There have been at least 5 articles referenced in this thread that call him "Kenyan-born". Interestingly, several of these articles have been scrubbed after the fact, which has also been demonstrated conclusively. The articles are all from reputable news organization, such as The Telaegraph (UK). Some date from 2004 and others date from 2006.
Occam's razor suggests that the truth is that Obama was born in Kenya, and that Obama has been actively trying to "correct" this fact in all of the major media. This is the same case of the alleged COLB, which they had to post many versions until they got one that looked even quasi-legitimate. If you check out democratic-aligned sites, you will find that they have offered a "Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator," which is indicative of their efforts to continually generate false and misleading documents.
Before you make any more silly assertions, I recommend that you familiarize yourself completely with the "long thread" ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306351/posts ). Only after you have mastered the subject matter there should you even consider any further posts.
Despite your accusations to the contrary, I have read the thread. And I'll summarize these "5 articles" you mention:
- an unbylined June 2004 article in the East African Standard.
- a March 2006 headline to a wire item from the East African Standard in a BBC publication.
- an unbylined, undated news item in Africa Travel Magazine, sometime in 2006.
- a October 2006 article by Alex Massie in the Telegraph.
- and a June 2008 headline in the USAfricaOnline newspaper.
There's also the January 2006 Honolulu Advertiser article by Will Hoover that says he was born in Indonesia, but that doesn't really bolster the 'born in Kenya' argument.
So the "5 articles" include 2 "articles" that only mention "Kenyan-born" in the headline, 2 that were unbylined, and the Telegraph one. One's an online-only newspaper and one's a travel magazine. It's two African publications, one African-written-and-themed publication, and two English ones, all five of course covering an American politician.
Interestingly, several of these articles have been scrubbed after the fact, which has also been demonstrated conclusively.
Presumably the error was brought to their attention, and they corrected the mistake. That's what newspapers do with their online editions. A lot. (The East African Standard appears to have simply lost much of his archives completely.)
When an old article (like the Honolulu Advertiser) is found to still include an inaccurate statement, it seems that it's usually asked why the error *wasn't* changed. Is it also suspicious when it *was* corrected?
Occam's razor suggests that the truth is that Obama was born in Kenya, and that Obama has been actively trying to "correct" this fact in all of the major media.
So your version of Occam's Razor suggests that a handful of random foreign reporters (all but one unnamed and unbylined) somehow stumbled upon the real truth about an American politician's birthplace that he'd been lying about for forty-plus years, and all just casually mentioned it in headlines and whatnot, while meanwhile all of America was fooled?
This is the same case of the alleged COLB, which they had to post many versions until they got one that looked even quasi-legitimate.
Urban myth. There aren't multiple versions of the COLB, unless you count differences in size and image resolution.