Well, I was never one who believed that obama was born in Kenya. He may have been, but it didn't really matter because his mother is a citizen. There were people, laughed at as "birthers" because they wanted obama to show his birth certificate, much the way John McCain did because McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone. Well, it turns out that obama may be the very first "birther."
According to Breitbart.com, which is another reason they hate Breitbart, obama tried to get his first book published in 1991. This wasn't one of the two that became best sellers, but a different one. The literary agent he used had their authors write a 3-5 sentence biography about themselves, so the agent could use that to try to sell the book idea. Barak Hussein Obama, in his biography, written by himself and submitted to the literary agent...stated that he was born in Kenya.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...nt-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
First from the author who used the same literary agent and submitted, by request, his own 3-5 sentence biography...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...on-guidelines-obama-kenya-fact-checking-error
The next article is from another author, Roger L. Simon, and he addresses the issue of where the biographical material may have come from...
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/05/18/the-mystery-of-the-kenyan-birth/
According to Breitbart.com, which is another reason they hate Breitbart, obama tried to get his first book published in 1991. This wasn't one of the two that became best sellers, but a different one. The literary agent he used had their authors write a 3-5 sentence biography about themselves, so the agent could use that to try to sell the book idea. Barak Hussein Obama, in his biography, written by himself and submitted to the literary agent...stated that he was born in Kenya.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...nt-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
Before people go to the current explanation, that it was a fact checking error, here are two articles that explore this topic, from two authors, one of whom used the same literary agent, the same year as obama.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 publishingDreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
First from the author who used the same literary agent and submitted, by request, his own 3-5 sentence biography...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...on-guidelines-obama-kenya-fact-checking-error
All material she used in our proposals came directly from me and my writing partner. She edited our rough-draft proposals and gave us feedback, but the final versions were all ours. Our final versions, bio included, were then simply photo-copied, by us, and distributed to potential publishers. This was back in the pre-Google days, recall.
I was asked to write the bio in the third person.
The next article is from another author, Roger L. Simon, and he addresses the issue of where the biographical material may have come from...
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/05/18/the-mystery-of-the-kenyan-birth/
I will leave aside for the moment the question of whether he vetted the agent’s material himself. As the author of eleven published books and seven produced feature films, I have had plenty of dealings with agents and publicity people and always looked over the bios they had written about me. Every author I ever talked to about it always did too. We’re those kind of egotists. But I have no way of proving that Obama did — although I would faint if he hadn’t.
But whatever he did, the question remains. Why did they put “Born in Kenya” in his bio and leave it there until 2007? The latter part of that question can of course be ascribed to normal human sloth, but the first part — there’s the rub.
Here are the explanations I can think of:
There is one other possibility. The agents simply made up the place of Obama’s birth, but I have never in all my life heard of a literary agent doing such a thing. It’s possible I suppose, but hardly likely. And why?
- Obama told them.
- It was in some early draft of Obama’s abandoned book (Journeys in Black and White) he submitted to them.
- Obama wrote it in his book proposal to them.
- Obama told them in a query letter.
- Obama answered one of those biographical forms.
- … Well, I’m running out because they all amount to the same thing.
[/QUOTEAnyway, per Occam’s Razor, I am going with the obvious — the agent’s source for Obama’s birthplace was… Barack Obama.
But again why? Why would he lie about where he was born?
So, what do you do with information like this? True, it doesn't change the fact that the man is a U.S. citizen and is legally allowed to be the President of the United States. What does it say about Obama as a man and as someone who sat around for months and allowed his minions to go out and make fun of and attack people who wanted to see his birth certificate? Is this a "nice guy?" Is this man a liar? Now many will say that he is a politician and therefore a professional liar. However, this was obama before he was anyone. This is a man trying to sell a book and a man who lied about his background to get the book sold. It is one more small item that reveals the character of obama. I believe the saying goes "Character is how you act when no one is looking." Well no one was looking and this is how he acted.
(not to mention the underage drinking, pot and cocaine use, and the associations with a convicted domestic terrorist bomber, a convicted felon who helped him buy his current home, an unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber good friend, an international terrorist group spokesman friend....the list goes on and on...)
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