Why Barack Obama listed his birthplace as Kenya

Doug Ross@Journal ^ | 5/19/12 | Doug Ross

[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?

[pookie18]

You asked how to reach him & I told you. Hope you make use of it.

[x]

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.

So affirmative action just up and died thirty or so years ago? Why don't I remember that?

Probably because Bakke didn't actually change anything. So far as I can figure out, the decision made some sharp observations about formalized quotas, but left vague, generalized racial preferences in place.

A lot of the enthusiasm for foreign students came later, when colleges realized that wealthy foreigners could and would pay full tuition. There may have been some scrambling in colleges in 1978 about what Bakke would mean and what to do about it, but I don't remember any great push to get foreign students.

The Kenyan thing did help Obama. Being the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review (president being something different from the editor?) may be a feather in someone's cap, but it wouldn't get a book contract. It was the whole mixed-race/foreign angle, the Kenya-Kansas thing (even though Kansas wasn't really relevant) that made Obama sellable in the publishing world (even when he didn't have experience writing for publication). Somewhere along the line things got garbled, as they did when they called Obama Sr. the Kenyan Finance Minister.

[Ladysforest]

Hey - have you read the person who claims to have an actual 8/14/1961 Honolulu Star Bulletin?

[Smokeyblue]

"A COLB and a Birth Certificate are the same thing, but some refuse to believe it or provide evidence otherwise. We look silly when we keep screaming for the “long form birth certificate.”

You are about two or three years late for the conversation, the band has moved on. There were endless threads about it. Go look them up.

It's strange to me that your focus is on those who want facts. Legal documents that are certified and attested to by a real human being with a name and legal, governmental authority.

Especially, since these "supposed documents" have been made public negating all privacy laws.

Hawaii has repeatedly refused to do that. There has never been a piece of paper (Long, Short, Abstract or not) that has been verified by Hawaii.

There are only computer files with no provenance and a myraid of defiiencies (to put it mildly).

Why are you complaining about those who ask for proof rather than focusing on those who are trying to pass off manipulated computer files as representing a scanned pieces of paper which are clearly not what they are purported to be?

You want to argue about the differences between a COLB, LONG, and Abstract forms when NONE have been released. Only computer files have been released.

Arizona is NOT EVEN asking for a piece of paper. They are ONLY asking for a verification BY E-MAIL, no less, that the information released by way of computer files is even accurate and HAWAII is stonewalling.

Don't you find that amazing?

[Greenperson]

We know that she had a passport application before 1965 and they will not release any information about those records. You’re right. Very suspicious.

We also know that the entry records for the first week of August 1961 were disappeared from the microfilms at the National Archives. Very suspicious.

Then there’s the record that one Kenyan arrived in the US within that timeframe.

We’re all supposed to believe that these are just coincidences.

All the lost records; school records eaten by bugs or destroyed by fire; mistakes made but never corrected by clerks at the Social Security Administration, causing him to have a Connecticut SS#; mistakes made about his birth place, for over 16 years and by his own publicist; TWO certification stamps broken or defective. Count them: TWO!

The one at the post office, where he supposedly registered for the draft in 1980 was missing the “19”. Then the stamp that recently allegedly certified his long-form birth certificate misspelled the word “the” as “txe.” Yet nobody at the Dept. of Health in Hawaii noticed that the vendor sent them a stamp with a misspelled word, which makes the stamp UNOFFICIAL, because the wording of the certification is set by law.

Such a bunch of incompetents surrounding this person throughout life. Nobody’s perfect except Obama.

[Smokeyblue]

“The Obama life history is full of blind-alleys, mazes, landmines, disinformation, misinformation, wishful thinking and purposeful deception.”

- Freeper MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I’ve given up trying to figure out what exactly is true about O’Dumbo so I’m just going to wait for the movie. LOL

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for the pings and info. It is unraveling, thanks to all the heroes and heroines doing the research, at no insignificant cost of time, money and safety. And what to speak of the harassment, here and elsewhere.

[Smokeyblue]

"A COLB and a Birth Certificate are the same thing, but some refuse to believe it or provide evidence otherwise."

First of all, we don't have to provide ****. That is incumbent upon either the DNC or Obama, with Hawaii being able to verify it.

Secondly, did you even watch Sheriff Joe and the Cold Case Posse's press conference?

There is EVIDENCE that the whatever you want to call it (LONG, SHORT, ABSTRACT) is none of the above.

So you are the one not believing.

[little jeremiah]

I don’t know where you came from, but you are harassing and insulting people who know what they are talking about. IF you had any desire to learn about the real background of the guy in the White House, FR is one of the best places to learn. If you want to crap in the punchbowl, you will be called on it. And so far, that is what you are doing.

Are you a hireling of the leftists or just a volunteer fool, those are the only two options I can see.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - I hope this doesn’t just make things too complicated. - - - “

NEVER! Your explanations are always very thorough, and thus sheds light on the truth.

What is complicated is the interlocking nest of lies that spews forth from the orifices of those that promote and defend Obamanation.

Your work in fighting lies and documenting truth makes all true Freepers proud to be working with you!

[randita]

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I don’t think the Clintons were behind any of the Obama shenanigans.

I was just trying to draw a parallel between all the so-called smoking guns that were going to bring the Clintons to ruin which ended up being duds and the many smoking guns that are going to bring down Obama.

I firmly believe the Clintons purposefully left the bread crumbs out there for people to sniff along that always led to dead ends. They were always feeding crap to the NY Times to get people all in a lather, then fizzle, fizzle, fizzle.

