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<<”More than 60% think Obama was born in a foreign country”>>

What’s forgotten is that when Obama was a younger man, trying to get his book together, His literary agent put out an intro to the new author (obama) stating that he was born in Kenya.

I don’t believe he was born in Kenya, but I do believe he lied about his origins to make him seem a little more “exotic” and “interesting” to readers who might see themselves as “global citizens.” Obama has never made any correction of that specific record. And from that original dishonest claim, the whole “birther” controversy grew.

Here’s the Snopes “urban legend” skeptic site saying the literary agent’s blurb did in fact happen:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp

[Nero Germanicus]

More than a year before the Publisher’s pamphlet was written. Obama was interviewed in major newspapers when he became President of Volume of the Harvard Law Review.
Articles published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune from 1990 all said that he was born in Hawaii.
For example: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html

[Menehune56]

Here's the Snopes explanation of this innocent little mistake:

Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients. "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," Goderich wrote. "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."

The obvious question is where did the "facts" come from that this woman was checking, if not from Obama? The only person who can explain this IS OBAMA!