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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
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The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'
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by Joel B. Pollak24 minutes ago118post a comment
Note from Senior Management:
Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.
It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.
It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.
It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.
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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 publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
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 booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.
Front cover (outside) - note Barack Obama listed in alphabetical order
Front cover (inside)
Jay Acton no longer represents Obama. However, Jane Dystel still lists Obama as a client on her agency's website.
According to the booklet itself, the text was edited by Miriam Goderich, who has since become Dystel's partner at Dystel & Goderich, an agency founded in 1994. Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.
The design of the booklet was undertaken by Richard Bellsey, who has since closed his business. Bellsey, reached by telephone, could not recall the exact details of the booklet, but told Breitbart News that it "sounds like one of our jobs, like I did for [Acton & Dystel] twenty years ago or more."
The parade of authors alongside Obama in the booklet includes politicians, such as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill; sports legends, such as Joe Montana and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and numerous Hollywood celebrities.
The reverse side of the page that features Barack Obama includes former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and early-1990s "boy band" pop sensation New Kids On the Block.
Acton, who spoke to Breitbart News by telephone, confirmed precise details of the booklet and said that it cost the agency tens of thousands of dollars to produce.
He indicated that while "almost nobody" wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom "the agents deal[t] with on a daily basis," were "probably" approached to approve the text as presented.
Dystel did not respond to numerous requests for comment, via email and telephone. Her assistant told Breitbart News that Dystel "does not answer questions about Obama."
The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.
The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.
David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of Obama has reportedly confirmed, for example, that a girlfriend Obama described in Dreams from My Father was, in fact, an amalgam of several separate individuals.
In addition, Obama and his handlers have a history of redefining his identity when expedient. In March 2008, for example, he famously declared: "I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."
Several weeks later, Obama left Wright's church--and, according to Edward Klein's new biography, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, allegedly attempted to persuade Wright not to "do any more public speaking until after the November [2008] election" (51).
Obama has been known frequently to fictionalize aspects of his own life. During his 2008 campaign, for instance, Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments.
That turned out to be untrue, but Obama has repeated the story--which even the Washington Post called "misleading"--in a campaign video for the 2012 election.
The Acton & Dystel biography could also reflect how Obama was seen by his associates, or transitions in his own identity. He is said, for instance, to have cultivated an "international" identity until well into his adulthood, according to Maraniss.
Regardless of the reason for Obama's odd biography, the Acton & Dystel booklet raises new questions as part of ongoing efforts to understand Barack Obama--who, despite four years in office remains a mystery to many Americans, thanks to the mainstream media.
Larry O'Connor contributed to this report.
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Even hannity's neutral ass is saying "now, to be clear, I'm not a birther, but I could be convinced........."
LOL.
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I wonder how ozmo is going to try to spin this turd.
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I wonder how ozmo is going to try to spin this turd.
you really wonder?
"My pulisher/publicist now admits he was confused - that was actually where my father was from. I've never seen this document. You already saw my birth cert. You're crazy."
Publisher will back him up, of course. Prez asks you to play ball, your ass plays ball. All a footnote story in 2 days.
And we already know the left/media will fall right in line. The important thing here - will the RIGHT WING media talk about this as an issue, or will they (2 weeks from now) still say "I'm not a birther, I never have been". Cause that's a bitch move. They KNOW his ass was born in kenya. BUt hannity and rush are so afraid of being labeled as a birther that they won't go there.
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you really wonder?
"My pulisher/publicist now admits he was confused - that was actually where my father was from. I've never seen this document. You already saw my birth cert. You're crazy."
Publisher will back him up, of course. Prez asks you to play ball, your ass plays ball. All a footnote story in 2 days.
And we already know the left/media will fall right in line. The important thing here - will the RIGHT WING media talk about this as an issue, or will they (2 weeks from now) still say "I'm not a birther, I never have been". Cause that's a bitch move. They KNOW his ass was born in kenya. BUt hannity and rush are so afraid of being labeled as a birther that they won't go there.
I have been a birther from day 1 and still am.
Fuck - i am not even sure he is human any more.
Obama is like Hindemberg Melao/PCoderch - a freaking never ending mysterty clouded by lies.
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I have been a birther from day 1 and still am.
I disagree. I was a public birther while you were still posting articles saying coy things like "Now, I'm not a birther, but this sure is interesting..."
I smelled bullshit from obama from minute one on it. I begged you to just come out. You were a later arrival to team fakebirthcertificate, but it's nice to have you here.
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Also, the Ct of a CTer in me says - that as the trayvon, then gay marriage, then romney ad stuff starts to get tired...
THIS is another obama plant story to come out in the news to make repubs look stupid - or divide them.
Romney has to TAKE A POSITION on this. He'll be asked about it. Either he shows he's a wimpy dude who is scared to comment, or he gets labeled a crazy. He loses with the base who see once again he doesn't have the guts to call obama out as being illigitmate. I mean, a LOT of people are saying "this is interesting..." but I bet romney will not - cause he's SCARED of wht the LEFT WING media will SAY ABOUT HIM.
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no one ever makes an error on a press release so it must supercede official government documents, birth announcements, in the paper, witnesses, etc...
one typo and it must be fact
at least to the dumbest lawyer on the planet and the morons at Breitbart
hey 333- how is the investigation into Breitbarts murder coming along
Are you and O'Keefe going to be holding a press conference sometime soon?
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no one ever makes an error on a press release so it must supercede official government documents, birth announcements, in the paper, witnesses, etc...
one typo and it must be fact
at least to the dumbest lawyer on the planet and the morons at Breitbart
hey 333- how is the investigation into Breitbarts murder coming along
Are you and O'Keefe going to be holding a press conference sometime soon?
Where is the typo and why would they have printed that?
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Where is the typo and why would they have printed that?
I assume both questions are in jest
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I assume both questions are in jest
no - why would his own agent write that?
Face it - obama could be Himdenberg for all we know.
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no - why would his own agent write that?
Face it - obama could be Himdenberg for all we know.
maybe because they were sloppy and careless and confused
surely you can relate to all three of those things
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maybe because they were sloppy and careless and confused
surely you can relate to all three of those things
LOL - yeah they just imagined all that shit up and obama himself didnt correct it either!
LOL
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According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.
Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.
By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama had already been a national figure for three years, since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, by the time the biography was changed; he had been a sitting Senator for over two years.
Ben Shapiro is the Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @benshapiro.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007
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LOL - yeah they just imagined all that shit up and obama himself didnt correct it either!
LOL
if you're the dumbest, most careless and slopply lawyer in the world then you eliminate the obvious and go right to your preconceived beliefs
btw - did the crack team of investigators at Breitbart obtain a copy of the "booklet"
you'd think that Obama would talk about being born in Keyna in that booklet.....right
of if he talkd about being born in America then they would assume the booklet was wrong and the press release was write
After all, Obama wrote the book but he didn't write the press release and most likely never even saw it
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According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.
Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.
By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama had already been a national figure for three years, since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, by the time the biography was changed; he had been a sitting Senator for over two years.
Ben Shapiro is the Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @benshapiro.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007
and when did they stop representing Obama again?
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if you're the dumbest, most careless and slopply lawyer in the world then you eliminate the obvious and go right to your preconceived beliefs
btw - did the crack team of investigators at Breitbart obtain a copy of the "booklet"
you'd think that Obama would talk about being born in Keyna in that booklet.....right
of if he talkd about being born in America then they would assume the booklet was wrong and the press release was write
After all, Obama wrote the book but he didn't write the press release and most likely never even saw it
Then why did they change it right after he announced for presidency?
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Then why did they change it right after he announced for presidency?
good lord you're dumb
because someone finally noticed the error
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Yeah, that looks pretty bad that they changed it in 2007.
this does lead a little credence to my CT that it's team obama leaking it NOW and not in october coming from the repubs.
You know "oh, that old ass CT stuff we dealt with back in may?" as opposed to trying to explain it on Halloween as people get ready to vote.
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good lord you're dumb
because someone finally noticed the error
LOL
You are so gullible.
