Obama Bio Said He Was Born in Kenya
 

Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just reporting the story. Obama's literary agent published a booklet that included a biography of Obama. It read:

"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."

Now, of course the Obama literary agent who published the booklet back in 1991, claims that the part about him being born in Kenya was a mistake. If it was a mistake, Obama would have obviously had them correct it. I always try to be open-minded about these things. The only possible argument I can come up with to explain this (assuming that Obama was really born in Hawaii) is that at the time(1991), Obama thought it would look good to claim he was born in Kenya.


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ti...o-be-a-kenyan/

http://www.drudgereport.com/

What led the literary agent to mistakenly believe that Obama had been born in Kenya?

That is the whole point. Obama obviously told the literary agent he was born in Kenya. The literary agent didn't come up with it out of thin air. Assuming Obama was born in Hawaii, maybe Obama thought it would make his story more interesting if he claimed he was from Kenya. That is the only half-way credible argument I can come up with to explain why the literary agent wrote this, if in fact Obama is truly from Hawaii.

I think this story is a smoking gun. However, I don't even know if anyone will care at this point. I think people from both sides are going to believe what they want to believe, regardless of the evidence.

Or ... this fully-credible argument. Why would Obama not correct it? He'd never see it. It was an in-industry thing.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/20...a_mistake.html


The President is still black. Many Americans are still really pissed about that.

Note: Drudge knew that the story was false but put this out anyway, with Rush's endorsement. What sleaze.

Yes. Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Barack Obama Senior. How could this mistake possibly have been made? Why, mistakes are never made in industry promotional materials ....

But of course, the logical thing to freak about, would not be that Mitt Romney was born in Mexico, but that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

What do you mean he knew the story was false? The story is not false. The story is true. The story doesn't prove Obama was born in Kenya but it does prove that the literary agent wrote that Obama was born in Kenya in the bio.

As I said before, people from both sides are going to believe what they want to believe. By the way, the literary agent never claimed that she was thinking about Obama's father. She simply claimed that she made a mistake. Is it possible that she simply made a mistake? Sure it possible but it is not likely.

By the way, you have no evidence that Obama never saw it. To say it would have been unlikely that Obama never saw it would be an understatement. If you write a book and you have a literary agent that you are paying money to, you don't think the literary agent is going to send you the promotional booklet that she is sending out on your book? That is extremely far-fetched.

I'll rephrase: He knew the story had already been explained as the obvious mistake it was. He knew the truth. But he published it anyway. Because apparently all the right-wing loons have this election cycle to feed the Obama hate is recycling Rev. Wright and trying to re-light birtherism?

Yet there sits the certified, verified, beyond-a-doubt birth certificate. There sits two newspaper publications of the birth.

Those documents from the past are discarded, ignored and great lengths (and conspiracies) are created to explain that reality away, while the explanation of a mistake in a promotional pamphlet is denied as coverup.

Good lord. Birtherism is a more ridiculous, lunatic conspiracy theory than the moon landings never happened. Talk about having to create unbelievable gyrations and denial of reality in order to believe it. My god. This country is a laughingstock overseas with "birthers".

His birth certificate has been certified, verified, beyond a doubt? There is tons of evidence to the contrary.

What did Obama's own lawyer Alexandra Hill say about the authenticity of the birth certificate?

You probably never thought that Rev. Wright was a legitimate issue. I don't understand that because if a republican was running for President and it came out that his pastor was constantly preaching anti-black sermons, you would think that was a huge deal.

Whether he's American or not...it's painfully obvious his past has been manipulated to create suspicion...and possibly revolution.

Don't put anything past Bill Ayers. He's a Russian sympathizer.

"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, why did they write that he was? I'm not saying that Obama was born in Kenya, but why did they say it?

Shorter this thread: black black blackity black black black.

:tro:

You're a race baiting idiot. You're what's wrong with this country.

Unbelievable, pre-meditated-for-years-planned conspiracy theory:




Smoking Gun Of OMG Truth!




Good reading

It's racist to be a true journalist and report stuff.

Whatever slaves. Typical apologist middle class hippies who are intellectually bankrupt and obedient to their socialist masters.

Hang a Russian flag outside instead, tards.

Breitbart - dead
His coroner - dead

Obama - Kenyan/American? Rev. Wright, Ayers, Soros, bowing down to Putin, NDAA, EO giving us the right to confiscate Yemini property on American soil.

Yeah we're racist. That's the reason he's being vetted. :rolleyes:

Disinfo liberal trolls. Anti-American scum.

That is exactly why I'm saying that I don't believe that woman's story of what happened. As you said, if she was never told that Obama was born in Kenya, then why would she have written that? She's not going to write that out of thin air. In addition, she claims she was the one who wrote it and that she was an intern at the time. Wouldn't her bosses have noticed the mistake?

