[CpnHook]

A literary agent's job is to sell an author. Obviously, Miriam Goderich thought Obama would be more salable if Kenyan-born than American-born.

It still strikes me as an odd going-only-halfway measure. Selling an author" means selling books. So A&D pushed the exotic just as to the publisher but not the book-buying public? Maybe so. It's just not a convincing theory.

In any case, the Acton&Dystel bio card is always taken out of context (that being Obama telling the national media in 1990 that he was born in Hawaii) and badly overplayed. Though I suppose I understand the need of those pushing the Kenyan birth narrative to seize on it and not let go: if they didn't have the bio to waive, they'd not have much of anything.

[Fantasywriter]

‘they’d not have much of anything.’

Oh really?

How about for starters the fact that Obama is a pathological liar. When it comes to so notorious and disordered a liar, what makes more sense: to question his various stories, or to buy them hook, line and sinker?

Or do you not admit that Obama lies pretty much every time his lips are moving?

[cynwoody]

In any case, the Acton&Dystel bio card is always taken out of context (that being Obama telling the national media in 1990 that he was born in Hawaii) and badly overplayed.

It's too good to pass up. Especially, that it got corrected just as he was gearing up to run for president.

Miriam Goderich says it was a fact-checking error by her. But the fact remains, she must have got the idea in her head somehow, and Obama failed to set her straight.