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LOL
You are so gullible.
it's called being rational
if you had any common sense you'd know that people make all kinds of errors and this one was made in 1991 (prior to the agency even existing) and got carried forward and no one even noticed
When he announced for POTUS and started raising money someone on his staff finally stumbled across this and fixed it
that's the reasonable explanation
the crazy explanation is to ignore what is reasonable an just jump to conclusions without any evidence
How about you and your buddy O'Keefe track down a copy of that booklet and see if Obama talked about being born in Keyna. That would actually be doing some fact checking but we know that is not Breitbarts style (even in death). His style is to throw out something in the media and draw a conclusion and then have people do the larger part of what should have been his job and point out his errors.
Of course Breitbart knows that by that time the morons of the world, such as yourself will have already been convinced that it's true and that's the goal in the first place
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it's called being rational
if you had any common sense you'd know that people make all kinds of errors and this one was made in 1991 (prior to the agency even existing) and got carried forward and no one even noticed
When he announced for POTUS and started raising money someone on his staff finally stumbled across this and fixed it
that's the reasonable explanation
the crazy explanation is to ignore what is reasonable an just jump to conclusions without any evidence
How about you and your buddy O'Keefe track down a copy of that booklet and see if Obama talked about being born in Keyna. That would actually be doing some fact checking but we know that is not Breitbarts style (even in death). His style is to throw out something in the media and draw a conclusion and then have people do the larger part of what should have been his job and point out his errors.
Of course Breitbart knows that by that time the morons of the world, such as yourself will have already been convinced that it's true and that's the goal in the first place
Your doing splits over this bro.
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Your doing splits over this bro.
I don't even know how that analogy applies
I've said it's an error and one written in 1991 that no one noticed until 2007
Go find that booklet and see if Obama talks about being born in Kenya
That would be newsworthly
You'd think the dopes at Breitbart would have checked that out, if for no other reason to make sure it doesn't contradict their assumption
Oh wait, they dont really give a shit
It's all about getting people to notice them
Just like Shirley Sherrod
They were completely wrong but it didn't matter and there are probably people out there that still believe that Breitbart was correct..... and you're probalby one of those people
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Sounds like another job for Sheriff Joe and his cold Case Posse!
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Sounds like another job for Sheriff Joe and his cold Case Posse!
Barack "Himdemberg" Obama - uuummmm uummm uuuummmm
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Barack "Himdemberg" Obama - uuummmm uummm uuuummmm
Its all coming down now isn't?
I bet you cant wait!
this one thing is SURE FIRE PROOF!
:D
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Sounds like another job for Sheriff Joe and his cold Case Posse!
maybe 333 and O'Keefe can take some time out from their Breitbart murder investgation and work on this instead
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As one who has seen numerous errors go out in press releases, I wouldn't bank on that as being the smoking gun, however it suuuuuure is a juicy piece of water cooler discussion to distract everyone from what is taking place before their very eyes.
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No way, this is absolute proof!
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No way, this is absolute proof!
according to 333 there is simply no other explantion about how this could have happned
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according to 333 there is simply no other explantion about how this could have happned
Lol. How many times in your life did people mistake you for being born in Kenya?
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Lol. How many times in your life did people mistake you for being born in Kenya?
Another solid gold argument
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Another solid gold argument
fine, substitute Algiers instead. :P
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fine, substitute Algiers instead. :P
Sure, add it to your solid proof list.
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Sure, add it to your solid proof list.
look, you voted for obama based on pipe dreams and bullshit. Sorry that all this is coming out when it should have 4 years ago.
Just face it - you voted for a freak show mysterious Kenyan fraud who has no business in the WH.
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look, you voted for obama based on pipe dreams and bullshit. Sorry that all this is coming out when it should have 4 years ago.
Just face it - you voted for a freak show mysterious Kenyan fraud who has no business in the WH.
What are you all pissed about?
You got your rock solid evidence!
time for you and the looney birthers to march on Washington!
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What are you all pissed about?
You got your rock solid evidence!
time for you and the looney birthers to march on Washington!
Had Obama been honest and released everything this would not be an issue. But no, the hope and changers like yourself who gave us this biblical disaster based pn emotion still can't grasp the fact that you were played for a completed fool.
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Had Obama been honest and released everything this would not be an issue. But no, the hope and changers like yourself who gave us this biblical disaster based pn emotion still can't grasp the fact that you were played for a completed fool.
another solid gold argument!
You are on a role!
Take it to the top!
You can do it!
We believe in you!
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The Hand of Clinton in Obama revelations?
american thinker ^ | Thursday May 17, 2012 | Jack Cashill
Posted on May 17, 2012 10:52:53 PM EDT by Bigtigermike
For what this brochure reveals is that, regardless of where Obama was born, he has been manufacturing his biography from the day he hit the mainland.
The emergence of this brochure two weeks after David Maraniss's revelation in Vanity Fair about Obama's composite girl friends and one week after the debut of Ed Klein's new book on Obama, The Amateur, suggests some media string-pulling beyond the powers of any conservative.
Call me a conspiracy theorist -- a tag that has lost much of its sting in the last few hours -- but I sense the hand of Clinton. The Klein book, for instance, opens with an intimate meeting chez Clinton in which Bill encourages Hillary to do the seemingly unthinkable, namely challenge Obama in 2012. Someone at that meeting was allowed to talk to Klein, probably encouraged to talk to Klein. Indeed, the meeting may have been staged for Klein's benefit.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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ToxicAvenger?
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ToxicAvenger?
Barack Hindemberg Obama.
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Barack Hindemberg Obama.
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May 17, 2012
The Hand of Clinton in Obama revelations?
Jack Cashill
In the age of instant communication Brietbart.com's revelation that Barack Obama was listed on his agent, Jane Dystel's brochure, as having been "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" is already old news.
This news, however, is simply too hot for the major media to ignore. I would expect Obama spokesman Jay Carney to lay off the "mistake" to some misguided publicist, but that will no longer work. For what this brochure reveals is that, regardless of where Obama was born, he has been manufacturing his biography from the day he hit the mainland.
The emergence of this brochure two weeks after David Maraniss's revelation in Vanity Fair about Obama's composite girl friends and one week after the debut of Ed Klein's new book on Obama, The Amateur, suggests some media string-pulling beyond the powers of any conservative.
Call me a conspiracy theorist -- a tag that has lost much of its sting in the last few hours -- but I sense the hand of Clinton. The Klein book, for instance, opens with an intimate meeting chez Clinton in which Bill encourages Hillary to do the seemingly unthinkable, namely challenge Obama in 2012. Someone at that meeting was allowed to talk to Klein, probably encouraged to talk to Klein. Indeed, the meeting may have been staged for Klein's benefit.
Obama had almost no chance of winning in November even before this revelation. Watch for the Hillary bandwagon to gather steam. She can be beaten in November, but it will not be easy.
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/the_hand_of_clinton_in_obama_revelations.html at May 17, 2012 - 11:05:49 PM
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you really wonder?
"My pulisher/publicist now admits he was confused
HAHAHA I CALLED THIS ONE!
Born in Kenya': Obama's literary agent misidentified his birthplace in 1991
Source: abcnews.go.com
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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."
"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."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566#.T7WNsY4zL8t
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Oh well.. If it's on a promotional material and the jacket of a book... case closed! I know that the last time I needed to prove my place of birth, I used a peeled potato skin when the authenticity of my official birth certificate was called into question. True story! ;D
With that said, that is a pretty amusing story.
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HAHAHA I CALLED THIS ONE!
Born in Kenya': Obama's literary agent misidentified his birthplace in 1991
Source: abcnews.go.com
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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."
"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."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566#.T7WNsY4zL8t
No surprise...another one of 33333356's threads go down in flames. ::)
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No surprise...another one of 33333356's threads go down in flames. ::)
Add that to his Obama is a spy/traitor
Death camps will be included in Obamacare
Obama will never be able to kill OBL/AQ
etc etc etc etc............
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AP declared Obama “Kenyan-Born”
John Charlton
The Post & Email
October 16, 2009
What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.
How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
The AP reporter stated the following:
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.
The difficulty in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
For those who believe what they see, here is the screen capture of the page from the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004 — Just in case that page is scrubbed from the Web Archive:
http://www.infowars.com/ap-declared-obama-kenyan-born
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Who gives a flying fuck where Obama was born?