I don't buy it. I don't believe it was a mistake. She was obviously told that Obama was born in Kenya. Now it is possible that they decided to claim he was born in Kenya to make the story sound more compelling. I think that is more likely than the woman just making a mistake. You couldn't make a mistake like that. You are given the details about a person and you copy them down in the bio. You don't just make these up off the top off your head.

You mean like Mitt Romney and Robert Jeffress and Jeffress' constant preaching hate speech? Yeah, you'd think that would be a big deal to some.

Well, except those who don't hold a man responsible for the lunatic ravings of his preachers.

IOKIYAR :tro:

There are no mistakes at that level. For a booklet they spent over $30,000 to produce.

You don't blindly stumble into the Presidency of the United States without a shadow being by your side. To think otherwise is foolish and for people who claim racism when their loved one is under attack.

The sheeple.

They're just as crazy. This thread is about the current President, however. Please, for once, stay focused. I know it's tough. You don't like being wrong.

Not funny. You're a loser twat supporting a Manchurian candidate.

^^^ has a huge amygdala.

Huh?????? What does Robert Jeffress have to do with Mitt Romney? Jeffress isn't Romney's pastor. Jeffress isn't a mormon. He is some pastor in Texas that says Mormonism is a cult. What is his connection to Romney?

If this was a mistake then they definitely caught it in the following months and issued a correction. To think otherwise is naive.

If it's a mistake it's on record. Now the libtards have to find it. Riot will troll instead.

His long national reputation for hate speech (anti-Mormon, anti-gay, etc.) and then his huge endorsement of Romney. Jeffress is very well known nationally and the pastor of one of the biggest churches in Texas.

But again, some don't falsely attribute hate by mere association. Others do.

There is no association between Romney and Jeffers. Who cares if he's voting for him. I'm sure all the New Black Panthers are voting for Obama. I'm sure all the KKK members are voting for Romney. You can't help who supports you. Ninety percent of Americans are going to be pulling for either Romney or Obama. There will be murderers and rapists supporting both candidates. That's not an association. Obama and Rev. Wright had a true relationship.Wright was his pastor.

Rev Wright is old news. Stay focused on the economy and relevant missteps such as the fast and furious program and the use of a drone to kill an American teen in Yemen. Ignore the fools who would vote for a canned ham if it suited their agenda.

The article is typical propaganda in that the whole article is pretty much half-truths. Half-truths are not outright lies. They have some truth to them but they are very misleading because they take a lot of things out of context and they only give you half the story.

The most interesting part of the article was at the beginning: “There were images that caused fear and disgust -- a spider crawling on a person's face, maggots in an open wound -- but also images that made you feel happy: a smiling child, a bunny rabbit.” The researchers noted two differences between the groups. The researchers studied their subjects' reactions by tracking their eye movements and monitoring their “skin conductivity” – a measure of one's autonomic nervous system's reaction to stimuli.

Conservatives showed much stronger skin responses to negative images, compared with the positive ones. Liberals showed the opposite. And when the scientists turned to studying eye gaze or "attentional" patterns, they found that conservatives looked much more quickly at negative or threatening images, and [then] spent more time fixating on them."

It was very interesting to me in that I came to a totally different conclusion than the author. My conclusion is that the conservatives behaved like normal people. Who wouldn't have a huge negative reaction when they see something horrific? I guess the answer is liberals. Liberals live in denial. If they see something horrific, they just shrug it off like it never even happened. That's actually not a very good evolutionary trait or survival trait. I think natural selection would reward the people that vividly remember something that is horrific and/or threatening and are vigilant in avoiding such threats in the future.

In addition, a person who has a real heart and is compassionate is going to be very upset when they see something that is disturbing. I am like that. I am certainly not ashamed of that. At least I'm not like a liberal who could look at something horrific and then just shrug it off and have very little or no reaction to it. It is bizarre that the author thinks this is a good trait (to have little or no reaction to something horrific).

And they are dismissive of history and think it will never happen in their lifetime.

They are being conditioned for the slaughter.

All I want to know is this........
 

...When a person is writing a bio for someone who is the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review, do they invent facts such as "born in Kenya" just for the hell of it?

I think Obama is a US citizen even if he was born in Kenya. The only question is the law about a President having to be a "naturalized" US citizen. I have heard arguments both ways on this. I'm not clear on what the law is. Some experts say that if Obama was born in Kenya that he would not be eligible to President. Other experts say that even if Obama was born in Kenya, he would still be eligible to be President. I haven't looked into that issue so I have no idea what the answer is.