Posted on 05/21/2012 5:07:53 PM PDT by Starman417
The issue of Barack Obama's birthplace has been simmering for a long time. It has been ridiculed by the left incessantly, as well as by some on the right. The seemingly sensible course is to deny that Obama was born anywhere else but in Hawaii, but as is typical of Obama, nothing is as it initially appears. There are questions that need answers.
Breitbart has disclosed that Obama's literary agent published a booklet that describes a young Barack Obama as being born in Kenya:
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
All too predictably, the media immediately leaped to defend Obama, asserting this was some sort of oversight:
Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists have been foiled again.
Conservative-leaning Breitbart.com on Tuesday published a copy of a promotional booklet from Obama's former literary agency. According to a brief biography in the 1991 booklet, Obama was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii," fueling fire to the idea that the president is not a natural-born American citizen.As New York magazine noted, the article caused a stir in conservative circles, drawing commentary from the Drudge Report and other popular websites.
However, the woman who wrote Obama's biography in the pamphlet said Thursday that she had misidentified Obama's place of birth.
"This was nothing more than a fact-checking error by me -- an agency assistant at the time," Miriam Goderich, who worked for the literary agency Acton & Dystel, told Yahoo News. "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii."
So the left would have us believe that this woman allowed this error to fester for 20 plus years. Saner heads might question why this remained uncorrected all this time. Maybe she didn't know Obama had been elected President? From where did she get the notion that Obama could have been born in Kenya?
But then another "Born in Kenya" account emerges- this one from the AP in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
perhaps Obama has quietly encouraged the birthers because it served to distract from other embarrassing lies - another Elizabeth Warren indian situation.
http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2009/10/26/obama-birthplace-lawyer-submits-suspect-document/23981/
Therefore . . . . . Obambi's grandmother is a stinking liar? I know he threw his "white" grandmother under the bus, so is this Kenyan-born fraud throwing his other grandmother under the bus?
Think about it: OBOZO'S GRANDMOTHER WITNESSED HIS BIRTH IN KENYA!
I didn't say that; his grandmother said that. Granny's a liar?
I know FR is birther territory, but the likelihood there is a conspiracy that includes Obama and officials of the state of Hawaii to present a fraudulent birth certificate isn’t plausible. And while people pick at the evidence that is out there for the Hawaii birth, there isn’t any positive evidence of his birth elsewhere.
They don’t do ‘fact-checking’ on biographies submitted by authors, they just print them.
This woman IS A LIAR
You are not too observant, are you....
there is a bunch of evidence he was born in Kenya, and NONE that he was born in Hawaii (except what appear to be forgeries)
Nice sarcastic swipe at ‘birthers’. Does that make you feel bigger? Saner? More intellectual? Seems to me it makes you an idiot. OK, so he’s born in Hawaii. In that case WHY wait 3 years to produce the BC, and when you do it’s a FORGERY! Why not just produce the real document from the files in Hawaii with the press there and have it reviewed by experts????????? Your contention that he was born in Hawaii is flawed and lacks any support. Exactly what you claim is lacking for a birth anywhere else!
Indeed, this book and this biography was specifically meant to boost Obama’s cool factor and rise to power. Once that biography became embarassing, Obama was put back in the closet about his true birth, or whatever.
Obama is running on a ticket that includes that biography. It is like de facto pledging allegiance to another country while running for president, and it is much much more grave and serious an offense than merely being born elsewhere.
Because he was. Don’t be stupid. He made the claim as long as it served him, but when it started to hurt him, he dropped it. Wake up america! Be at least vigilant when it comes to the Constitution. Dump this intruder from the office of President as fast as you can. He is a phoney! Dump him!
Because he was. Don’t be stupid. He made the claim as long as it served him, but when it started to hurt him, he dropped it. Wake up america! Be at least vigilant when it comes to the Constitution. Dump this intruder from the office of President as fast as you can. He is a phoney! Dump him!
Try and sell that ambiguity to a contractor company working for the State Department and you would never get the job.
Are you even realizing what you are saying?
There is no positive IDENTITY on a man who has power over all of us.
But again, that is liberal and gay to do that, to put the head in the sand, or, worse, to enjoy seeing others go to hell without an ounce of energy into checking introspectively where one is headed.
There is a character with this mad trait, it is The Joker.
Here's a novel idea because Barack O. is from Kenya.
“I know FR is birther territory,....”
The use of the term “birther” is an Alinski style tactic meant to ridicule anyone who has legimate questions about Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of POTUS.
Obama’s has always attempted to mask his lack of eligibility by saying, and I quote, “I was born here, I am a citizen.” Never mind that as a “constitutional Professor” he, of any, should know that that is not the Article II standard. The whole discussion is one big red herring intentionally put forth to muddy the waters. Obama, the Uniter, continues to fuel the “birthplace” controversy.
Obama’s birth certificate could show that he was born in, as one FReeper puts it, “the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House...” but as long as his father is continued to be listed, and acknowledged as, the Kenyan foreign citizen Barack Obama Sr. he is ineligible. I have never heard Obama claim that BO Sr was NOT his father have you?????
It’s the pink elephant that the left (and you?) want us all to ignore. Simply put Barack Obama Jr. fails to meet the Article II standard for eligibility of being a natural born citizen.
Yep there Zero is, fiddling away as you and his lacky supporters, promote firefights over the place of his birth......don’t look now, but DC is burning.......I for one am gonna put the fire out by making sure Obama is put out of the office he should have never held in November’s ballot box!
“Birther?” Nope! Constitutionalist, and proud of it.
Obama was born in Kenya.
It is now, as it always has been, a fact.
>Wake up america! Be at least vigilant when it comes to the Constitution.<
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How can you expect America to wake up when Congress is intentionally pretending to be in a coma regarding this entire eligibility affair?
A congresscritter would be the only person to get an investigation started.
A real reporter would then ask, "Then how did it get on the pamphlet?", and push until they got an answer.
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