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Obama 'Kenya' Lit Booklet Raises Question MSM Will Refuse to Ask
Breitbart ^ | MAY 17, 2012 | John Nolte
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 7:16:16 AM by RobinMasters
Never once have I doubted that President Obama was born in Hawaii. There's no way in the world that little constitutional issue would ever have got past the Clintons during the 2008 Democratic primary. Now that we're clear on that...
The exclusive story published by Breitbart News today about a 1991 booklet released by Obama's literary agent that falsely claims the President was born in Kenya, is about many things NOT having to do with where our President was born. And one of those things is the abject failure of the mainstream media to vet properly the man they so desperately wanted to be president.
Breitbart News is a scrappy, upstart organization less than four years old, and the fact that this is our exclusive is great for us. However, more importantly, it is a condemnation of a media that most certainly had the resources to find this story...had they wanted to. And who knows, maybe someone in the media did come across it but chose to cover it up.
The booklet in question that falsely states the President of the United States was born in Kenya is only 21 years old. It's less than half as young as the now-discredited story that ran in The Washington Post last week about Mitt Romney's supposed bullying as a teenager in high school.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Obama 'Kenya' Lit Booklet Raises Question MSM Will Refuse to Ask
FOX was flirting with it, but hannity only said about 50 times "now, i'm not buying into this birther stuff..."
It's so cute that they'll label any Qs about 911, WMD, etc as CT nonsense, but when there's legit facts here - they're just too cowardice to admit this is highly troubling.
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Barack Obama: A Composite Kenyan
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/05/18/barack-obama-a-composite-kenyan
A man happy to let others embellish his background to separate himself from his peer group to his advantage now wants to be the final arbiter on fairness in America.
Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)
Friday, May 18th at 4:46AM EDT
56 Comments
“The Breitbart Crew are kind of like illegal immigrants — doing reporting Columbia journalism grads won’t do. And doing it quite well.”
The Breitbart Crew has done the world a very valuable service in finding a 1991 biography of Barack Obama from his literary agent claiming he was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
Our own Jeff Emanuel also pointed out a 2004 Associated Press article that began, “Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.”
I do not believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya. I don’t think it matters even if he were born overseas because his mother was an American citizen. I’m not going to debate it with the cult of birtherism.
But the Breitbart Crew has, only a few days after the Obama White House was caught editing the biographies of other Presidents on the White House website to insert Barack Obama into their Presidential legacies, done an invaluable service in highlighting two very important issues.
First, as someone who has written a book, I find Barack Obama’s literary agent’s explanation not very credible. The literary agent explains, “This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. 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.”
It was a fact checking error based on . . . no facts? Barack Obama never gave any information . . . suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii? Well where the hell did this very huge extrapolation come from? It’s like the virgin birth of a legend — some lady and God alone were involved.
That’s laughable. Miriam Goderich had to have gotten the idea from somewhere. But what is more laughable is that Barack Obama did not know and did not approve. When I wrote my book, I had to approve my biography multiple times. But more damning, this biography went to the press in 1991 and it circulated for more than a decade.
Even the Associated Press picked it up and I cannot find anywhere suggesting Barack Obama tried to have the AP correct its reporting.
The point is not that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The point is that Barack Obama has repeatedly been perfectly okay embellishing and having others embellish his qualifications and biography to make himself someone unique instead of just another Chicago politician. The pattern goes back to his job as a “financial reporter”.A former colleague of his and Obama fan, way back in 2005, claims Barack Obama really embellished his resume describing his financial related reporting.
Second, and the largest point, however, is that the media is yet again caught flat footed, claiming the story is no big deal, irrelevant, or that somehow the Breitbart Crew is in the wrong and peddling Birtherism.
They are not peddling Birtherism. The Breitbart Crew are kind of like illegal immigrants — doing reporting Columbia journalism grads won’t do. And doing it quite well. In 2008, the New York Times ran a big story on John McCain having an affair with a lobbyist. It got picked up all over the place. Reporters were on the trail. There was no *there* there.
It took most of the month of August in 2004 for the media to pay attention to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — men who served with John Kerry and had real problems with both his conduct in Vietnam and his conduct after he left Vietnam. The media did not want to cover the story. For a while, it was just Fox News. The clear demonstration of bias finally forced the New York Times and the big three nightly newscasts to play catch up as dismissively as possible.
This story has been out there since Barack Obama ran for the United States Senate. Even now the media is dismissing it as frivolous. If it turned out Mitt Romney had not actually been a missionary in France, it would be headline news.
Barack Obama embellishing his biography to make himself look unique? Hardly worthy of press attention. In fact, nothing Barack Obama has done suggesting serious character flaws — and that’s what this is about — is ever worth the media’s collective attention. Why? Because some people think Barack Obama was born in Kenya, but much of the press corps is pretty damn sure he was born in Bethlehem.
One last point — a friend raised this on email. Could this be why the campaign screams bloody murder about racists and birthers every time someone asks about Barack Obama’s college transcripts? This would explain why Obama is so squirrely about the issue and waited until Donald Trump caused him measurable damage in the polls on this issue before responding. He’s not embarrassed that people will find out he lied about being born in Hawaii; he’s embarrassed they’ll find out he lied about being born in Kenya.
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more examples of "I'm NOT a birther, but let's spend 500 words examining this point I make about him not being born here."
As long as people are pussies about their beliefs, obama gets away with it. Romney won't touch it. Hannity and Rush complain the MSM is too scared to address it, but themselves won't admit anything past "there are some interesting points here - but i'm not a birther".
Even 333386, the biggest obama hater here, spent months tip-toeing "now, i'm not a birther, but let's look at these 75 articles...."
Until people just sack the fck up and stop worrying that "well, people will think i'm crazy" - and until they stop labeling anyone crazy who believes maybe there's something to UFOs, that govts would lie about attacks, etc..."
Well, until they sack up, they should STFU.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/A-Fact-Checking-Error-Repeated-Multiple-Times-Over-Several-Years-by-Different-Agencies
OUCH!!!!!
Obama has always been a compulsive liar.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/A-Fact-Checking-Error-Repeated-Multiple-Times-Over-Several-Years-by-Different-Agencies
OUCH!!!!!
Obama has always been a compulsive liar.
33, do you agree the media (both right and left) should STOP perpetuating this perception that anytime you question the 'official story' of anything, you're a nutbag?
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33, do you agree the media (both right and left) should STOP perpetuating this perception that anytime you question the 'official story' of anything, you're a nutbag?
Of course!
But this is a side show to the main issue - OBAMA'S ENTIRE LIFE IS A COMPOSITE OF MANY LIES AND FALSEHOODS
The media created a false narrative of obama and refuses to do its job.
He has never been qualified for any position he has EVER held and it aided and abetted by the incompetent media who just pushed this fraud along.
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Obama obviously gave information stating he was born in Kenya. Why would his literary agent assume something like that without information? It was convenient for Obama to be Kenyan born at the time, now it's convenient for him to be American born.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/A-Fact-Checking-Error-Repeated-Multiple-Times-Over-Several-Years-by-Different-Agencies
OUCH!!!!!
Obama has always been a compulsive liar.
Takes one to know one ;)
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Arizona Secretary of State Threatens to Remove Obama from Ballot
by Keith Koffler on May 18, 2012, 8:25 am
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is threatening to keep President Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in November unless he receives confirmation from Hawaii that it has a valid birth certificate on file for him.
Bennett, who spoke to Arizona radio host Mike Broomhead Thursday, said he requested the confirmation eight weeks ago and has not gotten it. Hawaii, he said, does not have to supply a certified copy of the birth certificate, merely send him an email confirming that it has one.
Asked by Broomhead if he would remove Obama’s name from the ballot if Hawaii fails to comply, Bennett said: “That’s possible. Or the other option would be that I would ask all the candidates, including the president, to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate.”
Despite overwhelming evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii, the issue of his birth continues to dog him. Thursday, Breitbart Big Government reported on a promotional booklet by Obama’s own literary agency listing him as having been born in Kenya.
