Why the Media Refuse to Talk About Obama’s Connecticut Social Security Number

In a different era, the grudging admission that follows would have sent serious reporters scurrying to their local Social Security office. Wrote Snopes.com in seeming wonder, “Why Barack Obama’s Social Security card application might have included a Connecticut mailing address is something of a curiosity as he had no known connection to that state at the time.” Unlike Obama’s birth certificate, whose legitimacy may never be certified, Obama has inarguably been using an SSN that originated in Connecticut. This SSN is at least a “curiosity” and quite possibly a fraud. Reporters should have been all over this scandal in the making. They were not.