Posted on 08/21/2012 2:23:06 PM PDT by grundle
Old news.
Just another inconvenient detail in the ObamaFraud’s life story.
Many in the socialist democrat party must be prosecuted for making the FOREIGNER’S ELIGIBILITY SCAM possible. There are documents that were submitted that were fraudulently altered to fool government officials into believing he was qualified. The MSM worked in full compliance with those involved.
Great find. Yes...why did they wait 17 yrs to change the “born in Kenya”
Instead of trying to run out a conservative Senate candidate in Missouri....maybe its time for so-called “Conservative” talk-radio and GOP media to start treating the Obama Eligibility issue much more seriously. At least, we would have explanation for all these Obama “birth” issues...instead of more questions.
Has anyone interviewed any of the vast numbers of authors with blurbs on this list, to find out how THEIR bios were produced? If the responses for authors who first had bios in the same time frame that Obama’s “born in Kenya” language first appeared demonstrate a pattern (e.g., submitting a bio you wrote yourself; answering a questionaire, etc.), that would be quite relevant. Typical industry practices, crap some employee says in 2012, etc., are not definitive.
Obama manages to hide from the obvious question some “courageous journalist” needs to ask: “Did you submit your own bio to Dystel & Goderich when you started promoting the book that became Dreams?” My guess is that Obama has told this born-in-Kenya lie so many times that he almost believed it himself until it became inconvenient.
I have read that Alan Keyes' Chief of Staff has denied that any such video exists. I would keep claims of the existence of this video in the "maybe" category.
It is annoying that you posted this old information. Those of us who make a point to keep up with this issue are well familiar with this bit of data.
His bio was written for his first book which wasn’t published. Dreams from my Father was his second book. I think his first book was his real memoir, the one that actually listed his birthplace as Kenya.
In a way, the editor was telling the truth that it was fact-checking error. She simply forgot to change the birthplace to match the new birthplace in his second book.
Dreams of my Father was a retelling of the first book, probably rewritten by Bill Ayers. So as not to hinder his political future, his birthplace was changed to Hawaii, even if it contradicted with a long paper trail.
Make no doubt about it, if you want to know the truth, you need to find a copy of Obama’s first unpublished novel...
Your points are well taken. It still amazes me, somehow, that the press can ignore the obvious — that the source of “born in Kenya” in the original marketing materials HAD to come from Obama, making him either a foreigner or a liar.
At the time the agent first printed a bio, Obama was a recent law school grad; he had no secretaries or official handlers. Where would the literary agent find “facts” about where the obscure Obama was born at this time? The agent’s possible sources of “born in Kenya” include: what Obama told the agents in interviews to get them interested in the book (assuming they didn’t approach him); a bio submitted by Obama; Obama’s responses to agents’ questions or forms; a bio from Obama’s Harvard/Law Review situation — of which Obama would be the source; or, an early abstract or sample chapters for the first book submitted by Obama himself. What other plausible sources would there be?
I think you are correct that the first attempted book used the Kenyan birth story, no doubt not for the first time. David Maraniss must have forgotten to ask the composite girlfriends if Obama ever told them where he was born.
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