Bennett said Hawaii law permits government officials to request verification of possession of a birth certificate in lieu of a certified copy.
“They could say yes tomorrow and the whole thing goes away,” Bennett said. “If they can’t say yes to that simple question, than it makees we wonder if we have to take it to another level. One way or another, we have to have some simple verification that people are qualified for the office if they’re going to be on the ballot here in Arizona.”
Bennett asserted that he is not a “birther” and denied accusations that he is playing to the birther crowd in Arizona because he wants to run for governor. But Bennett also hedged in stating his belief that Obama was Hawwaii-born.
“I believe the president was born in Hawaii – or at least I hope he was,” Bennett said.
Arizona, with its 11 electoral votes, is an important 2012 presidential battleground state. A Real Clear Politics average of recent polling in the state has Mitt Romney ahead by only four points.
One thing I’d like to make clear. This blog believes Obama was born in Hawaii. But it also believes threats by the Arizona Secretary of State to exclude the president from the ballot are newsworthy.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/05/18/ariz-secretary-state-threatens-remove-obama-ballot
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Again what does it matter?
Bush was the worst president ever and he was born in Texas
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The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth
PJ Media ^ | 5-18-2012 | Roger L. Simon
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 9:03:06 AM by smoothsailing
May 18, 2012
The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth
Roger L. Simon
Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack Obama’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com [1] — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya — set my old mystery writer mind ablaze.
How could that be? Why would they think such a thing?
There are only two forks in this road — either he was born in Kenya or he wasn’t.
I have never been a conspiracy theorist and will assume the latter, although I have to confess that for the first time, given this revelation, I have the tiniest soupçon of doubt.
Nevertheless, the more interesting, and actually frightening and depressing, conclusion is the former. So what if he was born in Kenya? At least we know why he lied about it. He wanted to be president.
But why did Obama’s agents think he was born in Kenya? That’s a more interesting question. (Obama, of course, is a liar either way.)
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:
1.Obama told them.
2.It was in some early draft of Obama’s abandoned book (Journeys in Black and White) he submitted to them.
3.Obama wrote it in his book proposal to them.
4.Obama told them in a query letter.
5.Obama answered one of those biographical forms.
6.… Well, I’m running out because they all amount to the same thing.
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?
Anyway, 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?
Well, he might have wanted to glamorize his past, but if that’s so, it’s pathetic. I suspected there was a more substantive reason, one that would cause him to leave his African birth place in place in the bio. But to take the risk of being found out, it would have to be strong.
My wife Sheryl and I, like Nick and Nora Charles, discussed it over gimlets this evening. We both agreed the mystery lay somewhere in Obama’s college and university years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. We knew, as you do, there must be an explanation for why the court eunuchs of the mainstream media have never bothered even to investigate the scholastic career of the most powerful person in the world.
Because Obama got bad grades? Yawn — so did Bush, Kerry, Biden, Ted Kennedy, and dozens of others who later found themselves making life or death decisions over our lives.
No, it had to be something more significant, more potentially dangerous. What if, we thought, as others have suggested, the reason Obama’s school records have not surfaced is that he enrolled, at one of those institutions at least, as a foreign student — a Kenyan?
But why would he choose to do that? Well, maybe for a grant, a subvention, a scholarship that was available uniquely to students from Africa or similar locales.
Yes, I know that’s not “fair,” in the lexicon of the Lord of Fairness, to have adopted a phony identity and deprived others of an opportunity they may have more richly deserved. But it would certainly fit with Obama’s early need to be recognized as a Kenyan by his agent and, presumably, his publisher. As we all know, it’s not the crime, but the cover-up. (In this case, actually, it’s both.)
As time went on, of course, college drifted away and politics reared its head. The Kenyan identity became less necessary, even a liability, so it was dropped.
I don’t know about you — but this makes sense to me. It also fits with the tomb-like silence around his college years.
But I could be wrong. After all, I am only a mystery writer and, worse yet, a screenwriter. The professional investigative journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times will no doubt dig deep and give us the true explanation.
But if they don’t, and I know you’re skeptical, we have to keep pushing, every one of us. We must learn the truth of this. We owe it to Andrew B. — and to our country.
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Yes, I saw the Breitbart Obama Bio Thing [Anne Barnhardt]
Barnhardt Capital Management ^ | May 17, 2012 | Ann Barnhardt
Before I start this post, please see the story on my Twitter feed (to your left) confirming that Trayvon Martin was stoned on drugs when he died, just as Zimmerman suspected. If Holder and the DOJ convict Zimmerman of anything in some kangaroo court, as they have indicated they intend to do, militias should muster. Zimmerman is a life-long Democrat, and I'm here to say that if that man is falsely imprisoned by this regime, every God-fearing American should take up arms and free him. I don't care how he voted or who he gave money to. IT DOESN'T MATTER. Injustice against one is injustice against all.
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In case you are under a rock and haven't heard, Breitbart.com released a piece today citing Obama's literary agent's promotional bio of Obama, which Obama either wrote himself or explicitly edited and approved, which states that he was BORN IN KENYA.
HERE IS THE BREITBART PIECE
Here is Michelle saying exactly the same thing a few years ago at a gala for some militant homosexualist organization:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
The literary agency's bio was used from 1991 until - get this - 2007. What a coinkydink, huh?
Here is a great video from the uber-excellent Jack Cashill expounding on all of this:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
Two points:
1. This proves that Obama is a stone-cold liar and con-man. Checkmate. Either he lied when he said he was born in Kenya, or he lied when he said he was born in Hawaii. The fact that he commissioned and released an OBVIOUSLY FORGED Hawaiian birth certificate certainly causes the Obama garbage scow to list to the side of the lie being that he was born in Hawaii.
Barack Obama IS A LIAR. He is a man of degenerate morality, and is a psychopath. Is anyone going to do anything about the fact that a con-artist psychopath is the Chief Executive of the largest economy in the world and the history of the world? Is anyone going to do anything about the fact that a con-artist psychopath is the Commander-in-Chief of the largest military force in the world and the history of the world? Is anyone going to do anything about the fact that the entire intelligence, law enforcement and bureaucracy of the United States government is either so incompetent that they couldn't even vet ONE MAN or that they are complicit in Obama's con?
Which segues into my second point . . .
2. The Breitbart group AND the HotAir fools (Ed Morrisey and Allahpundit), ONCE AGAIN are pissing all over people who dare point out that Obama's eligibility to hold the office of the Presidency is seriously, seriously in question. They are doing this in the same breath WHILE REPORTING THIS VERY STORY, which proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that Obama is a liar and con-artist.
WHY? Why do these "conservatives" refuse to engage reality on this point?
I know the answer, and I warn you, it is very depressing.
These folks have made a BOATLOAD of money off of the Obama usurpation. Bottom line: Obama is good for business if you are a "conservative" blogger looking to advance your career and either move into a high-paying gig in the "mainstream media" OR attempting to establish a new-model business like Glenn Beck. It was reported (I think in Forbes) that Beck made a cool $80 million last year. Don't think for a second that Morrisey, Allahpundit and the Breitbart Team aren't salivating at the thought of seven-to-eight figure annual hauls.
I actually believe that most of these folks are rooting for Obama to "win", for whatever that means in a lawless electoral environment, in November because Obama is very, very good for their businesses. Think about yourself. Do you read more or less news now than you did four years ago? Oh, I'd be willing to bet that you read MULTIPLES of what you read four years ago. I do. No doubt.
In order to get those page views, and thus that ad revenue, these folks want as much upheaval and fear among their readers as possible. Obama provides upheaval, fear and outrage in massive quantities. Thus more page views. Thus more income. If Romney is "elected", many folks would stand down and traffic to sites like HotAir, Breitbart and Beck would curtail precipitously.
Before you accuse me of hypocrisy, please remember that there are no ads on this site. I have been told that I could easily generate several thousand dollars per month by putting ads up here. I refuse. I refuse to profiteer off of the end of the world. I also fully realize that if I started advertising here that I would notice and CARE about traffic, and would thus censor or otherwise shade what I write in order to maximize revenues and retain readers. Okay, at that point I would not be serving God, I would be serving mammon (money). Nope. I don't give a crap if I have ten million readers or zero. It's all exactly the same to me, and it is going to stay that way. In other words, HONEST.
