A retired
U.S. Postal Service carrier who delivered mail to Tom and Mary
Ayers in a Chicago suburb in the late 1980s and early 1990s and
claims to have met Obama in front of the Ayers home...
Allen Hulton,
who was commended for 39 years of honorable service with the USPS,
has given a sworn affidavit to investigators commissioned by Maricopa
County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio to determine whether Obama is
eligible for Arizona’s 2012 election ballot. Hulton has recorded
about three hours of video interviews with WND.
Hulton says
that in conversations with Mary Ayers while on his route he learned
of the couple’s enthusiasm and support for a black foreign
student. One bright, warm Chicagoland day, he recounts, he met
the student who fit Mary Ayers’ description in front of the
Ayers home in Glen Ellyn, Ill. That young man, Hulton is convinced,
was Barack Obama.
Hulton delivered
mail to the Ayers, who are both deceased, when he was stationed
at the post office in Glen Ellyn, an upper-middle class suburb
25 miles west of downtown Chicago, from late 1986 to 1997. He
was a USPS employee from March 28, 1962, through March 30, 2001...
“It
was a beautiful neighborhood – one of the nicer routes any
of the letter carriers would have liked to have had,” Hulton
recalls. “It had some large and very beautiful homes.”
As WND reported
yesterday, Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers – whom
he dismissed in a 2008 debate as “just a guy who lives in
my neighborhood” – plagued him in the 2008 presidential
campaign and could resurface in this year’s election, as
many questions remain.
Young
Obama
Over a period
of years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hulton estimates he
spoke with Mary Ayers about 18 to 20 times and once to Tom Ayers,
who died in 2007. Mary Ayers died in 2000.
“Sometimes
Mary would be out when I delivered the mail, and we would exchange
a few words on occasion,” he says, recalling that she liked
to talk about her family.
“One
day, Mary came to the door when I came up to the house with the
mail,” he remembers. “After a greeting, she started
enthusiastically talking to me about this young black student
they were helping out, and she referred to him as a foreign student.”
Hulton assumed
that by “helping” the student, Mary Ayers meant she
and her husband were financially supporting the black foreign-exchange
student with his education...
He says
that Mary Ayers told him the student’s name, but that it
was a “strange name” that he could not remember, even
though at the time it sounded African to him.
“I
was taken aback by how enthusiastic she was about him,” Hulton
says. “And I believe she said he was from either Kenya or
Indonesia, and I favor Indonesia in my recollection.”...
About a
year after discussing with Mary Ayers the foreign student she
and her husband were supporting, Hulton recalls meeting a young
black male on the sidewalk in front of the Ayers home.
Hulton describes
the man as being in his early 20s, noting that he was tall, thin,
had a light complexion and that his ears stuck out.
“He
greeted me,” Hulton says. “He was very polite, dressed
nicely, but informally – slacks and a dress shirt –
and he spoke with no accent. Immediately this young black man
entered into conversation with me. He told me he had taken the
train out from Chicago and had come to thank the Ayers family
personally for having helped him with his education.”
Hulton remembers
asking the young man what his plans were for the future.
“He
looked right at me and told me he was going to be president of
the United States,” Hulton says.
“There
was a little bit of a grin on his face when he said it –
he sounded sure of himself, but not arrogant. I know how people
will say things because they have an ambition, but it did not
come across that way,” Hulton says. “It came across
as if this young black male was telling me he was going to be
president, almost as if it were the statement of a scientific
fact that had already been determined, as if his being president
had been already pre-arranged.”
Hulton says
the claim made him speechless.
“I
kind of stuttered a response and said that nowadays anything is
possible. I wished him good luck with his ambition,” he says.
Immediately,
Hulton associated the young black man with the foreign student
Mary Ayers had mentioned to him so enthusiastically about a year
earlier.
“I
remembered the conversation I had with Mary, and I associated
this young man with the foreign student she had discussed with
me, because Mary said they were supporting this foreign student,
and the young black man I met outside the Ayers’ home said
he had come to Glen Ellyn to thank the Ayers in person for helping
him with his education.”
During the
2008 presidential campaign, Hulton observed several news reports
detailing the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, and he
recalled the encounter with the young man in front of Tom and
Mary Ayers’ home.
“The
facial and physical characteristics, as well as candidate Obama’s
voice, matched that of the young black male I met in front of
the Ayers’ home,” Hulton says in the affidavit he signed
Nov. 12, 2011, for Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse investigation.
“I
am positive that the black male I spoke with in front of the Ayers’
house that day was indeed a young Barack Obama.”
