[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.

[CpnHook]

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

Which is consistent with my view that no one had reason to pay much attention to the thing before then.

But the fact remains, she must have got the idea in her head somehow,

How about the idea "born of a father from Kenya" (i.e., having a Kenyan heritage) got conflated to "born in Kenya?" as this was all short and simple and not something commanding much scrutiny given the limited audience and purpose?

I know people have a great need to find a furtive, cynical motive in these things. But often the innocuous one is much simpler. Hello, Mr. Occam.