Doing this "blogging thing" has done nothing but cost me money, and now that Barnhardt Capital Management is no longer in business (thanks to Obama crony and oligarch Jon Corzine, who stole $1.6 billion and totally destroyed the entire financial market paradigm) I am burning through reserves with each passing month. I have enough material to publish at least TWO books of essays - I even have a self-publishing deal ready to go - but I can't bring myself to do it because I don't want to go to hell for profiteering off of the death of my country and civilization.
So yeah, I am uniquely qualified to call out these money-hungry bloggers and pundits (Malkin, Coulter, Limbaugh) who refuse to report on the fact that Obama is illegitimate, and who may even be rooting for his reign to continue.
Sins of omission are every bit as grave as sins of commission, and protecting income or assets is not a valid excuse for concealing the truth. Michelle, Ann C. and Rush may be able to buy their way out of the country when the poop hits the prop, but they won't be able to buy their way out of their Particular Judgments.
Finally, here are my thoughts on all of this. One more time: THERE IS NO HOPE IN WASHINGTON D.C.:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
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WOW - THE DAM IS BURSTING
Get ready for President Biden.
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A 'Fact Checking Error'? Dystel & Goderich Ask Writers to Submit Their Own Bios
By Steve Boman4 hours ago186post a comment
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/05/18/Flashback-1993-Obama-Talks-About-Changing-Theme-Of-His-Book
Submission guidelines at the Dystel & Goderich website (original emphasis): "[Y]ou should describe in two or three sentences—no more—what the book will be about. This is followed by another brief paragraph on why it is being written and then another on why you are qualified to write it....Finally, there should be a more formal narrative Bio of the author."
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Back in the mid-1990s, I lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. My wife was a medical student at the University of Chicago and I worked as a newspaper reporter.
I didn't know it, but also living in Hyde Park a few blocks away was a fellow just a couple years older than me named Barack Obama. At the time, he was a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, and I'm sure that at one time or another we crossed paths. I had no idea who he was, and unless he was a regular reader of the Chicago Daily Southtown, I'm pretty certain he had no idea who I was.
During that time, another reporter and I decided we wanted to write a non-fiction book about aging super-jocks--men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s who could still sprint or do an Ironman or play baseball.
So we searched long and hard for a literary agent, and finally we found one who liked our material. Her name was Jane Dystel, and she worked in New York City.
A few years earlier, Jane Dystel had agreed to rep another client: my neighbor, Barack Obama!
All these years later, my former neighbor is President of the United States, and I'm reading a kerfuffle about how Dystel's agency promoted Obama as being born in Kenya. The kind people at Breitbart News asked me to write a bit about what it was like writing material for Jane Dystel and how she worked.
Now let me say right up front: when it comes to Obama, I'm not going to speculate who wrote what, when. Dystel had assistants, one of whom is now her partner, Miriam Goderich, who says the whole Obama-born-in-Kenya thing was a fact-checking mistake by her. And I cannot speak specifically to the mechanism of Dystel's publicity. (Alas, Dystel was unable to sell anything I wrote, so she had no reason to promote me, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)
I can speak of what she was like to work with and how she generated material. In my dealings with Dystel, I found her exceptionally thorough and very professional. She had a template she wanted non-fiction writers to follow, and my writing partner and I followed her template closely. She was rather fastidious, going so far as to mail a personal "Season's Greetings" card in December.
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.
Our first proposal didn't generate any offers from publishers. We needed an advance to be able to afford to write it, and with no money forthcoming, we shelved the idea.
Several years later, my writing partner and I returned to Dystel with what we thought was a better proposal. We had joined forces with a Pulitzer-prize winning photographer, and we thought our proposed book, "Drinking from the Fountain of Youth: Profiles and Portraits of Ageless Women Athletes," would sell. Dystel liked the idea, and she agreed to rep it. I have pulled that proposal out of my files, and it is sitting on my desk as I write this.
That second proposal logged in at 59 pages, including original art and writing samples. My bio for that proposal was five sentences long. Of course, since it was a sales pitch, I puffed myself up: I highlighted how I had reported for Minnesota Public Radio and The Philadelphia Inquirer but omitted my years at the somewhat lowly Chicago Daily Southtown. I suppose I could have made something up (who would have known?), but I didn't.
Despite Dystel's encouragement and hopes, the second also project failed to sell. By that point, I was living in Southern California, and still hadn't heard of Barack Obama. I had moved from Chicago a few months after he was sworn into the Illinois State Senate in '97, and he didn't show up on my radar. Granted, my wife and I had a new baby, she was finishing med school, and had been preparing to move out of state at the time. Life was a blur. I didn't much care who Hyde Park's new state senator was.
Later, I would learn who Obama was when he made a speech in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention. A few years later I discovered we shared Jane Dystel--or at least we did, briefly, because Obama dropped her after his very delayed success with his book Dreams From my Father. For his second book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama, in the words of the New York Times, "untethered himself from his longtime literary agent in favor of Robert B. Barnett, the Washington lawyer who had gotten Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton an $8 million book advance and then landed Mr. Obama a $1.9 million, three-book deal."
Continued the Times:
What happened between Mr. Obama and Ms. Dystel is not clear. Ms. Dystel declined to be interviewed for this article. Mr. Obama said, "It really had more to do with the fact that by the time 'The Audacity of Hope' was written, I was going to be in Washington and was obviously now very high profile." Mr. (Peter) Osnos called Mr. Obama’s decision to switch to Mr. Barnett, whose clients include former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, "disloyal but not unusual."
Meanwhile, I last had contact with Dystel two years ago. I came to her with another book idea. It was a memoir, like Obama's first book. In my story, I wrote about how I attended the University of Southern California's vaunted film school as a busted-broke middle-aged family man, a guy with three young daughters and a wife recovering from cancer, and how I had a stroke while in film school and ended up selling a prime-time television series to CBS while still at USC.
Dystel declined to rep it. She said she wasn't interested.
The story ends well; immediately after Dystel dropped me, I found another literary agent who loved my idea and sold it within weeks. My book, Film School, was released late last year, and Hollywood is already knocking at my door.
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Dystel's full submission requirements from her website today (original emphasis):
Nonfiction Proposal Guidelines
We work very hard with our clients to help them create their proposals and because we think this part of the publishing process is so very important, we wanted to share our basic formula for putting together a non-fiction proposal.
The proposal is broken down into several parts:
The first is the Overview. This begins with a brief dramatic anecdote which is meant to get the reader, in this case the editor at the publishing company, interested in the material. Immediately after this anecdote, you should describe in two or three sentences—no more—what the book will be about. This is followed by another brief paragraph on why it is being written and then another on why you are qualified to write it.
After this, you need to describe your audience who will buy your book—both demographically and statistically. The more numbers you have here the better.
The final element of the overview is a comparative section where you compare your book to others that would be found in the same place in the bookstore. In each case, you must provide the author, the title, the publisher, and the year of initial publication and, book by book, tell us how your proposed book will be as successful as those or more so.
The next element of the proposal is the Annotated Table of Contents. This consists of chapter heads and no more than a couple of sentences on what each chapter will contain.
Then you need sample material:
•If you’re writing a general nonfiction book, we need at least one sample chapterthat matches a chapter described in your annotated table of contents. The sample chapter is meant to do two things: show off the writing and tell us things we don’t already know.
•If you’re writing a cookbook, there should be a section of sample recipes, which can be labeled as such. There should be 10-12 recipes from all parts of the book (i.e., one or more from the appetizer section, one or more from the soups and salads section, one or more from the entrees section, etc.). Each of these recipes should be accompanied by headnotes (about a paragraph of text introducing the recipe). Each recipe should be in standard cookbook format and should clearly state the number of people it will serve. In addition to the sample recipes, you’ll need to include introductory text from one or two different sections of the book so that editors get a sense of your narrative writing style.
Finally, there should be a more formal narrative Bio of the author.
This is followed by links that serve as Support Material—reviews of previous books, recent articles by and about you from national publications, a schedule of speaking appearances, any national media appearances, etc.