My point is that I believe the Obama team is using the same tactics and deriving great sport from it.

[Ladysforest]

MY BAD! The blogger isn’t claiming to HAVE POSSESSION of the actual 1961 newspaper,

He claims that he was in a big library and just sort of nonchalantly curious, requested the actual old copy of the 1961 Star Bulletin, and right before his eyes was obama’s announcement. His claim is that he did this back in 2008, in Oct.

Never heard it before today. He won’t say where the library is because he “had to sign his real name” to view the archived newspaper. Ummmm

[Fred Nerks]

The entire Omar story is here:

http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/onyango-obama-uncle-omar-reappears/

Just when he arrived isn’t documented. The arrivals into the US from foreign countries which I posted upthread are dated from 1 July 1961 through to 30 June, 1962.
The kenyan left Hawaii June 22, 1962.

If that one lone person on the list wasn’t Omar, I certainly can’t imagine it being baby zero, can you?

[butterdezillion]

No, I haven’t. Would love to hear more.

[butterdezillion]

Thanks. Do you have a link to his claims?

The only place that even claimed to have the actual paper copies was the Bishop Library in Honolulu.

The Star Bulletin is the one where they had a Prius Chat poster and “Koa” (from Texas Darlin’ Blog) who both claimed to go into the Hawaii State Library and just happened to see Obama’s birth announcement and make a copy. But it turns out that they had identical copies (right down to the waviness of the edge on the individual scan) - and Michael Rivero was given the exact same scan from somebody at the Advertiser office.

So they’ve kinda worn out the whole “I just happened to wander in where there was a copy, I saw what nobody else has seen and which would have made the big-time news, but I was too scared to let anybody know I had seen it” type of story.

The way you did it is the only way to do it - with whole-page copies for anybody to see.

[Fred Nerks]

My response to your 7 is, their relationship was broken, that image is an attempt to make it appear as if the Dunhams still had a connection to zero in the early eighties. I think it's connected to zero finding his birth certificate as was written in 'Dreams' - and what he found was the birth certificate that belonged to BHO2 which showed the kenyan as father and Anna as mother, and a birthdate around January... From this might have arisen the story that his mother had died in 1970. That's what Madelyn told her relative in 1982. That's probably what the Dunhams told zero. That the reason he was living with them was his mother was dead. That's why he was living rough when he first arrived in New York. It's just conjecture, but the one person who would have told him who his parents were, was Frank Marshall Davis. We see nothing of zero with the Dunhams (Madelyn)until after he's married to Michelle...

But there IS one image of Stanley Ann Dunham with a group in what appears to be Central Park, and Boerner, the supposed flat-mate of zero is standing behind her.

I didn't crop Siddiqi from the image, this is how I found it, and Boerner's story is that he was the flatmate.

[Ladysforest]

I PM’s you the link. Go softly.

I checked with the Bishop years back - they claimed they didn’t have it.

[Ladysforest]

Cripes! How did that little dinky guy get to towering over obama? Was he 12 when he went to collage? Am I missing something? LOL

[Fred Nerks]

That story reminds me of this one:

“Pamela,
Infidel Granny here. I am the woman who sent you the birth announcement from the Honolulu Advertiser in July 2008. You gave me a hat tip on July 23, 2008.
I sure hope you don’t think I had anything to do with a forgery.
The woman I spoke to at the Advertiser suggested I contact the Hawaii State Librbary for the info. That’s where I got it from just as it states in the blog on July 23. The librarian stated another woman had asked for the same thing about one week before I did.
You might still have my email and phone number. Feel free to contact me if you like.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2040486/posts?page=8014#8014

[butterdezillion]

Great sport?

Forgery, identity fraud, tax fraud, social security fraud, document fraud, obstruction of justice, violation of the Federal General False Statement Act, bribery, and threats are not any sane person’s version of “great sport”.

And pissing on the US Constitution and all the military folks who have actually fought to preserve it is as sick as laughingly sticking a fork in a dead baby.

I’ve waited for you to explain why the HDOH, Selective Service, NARA, Passport Office, and Social Security Administration have all apparently engaged in fraud. I showed specifically how the HDOH altered their 1960-64 birth index, database, and at least 2 individuals’ BC#’s. I’ve given details about the kinds of evidence we have that the newspaper microfilms were tampered with. That’s not supposed to be stuff that any President - no matter how putridly sick - is even ABLE to mess with.

So if Obama has genuine records for all these things, then why did he commit these crimes instead of simply showing the genuine records? Why did these agencies all bend over backwards to break laws and rules on his behalf, rather than simply make the required disclosures and obey their own laws and rules?

If Barack Obama and his handlers think it would be really cool to “distract” people by turning our whole government into a lawless banana republic while pissing on our Constitution and the people who have truly defended it.... then it’s way past time that we the people tell these putrescent bags of pus exactly what we think of them and their contempt for everything we hold dear.

Our military people have sacrificed EVERYTHING to defend this country and her Constitution. Politics is a grisly sport, but about the time the scum in DC start flipping off and dragging through the streets in mocking contempt the love of country shown by the best among us.... is about the time I come out fists swinging. No more nice girl.

If Obama did this to make mocking sport of all we hold dear, that is literally a declaration of war. And if war is what he wants then by gosh he’s going to get it. Every vote on every ballot will be a shot fired right through his cold, selfish, disgusting heart.

In honor of Seal Team Six. We got your back.