President Obama Is Kenyan-Born, Literary Bio States

This birther business never seems to end. Now, a brochure from President Barack Obama's former book agent has been released online, touting the Harvard law student as being "born in Kenya."

The literary agency, Acton & Dystel, is reputable, and the 1991 promotional booklet was authenticated, so what should the public make of all this? The president didn't pen the content for this booklet, but he must have been consulted. Did he ignore the error because it made his back story seem more interesting?

Acton & Dystel produced the pamphlet, containing blurbs about their authors, to distribute to colleagues in the publishing industry.

In the booklet, there is a photo and caption about the young president of the Harvard Law Review, who at the time was advancing a book tentatively titled Journeys in Black and White. Obama, the pamphlet states, was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

It's possible the Harvard University student claimed to be born in Kenya because a multicultural background has a certain cachet in the halls of the Ivy League. Look at Elizabeth Warren. She pretended to be Native American for 15 years, just to be accepted by her peers in the Harvard faculty lounge.

More likely, however, the agent made a simple mistake, and Obama never bothered to correct it. But, why is this brochure being released now, after all this time has passed?

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Paul M. May 17, 2012, 8:07pm UTC

Fortunately a line from 20 years ago on a pamphlet doesn't count as proof of citizenship.

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Jeff H. May 17, 2012, 8:42pm UTC

Somebody didn't get paid enough to keep their mouths shut.

Jeff H. May 17, 2012, 8:47pm UTC

I am sure that when it is found out who passed this buried nugget of info to Breitbart, a heart attack or some other weird accident is in the near future.

Rory M. May 17, 2012, 10:31pm UTC

Yeah, he's a mass murderer and a foreign born immigrant who managed to fool the entire system. Of course, to believe that you have to also believe that there is no process at all for verifying the eligibility of anyone running for president, that anyone at any time could have walked into the USA and become president.

What the birther loons want us all to believe is that Obama (and his family) are the greatest evil geniuses in all of history and/or the entire American nation is retarded and can be played for a patsy by any Tom, Dick or Harry.

Jeff H. May 18, 2012, 12:17am UTC

Rory, I just want to see his college records. Personally I think Obama is a compulsive liar that used being a forefinger when it suited him and ditched it when he wanted to become president. Yes, he is a privileged white boy with dark skin from a privileged school, in Hawaii and a Harvard education that nobody can explain how it was paid for. He then B.S.ed his way to the presidency.

Rory you ask how a country could be fooled into voting for an unknown idiot yet castigate every attempt to get info about who he REALLY is. Just because you are too dumb and naive to ask for the truth doesn't mean you are enlightened. Pull your head out of your ass and wipe the crap out of your eyes...

Rory M. May 18, 2012, 10:17am UTC

Jeff, you are asking me to believe that one can run for any office without proving eligibility. You have to register somewhere to be a candidate. There's a process, getting on the ballot doesn't just happen. Look at how much trouble third party candidates for president have in just getting on the ballot. Surely the USA has some department that oversees this stuff and a candidate would have to provide proof of citizenship to run for anything, and proof of birth in the USA to run for president. Before Obama was elected president I saw his birth certificate on-line, as well as the birth announcements in two Honolulu newspapers. This stuff was readily available to anyone with the ability to use Google.

You want to see his college records and all the birthers want to see his birth certificate. Which of the previous 43 presidents did you see these documents for? Which did you ask to see them for? What other than race identified Obama separately from those 43?

mmerlinn ?. May 18, 2012, 12:32pm UTC

With over 10,000 of these booklets having been printed, it is virtually impossible to keep them all under wraps forever. Sooner or later, a copy had to appear. It is just a question now as to when the next copy appears that further verifies the authenticity of the first one.

mmerlinn ?. May 18, 2012, 12:36pm UTC

Rory, none of the other Presidents actively tried to hide their past, so no one really cared about the details of that past. O acts as if he is trying to hide something, which encourages people to dig into his past.

John S. (arizona) May 18, 2012, 2:27pm UTC

Rory~ "Surely the USA has some department that oversees this stuff and a candidate would have to provide proof of citizenship to run for anything, and proof of birth in the USA to run for president."

No, there isn't... but there should be, as that is the root problem to this issue. The given political party is responsible to ensure their candidate meets the qualifications. What they do, what they use, or how they verify it is correct is not defined or open to public scrutiny. You basically take their word for it; if they really did anything at all.

mmerlinn ?. May 31, 2012, 11:52am UTC

The U.S. and the Constitution are based on people being honest whereas most countries assume that everyone is dishonest and write their laws accordingly. Neither the U.S. nor the Constitution works when dishonesty prevails. That in a nutshell is why we are losing our country.

Bring honesty back at all levels, and you don't need the TSA, you don't need to carry and present ID for anything, you don't need to vet candidates, and so on.

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Duane B. May 17, 2012, 10:35pm UTC

The question for me is it Harvard or the people they hire, but it sure seems of late there have been some very high profile people that are back tracking on what was reported about them when at Harvard. This with President Obama and the recent question of Elizabeth Warren Senate candidate being or not being 'native American'.

Is it Harvard that seems to promote the questionable 'facts' or is it the individual that they hire that seems to be promoting 'facts' that are later brought into question?

Rory M. May 18, 2012, 10:18am UTC

Human beings massage human systems to extract what is in their benefit from them. Some are less than honest about it. Nothing new about that.

Duane B. May 18, 2012, 11:26am UTC

Rory,

I agree that people will work the system for themselves, and some will are very selfish in the material benefits they seek or even for self engrandisment.

What this has made me wonder about is it stickly the individuals or is it some how the Harvard culture is drawing those type of people.

If it is what the Harvard culture is drawing then it could cause me to have a dufferent way to look at all Harvard graduates. And it may even cause a different consideration of those who left before graduation.

Is it Harvard or is the individual?

mmerlinn ?. May 18, 2012, 12:22pm UTC

It appears to me that Harvard condones (at best) or actively promotes (at worst) a culture of deceit therefore drawing in students vulnerable to manipulating the system. Honest students do not seem to apply, but if they do, then they either submit to the culture or leave.

Rory M. May 18, 2012, 1:10pm UTC

The bigger the prize the more people will try to game the system. Harvard is a big prize.

Duane B. May 18, 2012, 2:27pm UTC

Rory,

Harvard has been built in to a 'prize', but it would seem that they could control who they actually accept. Do they focus their acceptance on those who will strech things to achieve the 'Harvard prize'. Usinig Elizabeth Warren as an example did they do a background check that is expected by private (see what happen to the CEO was found to have exaggerated on his resume) or did they simply want the exaggerated 'native American' credits?

If it is the people Harvard selects then I am begining to believe it is Harvard and maybe everyone they select.

Duane B. May 18, 2012, 2:32pm UTC

mmwerlin,

If you are correct then should we begin to winder about those companies that hire the Harvard graduates? Should we begin to question people in power who bradish their Harvard degree?

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