Posted on 05/18/2012 5:42:20 PM PDT by lbryce
A possible source of the so-called "birther" issue--or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama--has been identified.
Obama's former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991.
According to a promotional booklet produced by the agency, Acton & Dystel, to showcase its roster of writers, Obama was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.
"This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me--an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to 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. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."
A copy of the booklet was published on Breitbart.com, under the headline: " Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.' It was part of the "vetting" of the president the site's late founder, Andrew Breitbart, had promised.
Here's Obama's full bio from the 1991 brochure:
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group,
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I wonder if this bio is in any early copies of “Dreams of My Father”?
Rush benefits from the chaos that the country is in.
He probably wants another four years of Obama.
” ... suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”
“As a postscript, he also wasn’t a regular at Chicago bathhouses and public restrooms. And I’ve been asked to stop writing now.”
The media will sweep it under the rug and so far the Republicans in office are cowards in that they never pressed the issue and why would they start now? Republicans in charge are always on the defense and never go on the offense and attack.
In 1991 she got it wrong, and again in 2007?
Thats Right ,but the 64,000 dollar Question remains,Mr.Obama WHY did you sign an Executive order sealing all of your Records as soon as you became President?
What are you Hiding?
If the witness is against you turn the witness. It's the Chicago way.
She meant to type Hawaii but somehow accidentally typed Kenya. OK.
“I wasn’t really born in Kenya, honest. But I pretended to be, to get into Columbia and Harvard.”
YEP
So he thought his father was Kenya's Finance Minister?
I'm pretty sure the padding of his own resume came from Obama. He wasn't an editor at BIC and was barely a journalist, more of a researcher.
But even in those days before google, you could still get in trouble if you falsely claimed that your father was a minister in a foreign government.
It's certainly possible something got garbled along the way.
If his father actually was a minister of a foreign government, then there is no argument to be made, by anyone on any level, that he could be eligible for office.
Such births to foreign dignitaries have always been precluded from United States citizenship at birth, whether or not such a birth occurred within the United States.
Let me go out on a limb- Barry got adopted by Soetero when he moved to Indonesia, and became a citizen there.
He then claimed Kenyan birth and Indonesian citizenship to get “foreign student” grants in the USA. If I’m right, that’s another good reason to keep certain facts hidden.
It would fit his whole pattern of claiming whatever suits him at the time.
Ding! I don’t know where he was born. But it is obvious that he is a liar. He either lied then and fraudulently claimed funds as a foreign student or he is lying now and is illegally occupying the office of POTUS.
Which?
“I wasn’t really born in Kenya, honest. But I pretended to be, to get into Columbia and Harvard.”
And I bet he plays POTUS on TV, too!
He doesn’t stay in a Holiday Inn Express, though.
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