The Washington Post is not sloppy; it is dishonest. Forget Kenya or Hawaii as Barack Obama's birthplace. The issue is that he was mentored by a communist named Frank Marshall Davis, who taught him that blacks had a "reason to hate" and that Christianity was the white man's religion. Davis essentially raised Obama in Hawaii for seven years of his young life, when he was smoking dope in the "Choom Gang" and learning how to be a revolutionary. That's why Obama left Hawaii to admittedly hang out with "Marxist professors." Davis had taught him well.
The rest is history, except that the Post and other liberal media have sanitized history in order to conceal the Marxist nature of Obama's proposed "fundamental transformation" of America.
In Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, Davis was "Frank," a mysterious figure with only a first name who had served as his mentor. Later, the identity of "Frank" was shown to be Davis by Trevor Loudon and Accuracy in Media. Davis had a 600-page FBI file and had been on the FBI's Security Index for 19 years. That was the smoking gun in Obama's life story, not the place where he was born. His birthplace was always a secondary issue.