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What a lying sack of shit.
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ha ha ha ha ha ha - how prophetic!!!!
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/publisher-not-only-one-confused-about-obama-birthplace/print
LOL. Evenvthe govt could not figure out obamas immaculate conception.
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Here is the deal. He was born in the US. Not Kenya. And the Breitbart organization still believes he was born in the US.
However, thier are two main points that Breitbart.com is trying to make.
1. He was not properly vetted by the media.
2. Obama was trying to make people think he wasnt born in the US. That does not speak well for his character. And it explains why people think he wasnt born in the US. If his own literary agent said he was born in Kenya, you shouldnt blame a bunch of right wing people for believing the same thing. Its only after you dig a little deeper that you find out he was indeed born in Hawaii. Bottom line, its Obama's own fault that people thought he was born in Kenya.
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at this point Kenya is praying proof emerges that. Obama was born in Hawaii.
Here is the deal. He was born in the US. Not Kenya. And the Breitbart organization still believes he was born in the US.
However, thier are two main points that Breitbart.com is trying to make.
1. He was not properly vetted by the media.
2. Obama was trying to make people think he wasnt born in the US. That does not speak well for his character. And it explains why people think he wasnt born in the US. If his own literary agent said he was born in Kenya, you shouldnt blame a bunch of right wing people for believing the same thing. Its only after you dig a little deeper that you find out he was indeed born in Hawaii. Bottom line, its Obama's own fault that people thought he was born in Kenya.
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Gonna need more copy and paste.
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Here is the deal. He was born in the US. Not Kenya. And the Breitbart organization still believes he was born in the US.
Using "believes" is a bit... strong, don't you think? The facts speak for themselves: conservatives (in media and politics alike) who come out and say that Obama was born in the U.S. always leave a bit of wiggle room and throw a bit of a barb. A fine example from this very thread: Arizona's Secretary of State, Ken Bennett: “I believe the president was born in Hawaii – or at least I hope he was.” If you believe he was born in Hawaii, hope is irrelevant. If you have doubts and must rely on hope then you don't really believe he was born in Hawaii.
1. He was not properly vetted by the media.
This is slightly nonsensesical, and I will tell you why: even if it were true, the campaign of his opponent, and the party itself employ a lot of staff members whose job consists entirely of scrutinizing the candidate. The last 2 election cycles, especially, the amount of scrutiny that candidates on both ends have undergone is insane. And it's now starting to extend to their families too. Today, we are at the point where “vetting by the media” involves talking to classmates from elementary school, neighbors from childhood, requesting medical records, researching ex-girlfriends, going through hundreds of hours of videotapes of sermons by the candidate's pastor, and god knows what else...
That's not to say that some in the media didn't give Obama a “free ride” for lack of a better term, in allowing him to define the life rhetoric which they then took and repeated, and in not pressing him for answers on certain issues. But to suggest that he wasn't “properly vetted” is flat-out nonsense. Name one Presidential candidate (except Romney) who was more scrutinized than Obama.
2. Obama was trying to make people think he wasnt born in the US. That does not speak well for his character. And it explains why people think he wasnt born in the US. If his own literary agent said he was born in Kenya, you shouldnt blame a bunch of right wing people for believing the same thing. Its only after you dig a little deeper that you find out he was indeed born in Hawaii. Bottom line, its Obama's own fault that people thought he was born in Kenya.
The interesting question isn't what his literary agent believes. The interesting question is do we have any factual evidence that Obama himself misled him?
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Using "believes" is a bit... strong, don't you think? The facts speak for themselves: conservatives (in media and politics alike) who come out and say that Obama was born in the U.S. always leave a bit of wiggle room and throw a bit of a barb. A fine example from this very thread: Arizona's Secretary of State, Ken Bennett: “I believe the president was born in Hawaii – or at least I hope he was.” If you believe he was born in Hawaii, hope is irrelevant. If you have doubts and must rely on hope then you don't really believe he was born in Hawaii.
This is slightly nonsensesical, and I will tell you why: even if it were true, the campaign of his opponent, and the party itself employ a lot of staff members whose job consists entirely of scrutinizing the candidate. The last 2 election cycles, especially, the amount of scrutiny that candidates on both ends have undergone is insane. And it's now starting to extend to their families too. Today, we are at the point where “vetting by the media” involves talking to classmates from elementary school, neighbors from childhood, requesting medical records, researching ex-girlfriends, going through hundreds of hours of videotapes of sermons by the candidate's pastor, and god knows what else...
That's not to say that some in the media didn't give Obama a “free ride” for lack of a better term, in allowing him to define the life rhetoric which they then took and repeated, and in not pressing him for answers on certain issues. But to suggest that he wasn't “properly vetted” is flat-out nonsense. Name one Presidential candidate (except Romney) who was more scrutinized than Obama.
The interesting question isn't what his literary agent believes. The interesting question is do we have any factual evidence that Obama himself misled him?
Im not sure what you mean by wiggle room. DId his literary agent say that he was born in Kenya, or did he not say it? Conservatives arent creating any wiggle room with this. The conservatives who have said he was born in Hawaii never wrote that publishers brochure.
Its very convenient for you not to count Romney as an example of someone who was scrutinized. Doesnt that prove my point? Letting a literary agent misrepresent your country of birth is a bit different than putting your dog in a kennel on top of your car.
If you were Obama would you have let that place of birth sit incorrectly on that publishers's brochure? Its kinda like not having any evidence that Ron Paul didnt know about those racially charged senences on his newsletters.
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this will NEVER take a foothold until conservatives stop being little wimps about "now I'm not a birther, but..."
They love to label people are loons... they are scared of it themselves.
Allowing only crackpots like trump and orally tate to wear the birther sign proudly diminishes it. If every fox radio host was a proud birther (let's be honest, they're probably all birthers off the air), then every fox LISTENER would have the courage to do so.
Even getbiggers like 333386 spent months denying they were a birther while posting 'interesting' articles selling birtherism. Why do people care so much about what the left-wing media is gonna call them? Hannity trashes the left all day but sure doesn't want that birther title....
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240, there have been more conservatives who have criticized birthers than there are liberals who criticized truthers. Im not sure what you are trying to say here. We cant help it if there are people other than right wingers 20 years ago who thought Obama was born in Kenya. Im sorry you dont have as much room to criticize birthers anymore. Its not our fault. Are you trying to say that Donald Trump went back in time to 1995 and put a gun to that literary agent's head and forced him to say that Obama was born in Kenya?
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240, there have been more conservatives who have criticized birthers than there are liberals who criticized truthers. Im not sure what you are trying to say here. We cant help it if there are people other than right wingers 20 years ago who thought Obama was born in Kenya. Im sorry you dont have as much room to criticize birthers anymore. Its not our fault. Are you trying to say that Donald Trump went back in time to 1995 and put a gun to that literary agent's head and forced him to say that Obama was born in Kenya?
I listen to FOX radio all day long - i am pretty sure i've heard levin, hannity, rush all say they're not birthers. I KNOW i've heard beck say it.
I bet Savage is an honest birther, I dunno.
Does anyone have a list of which prominent republica voices have had the courage to say "You know, I think that birth cert is a fake, and I think he was born in Kenya". ?
MM2k, my position on this issue is known here - I made fun of 33 for not admitting he was a birther. I've been a birther from before that. Just too much missing pieces which *could* show it... too much effort to delete it. I know I buy into CTs when I se the coverups, but it makes sense.
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Im not sure what you mean by wiggle room. DId his literary agent say that he was born in Kenya, or did he not say it? Conservatives arent creating any wiggle room with this. The conservatives who have said he was born in Hawaii never wrote that publishers brochure.
Please learn to read: I was not referring to the statement of the agent. I was referring to statements like those of the Arizona Secretary of State. They say they believe Obama was born here, but they do while they drop little hints that they don't quite buy it. And that is what I mean by wiggle room.
My point is that if they don't believe that Obama was born in the United States, despite the evidence, they should come out and say it outright. Not hide behind their fingers.
Its very convenient for you not to count Romney as an example of someone who was scrutinized. Doesnt that prove my point? Letting a literary agent misrepresent your country of birth is a bit different than putting your dog in a kennel on top of your car.
