[edge919]

The Duckworth comment was a mistake later retracted by that Newspaper.

The reporter CLAIMS it was his mistake and that he "found" the information about Obama being born on the Internet. But this doesn't exactly add up because everthing else in the story was based on his interview with Tammy Duckworth. Why would a reporter create a fact based on a comment made by the subject of the interview. My bet is that Obama told this to Tammy Duckworth or that maybe she misunderstood that he lived there and was not born there. I know they retracted it, but the explanation just doesn't add up.

[DiogenesLamp]

The reporter CLAIMS it was his mistake and that he "found" the information about Obama being born on the Internet. But this doesn't exactly add up because everthing else in the story was based on his interview with Tammy Duckworth. Why would a reporter create a fact based on a comment made by the subject of the interview. My bet is that Obama told this to Tammy Duckworth or that maybe she misunderstood that he lived there and was not born there. I know they retracted it, but the explanation just doesn't add up.

If it had further corroboration then it might invite more scrutiny. I know Chris Matthews repeated the claim that Obama was born in Indonesia (Dec 18, 2007 I think.) but this might be just confusion as you describe above, caused by not understanding something Obama said correctly.

My recollection is that prior to 2006, I kept hearing that Obama was born in Kenya. The timeline and logistics of it just don't work.