Oh, the irony . . .
Me: And that book didn’t get written along those lines, right? Now, let us ask what might be a prime reason why the book concept you’re suggesting this agent was pitching didn’t get written from the “born in Kenya” angle. Here’s an obvious answer: because BHO II wasn’t born in Kenya!! And proof of that is found in the year-prior media reports (Times, Post, Tribune) stating that the President of the HLR was born in Hawaii.’ You: * * * Obama accepted the $ to write the book.
Yes, but why is it to be supposed "the book" had as some central premise or key fact that Obama was born in Kenya? You assume this without proof. Why on earth would Obama in 1991 -- having it just been reported by major media the year prior that he was born in Hawaii -- be discussing some book proposal that pitches a contrary birth narrative? The book Obama wrote was a memoir about Obama's childhood and life influences. None of us bloody remembers anything about our birth or the first few years of life. Kenya versus Hawaii is irrelevant to the thrust of the narrative, which takes importance only from the start of Obama's recollected years.
So your theory is he swindled the publisher, intending from the beginning not to write a single paragraph because he knowingly promoted a fraud?
So in addition to heaping lot of ad hominem, you are good at erecting Strawman Arguments.
My theory is that no one in 1991 -- Obama, agent, publisher in particular here -- is discussing a book proposal which has "born in Kenya" as a key component, given that in 1990 "born in Hawaii" was reported.
I’ll say it one more time. He took the $. He took the $ to write the born-in-Kenya book.
You can say it all you like. The claim that it was ever meant to be a "born in Kenya" book exists in your mind only.
You’re in an alternative universe.
I'm in a universe where major media reported in 1990 that Obama was born in Hawaii. And in that universe that 'born in Hawaii' statement is corroborated by the statement made by Obama's [step]parents in 1968 when they applied for his Indonesian schooling. And that is further corroborated by the INS files on BHO, Sr. And that is further corroborated by the Hawaiian newspaper birth announcements. And all of this is most certainly corroborated by the statements of officials of the State of Hawaii attesting that Obama was born in Hawaii. And under the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the Constitution of the U.S. (which also exists in the universe I inhabit) the latter pretty much definitively answers the birth question.
The agent’s author bio tells us the basic facts of Journeys in Black and White. Born of mixed race parents in Kenya, raised in Indonesia and HI, and ultimately elected pres. of the Harvard Law Review. That is what the agents advertised. It is Obama’s story, as would have been told in Journey’s in Black and White, had Obama actually written it.
‘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, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.’
The ‘Journeys’ depend on the Kenyan beginning. If you can’t read the above blurb and figure that out, you just aren’t...perceptive.
‘The book Obama wrote was a memoir about Obama’s childhood and life influences.’
You’re not an Obot butt you believe Obama wrote Dreams.
I must repeat that, just because it’s so outrageous.
You claim you’re not an Obot, butt you believe Obama wrote Dreams.
Or have you actually ever claimed not to be an Obot? Frankly I’ve never seen one pro-conservative/anti-Obama post from you. Perhaps you’re quite open about the trollery?
Anyway, do this. Find me one proven sample of Obama’s writing that reads ANYTHING like the prose in Dreams. Just one. [Hint: you can’t. The author of Dreams and Obama have 180 degrees different writing styles. (I.e.: one can write and the other can’t.)] Butt knock yourself out trying. Take as long as you need; I’ll be patient.