No, actually it isn't convenient; as for whether it proves your points, who knows? I don't know what your point is, just that you entirely missed mine. I said "except Romney" because Romney is running contemporaneously with Obama and my point was that candidates in this day and age are all - regardless of party - subjected to very thorough "investigations" both by the media and political supporters and opponents. Name one other candidate that has been more thoroughly researched than either Romney or Obama. If this trend keeps up, in 2015 we will be discussing about the candidates' behavior in kindergarten!
If you were Obama would you have let that place of birth sit incorrectly on that publishers's brochure?
If I knew it? No, I wouldn't have. But that's the point: do we know that Obama knew about it and failed to correct it?
Before you answer, allow me to relay the following true story: a Professor at the University I attend was nominated for an award. During the presentation of the award, a short clip about him was shown using a large overhead projector. Much to our amusement, the subject of the clip was another Professor, with the same name, who was from a different field and was retiring at the end of the semester. The person who made the video got an email saying he should Interview Professor X for a video. He did.
The Professor X who was was interviewed assumed the video was made in conjuction with a party associated with his upcoming retirement.
The other Professor X - the one receiving the award - simply didn't know that a video was to be shown or that his doppelgänger was interviewed in his stead.
And the video was approved by close to a dozen people, including the Dean of the department of which the Professor receiving the award was a member of...
So, again, I ask: do we know that Obama knew about this but failed to correct it? I find a more plausible explanation that whoever wrote the relevant portions either assumed or simpy got confused between the Barack Obama born in Kenya and the Barack Obama born in Hawaii. Occam's Razor.
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Obama’s Manger: What if Kenya’s a Little Town in Hawaii?
Townhall.com ^ | May 20, 2012 | Doug Giles
Posted on May 20, 2012 7:21:31 AM EDT by Kaslin
Who the heck was Obama getting to hawk his books back in the ‘90s when he was doing coke and weed and hanging out with Marxists? Whoever it was, it is now causing quite a bit of consternation for BHO’s camp because they put on his bio that he was born in Kenya. This publication, apparently, even confused Michelle about Barack’s country of origin, as this video points out.
Kenya? Now, what kind of crap publishing company gets the nation of origin wrong for a rising star and does not correct it until 16 years later when he begins his bid for the Oval Office? Huh? I’ll tell you what kind of company: a sloppy company … a sloppy, sloppy company. Or … or … a racist company. Someone get Sharpton on this now that the Trayvon case is unraveling, as this could be fresh investigative fodder for the revered sleuth named Al.
I’ll tell you who else could have made such a ghastly mistake: a company run by women. Yep, that’s it. I bet a woman made that error because we all know how women can’t spell very good. Or is it goodly? Goodish? Hold on, let me check and see if it was a chick who made the mistake. Yep, one Miriam Goderich was the one who bungled BHO’s bio. Oh, I’m sure she “mistakenly thought,” as my buddy Neal said, “that Obama was from Kentucky, misspelled it, and it got auto-corrected to ‘Kenya,’ and no one caught the error before it went to press.” I bet she got fired and has never, ever done any work that relates to Obama since … or am I wrong about that?
Now, for detractors who are saying, “Well, Barack should have spotted the typo [the only glaring typo, by the way, on the entire brochure] and demanded his agency correct it.” All I’ve got to say is that you cannot expect a Harvard Law student to be busied with checking this type of minutiae as he was hard at it with macro issues, such as studying critical race theory, black liberation theology and Rules for Radicals.
It’s only low-level authors like me who’ve got the time to check for blunders, and thank God I did because on my most recent book my publicist—another woman—said I was originally from Tanzania instead of Texas. Women. #barefootandpregnantplease.
The fail-safe is that we have the mainstream media who will clear up this issue of Obama’s birthplace and get us back to the big issues of gay marriage, free rubbers for female law students and cars that run on algae.
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Who Is Barack Obama? The Question that Won’t Go Away
May 19, 2012 - 4:46 am - by Roger Kimball
So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of Twitter atwitter.
What should we think about that? An agency spokesman who claims to have been responsible for the “born in Kenya” wheeze has publicly said that it was a mistake, a typographical error, a slip of the pen that just went “unchecked” for, um, sixteen-seventeen years. I can understand that. She meant to write “Hawaii” and wrote “Kenya” instead. Could happen to anyone. They look and sound enough alike, don’t they, that no one noticed. You meant to write “there” and you wrote “their” instead. You meant to write “cup” and you wrote “floccinaucinihilipilification” instead. No one—no one at the literary agency, not the author himself—could be expected to notice. You understand that, right?
Well, maybe that is an unprofitable line of inquiry. However it happened, the take-away here is not that Obama was really born in Kenya. As my friend Roger Simon points out in “The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth,” the noteworthy thing is that it is one more puff in the cloud of unknowing that surrounds the president.
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It’s been pretty foggy in those precincts for some time. During the 2008 campaign, many of us asked the question: “Who is Barack Obama?” It wasn’t a question that Obama’s official PR firms—The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc.–were interested in, no sirree, but it was a question that some of us pajamas-wearing-bitter-enders asked ourselves when we weren’t snake handling or nuzzling our firearms.
It’s a question that has recurred as more and more pieces of the Obama jigsaw puzzle have worked their way loose and exposed little gaps or fissures in the story. The most recent one concerned Ms. Composite, the girlfriend who didn’t exactly exist. But there have been other revelations, or, rather, revelations of non-revelation. Turns out the book filed under “Autobiography” ought to have been filed under “Teen Fantasy,” “Mystery,” or some other rubric in the fiction section.
Since 2008, the meticulous Stanley Kurtz has patiently been sifting through what materials are publicly available to answer the question Who Is Barack Obama? His book Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism is essential reading for anyone the least bit curious about the political history and ideological commitments of the most powerful man in the world.
But not everyone shares Mr. Kurtz’s curiosity. At the beginning of the Metaphysics, Aristotle observes than human beings are by nature curious animals: they ask questions and want to know the truth about the world around them. But not all men. One of the great oddnesses of the 2008 campaign was the code of omerta enforced by the the legacy media about anything having to do with Obama’s past. Where was he born? Don’t know, don’t care. What were his college years like? Can’t you move on to something important, like the time Mitt Romney ragged some hippie in high school? Why did Obama say that former Weatherman Bill Ayers was “just a guy in the neighborhood” when he was plainly an important political mentor, if not also the ghostwriter, for the future president?
And on and on and on. There are a lot of questions to be asked about Barack Obama. Why are his college records sealed? Why can’t we see a certified copy of his birth certificate? Why are his medical records sealed? I’ve been told that his Social Security registration was issued by Connecticut, which would be odd, but cannot check because that too is sealed. Obama worked as a lawyer, but we don’t know who he worked for because his client list is sealed. Why is it that Michelle Obama can no longer practice as an attorney? We know the fact but not the reason.
As I say, last time around, general infatuation guaranteed that Obama got more or less a free pass from the legacy media. I suspect there will be much more curiosity as the summer progresses and we get into the campaign. For one thing, the nimbus of inviolability around Obama has been seriously breached. He is no longer the pristine knight come to lower the oceans, fix the economy, and “fundamentally transform” the United States of America into a green paradise where everyone suckles happily at the federal mammary gland except the evil coal producers who are miserable bankrupts. No, I suspect that even The Washington Post, even The New York Times, will have to take a peek or two under the covers of the tale of this international man of mystery.
They’ll more or less have to. Alternative sources of information are much more potent now than they were in 2008. It matters not if The New York Times closes ranks and buries a story. There are too many other instruments of disinterment. The news will out. And the more people know about Barack Obama, the more, I predict, they will wonder how this man became president of the United States. As a first, preliminary spur to curiosity, I share the following image just sent to me by a friend. Click on the next page to see.
Kenya or bust.
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Kenya or bust.
If every republican and moderate called their congressman and their favorite radio host and said "Stop being a pussy - just embrace birtherism"...
