Reposted from Breitbart.com’s series “The Vetting.”
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):
I believe that Obama was born in Hawaii, and that he is a natural born citizen, and qualified to be President of the United States. If you believe that pamphlet, I have some oceanfront property in Yuma to sell you! If you want to beat Obama, you had better start making arguments about why Mitt Romney is going to be a lot better for the economy. Since neither of them ever did anything to create long lasting value (neither are engineers), that’s going to be pretty hard. Since Romney was actually in the value destruction business (outsourcing American jobs to China, and doesn’t believe in technical innovation (if he did, he would’ve been an engineer, now, wouldn’t he?)), it’s going to be a very hard sell.
Get busy.
I wonder if the creator of the headline and the writer of the SA blurb even read the linked article?
(I’m getting visions of that photograph from not so long ago that proclaimed definitive proof of Colleen Mathis entering Raul Grijalva’s office.)
When you do, you get relevant information like….”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 article writer lists the Obama biography information as “errant”.
I believe most people understand the meaning of that word.
They list their attempts to verify the information (typos and other errant information have made their way into countless publications) and were unable to do so. To hang your hat on this being PROOF of a fraud is ridiculous.
Interestingly, the Breitbart article is NOT about birthers and fake birth certificates. Indeed, the article is prefaced with a statement that reads quite the opposite. It claims to point out Obama manipulating his past to make it fit his means. While I don’t care for that, is there any politician for whom the same cannot be said?
It’s pretty sad when the actual intent of an article is so badly twisted to put a spin someone else wants on it. I assume the thought process here was that people will believe the headline and not bother clicking the link and informing themselves.
Romney – any GOP candidate – should be able to beat Obama without resorting to childish antics like this.
What did Romney have to do with this article? Nothing. One thing is clear, without question Obama saw this pamphlet and did NOTHING to correct it. So the author(s) of the pamphlet just pulled Obama’s birth in Kenya out of his ass? What is childish is Obamaites coming to a conservative website to make excuses or paint it as “antics.” But, this ‘tsk-tsk’ treatment will be a big hit over at Feathered A-Hole; why not give it a try there?
I’ve read many of your comments and it’s clear you’re not playing with a full deck.
To wit, “What did Romney have to do with this article? Nothing.”
No, he didn’t. But if the meaning of what I stated is lost on you, it’s certainly no surprise.
Did you read the Breitbart article or are you just running with the headline posted here?
Did you notice that Breitbart, when he was still walking the earth, believe Obama was born in Hawaii?
Did you notice the author of the column stated the Kenya information was errant?
Did you notice the author decried birtherism but focused on a more salient and reasonable topic?
Doubtful, as all it appears you are capable of doing is throwing childish, profane temper tantrums.
And you wonder why people think birthers are nuts.
I do not consider myself a “birther”; that is the left’s term – just like “tea bagger.” Most people throwing those terms around (yourself comes to mind) are sometimes guilty of a Freudian slip, especially when the are working covertly and pretending to be something they’re not.
Speaking of Freudian slip, here is a link to Michelle Obama referring to Kenya as Barrack’s “home country.” I suppose some “childish nut” did a voice-over just to fool all of us skeptics. As I stated, your over embelished tiraid about the release of the brochure would indicate your “home country” is at the NT. Why don’t you embark on a homecoming and stay there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7Rp_Ghv6k&feature=player_embedded
“Over embellished” is an understatement for the headline this blog gave to his article as PROOF of Obama being a FRAUD.
I noticed that whomever posted it managed to change the title from it’s original last night….
It would be easy to prove Obama’s citizenship, just dig up Frank Davis’ bones and do a DNA analysis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrrnkKmUzo
Seriously?
Shane, you debase yourself with this crap. I know you have more sense than this.
No, he doesn’t. This kind of baloney is why I became an independent.
Shane will defile himself to do the Party proud. Don’t expect anything less or more.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/18/Media-Refuses-Coverage-Obama-Kenya-Lit-Agency
I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that this article was posted on the same day that SoS Bennett publicly jumped on the birther bandwagon.
May 17, 2012
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake
Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency which describes the author as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:
“You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. 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. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/17/literary_agent_says_1991_booklet_was_a_mistake.html