaii, I don't have much vested in this thread. Still, I can't help but notice (and man, I have tried) that YOU have "overlooked" another possibility.
She was old, but not confused and didn't catch herself at all, and didn't clarify, but instead went along with the (family) program to deny those crazy birther claims that the future U.S. President was ineligible for that Office. Or maybe you subsume all of that into "C."
What if she wasn't "confused" at all? And what if her "clarification" was actually an effort to cover-up her inadvertent slip of the tongue (whereby she let the truth slip out)?
- She was there at his birth, but she wasn't there.
- And that Ambassador doesn't know what the **** he's talking about.
- And the President's school records don't show that he was an Indonesian citizen of the Islamic faith.
- And the President's U.S. college and law school transcripts ARE all perfectly available and accessible to all. For there's not a chance in the universe that he's attempting to hide anything.
Nothing to see here. Nothing worth even a raised eyebrow. Just apply the label "birfer" and move along. Am I right or am I right?