Obama would be out of a job in 6 months. But "oh, I am not technically a birther of course, but..." is weak as a popcorn fart. As long as everyone takes that position, it shows they don't have the balls to run this country, to take it back from the bullshit leadership of Obama. So if they wanna be wimps about it, then let's enjoy Obama's policies, cause you deserve to be controlled by your govt, cowards :)
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If every republican and moderate called their congressman and their favorite radio host and said "Stop being a pussy - just embrace birtherism"...
Obama would be out of a job in 6 months. But "oh, I am not technically a birther of course, but..." is weak as a popcorn fart. As long as everyone takes that position, it shows they don't have the balls to run this country, to take it back from the bullshit leadership of Obama. So if they wanna be wimps about it, then let's enjoy Obama's policies, cause you deserve to be controlled by your govt, cowards :)
I live in NYS. Obama himberberg could be on tape screwing a chicken and they would support him.
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Why Barack Obama listed his birthplace as Kenya
Doug Ross@Journal ^ | 5/19/12 | Doug Ross
Posted on May 20, 2012 8:44:11 AM EDT by pookie18
The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as "Kenya". And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent's website.
Was Barack actually born in Kenya? I seriously doubt it, even though Michelle Obama has publicly stated that Kenya is her husband's "home country". Contemporary newspaper listings in Honolulu, for example, list the time and place of his birth. While this isn't ironclad proof, to be sure, it's good enough for me.
No, my suspicion is that Mr. Obama manipulated his birthplace intentionally (and cynically) to take advantage of certain benefits unavailable to those born in the United States.
Bookworm Room describes why that might have been. We need to set the Wayback Machine to 1978, when young Obama was seeking admission to college.
1978 isn’t just any year. It’s a very special year. It was the year that the Supreme Court decided Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) 438 U.S. 265... [and] held that [the] race-based admission process was unconstitutional.
With that decision, Obama, who was a self-confessed slacker in high school, suddenly lost his e-ticket to a good college. He couldn’t know then (nor would it have mattered) that the various concurrences in this deeply divided opinion would eventually open the door to colleges and universities making race a “factor” in admission, so much so that this “factor-ness” eventually created a whole new quota system.
My best guess is that, denied an opportunity to use quota systems to parlay a lousy academic record into a quality college admission, Obama searched around for other means of bypassing his academic failings. It was this search that led him to announce that he was Kenyan. I’m sure that a certain amount of digging will reveal that, just when the Bakke decision came down, American universities were engaged in some sort of pro-active policy involving increasing the number of African nationals on America’s college campuses. Obama was happy to oblige the universities in this effort by co-opting his father’s nationality, and burying the fact that he was a garden-variety American black kid.
There’s the nexus — In 1978, Obama, who already then was willing to lie to achieve his goals, created a false identity to deal with the changes the Bakke decision wrought on college admissions.
This appears to be an extremely plausible explanation for Obama's refusal to release any of his college transcripts.
My guess is that this scenario -- or one similar to it -- helps explain why Obama enjoys the company of race-hustlers like Al Sharpton.
And where was the media for lo these many years? Busy investigating Sarah Palin's elementary school chums?
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240, there have been more conservatives who have criticized birthers than there are liberals who criticized truthers. Im not sure what you are trying to say here. We cant help it if there are people other than right wingers 20 years ago who thought Obama was born in Kenya. Im sorry you dont have as much room to criticize birthers anymore. Its not our fault. Are you trying to say that Donald Trump went back in time to 1995 and put a gun to that literary agent's head and forced him to say that Obama was born in Kenya?
haha. of course, tiger
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240, there have been more conservatives who have criticized birthers than there are liberals who criticized truthers.
I dunno... I used to watch Hardball daily, along with Morning Joe. They smeared the shit out of Rosie when she had some quesitons about the recorded temperatures being hotter than jet fuel could ever attain, 6 weeks after most of the fuel exploded outside the building... I mean, there ewre pools of molten steel under WTC 1,2,7... that's something nobody can explain... the use of explosives explains that, the use of airplanes does not.
911 commission didn't address the pools, nobody will. Rosie asked how they're still 1400 degrees in December down there.... and Morning joe and Chris mathews tore her a new asshole just about every night and day on theeir shows.
It irritated me cause it wasn't her saying "bush with a plunger..." - It was her saying "why doesn't the 911 report address a physical piece of evidence not possible with jet fuel alone"? And of course, they still mock the 911 truthers every time ron paul comes up.
So maybe it's fresh with the birtherism, but they're still trashing truthers 10+ years after the fact.
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Hey remember that story of the postal worker who said ayeres told Jim Obama was a student from Africa?
Probably Obama faked being from Africa to get better school loan or preference or some shit like that.
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Re: The full vetting of Barack Obama that the MSM failed and fails to do.
« Reply #278 on: March 20, 2012, 05:48:41 AM »
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/postman-ayers-family-put-foreigner-obama-through-school
Video at site of the postal worker w meeting of Obama and Ayeres together long before Obama claims they met.
Says he was told that "Obama is a foreign student"
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Hawaii won’t send official confirmation of Obama’s birth to Arizona because it can’t
coachisright.com ^ | May 20, 2012 | George Splevin, staff writer
Posted on May 20, 2012 11:10:36 AM EDT by jmaroneps37
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is saying he is “stunned” that after eight weeks election officials in Hawaii still have not provided him with even so much as an Email confirming they have proper documentation on record regarding Barack Obama’s official birth certificate.
Because of their lack of official reply, Bennett is considering keeping Obama off of the Democrat ballot in Arizona! “For some reason they haven’t been willing to say yes,” the AZ SoS told radio talk show host Mike Broomhead.
Bennett said he’s received over 1,200 Emails from his state’s citizens asking him to require Barack Obama to produce an original birth certificate. “This is impossible to get,” because states only provide certified copies of the original document.
But the State of Hawaii apparently won’t even do that or even Email confirmation according to their new rule changes. “Hawaii can’t or won’t answer. . .do you have a birth certificate for this guy?” Bennett said.
In reply to Broomhead’s question: “Will you exclude the President from the ballot?”, the AZ official said that is a possibility, or he may ask all candidates to submit valid birth certificates. When CIR called both Bennett and his communications director, they both were either not at their desks or not in the office.
A commenter on this story said, “Why can’t this guy produce the real documents, college records, etc. Is he afraid to show he received financial aid as a foreign student?”
Florida‘s eligibility challenge is still alive with Attorney Larry E. Klayman representing Citizen Mike Voeltz in a case that already has gone through 19 preliminary motions, hearings, and filings, since being put on the docket of Judge Terry Lewis on 2-15-2012. Case No. 37 2012 CA 000467 has eight different attorneys…….
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The real reason Obama won’t get re-elected
CanadaFreePress.com ^ | May 20, 2012 | Jerry Philipson
Posted on May 21, 2012 4:37:46 AM EDT by Kukai
In 1991 President Obama’s literary agent produced a booklet which included a biography of him. The booklet clearly stated that he was born in Kenya. The statement remained in his biography until 2007.
Obama almost assuredly told the agent that he was born in Kenya. It was standard practice then and it is standard practice now in the publishing industry for authors and potential authors to provide agents information for the biographies they produce and to approve the biographies before they are printed. It is virtually inconceivable that Obama didn’t tell the agent about his birth in Kenya and didn’t approve of it being in his biography, especially since it stayed there for 16 years and was reprinted many times over before it was removed in 2007 prior to his running for President.
If the statement is true, Obama was ineligible to run because he was not born in the United States, that being one of the requirements for running for the office. It is entirely possible that the statement was removed because Obama wanted to keep his birthplace from the electorate and from the people in the Democratic Party who were responsible for vetting him as a candidate. Obama has said that he was born in Hawaii but the ‘evidence’ he has produced to support this is questionable at best and has been disputed for years. If he was not born in the United States he would not have been eligible to run for office, pure and simple.
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240, there have been more conservatives who have criticized birthers than there are liberals who criticized truthers. Im not sure what you are trying to say here. We cant help it if there are people other than right wingers 20 years ago who thought Obama was born in Kenya. Im sorry you dont have as much room to criticize birthers anymore. Its not our fault. Are you trying to say that Donald Trump went back in time to 1995 and put a gun to that literary agent's head and forced him to say that Obama was born in Kenya?
Are you a lobbyist ??? WTF