[Drew68]

After all, if your first book is an exploration of racial identity and has the working title "Journeys In Black And White," being born in Hawaii doesn't really help. It's entirely irrelevant to the twin pillars of contemporary black grievance – American slavery and European imperialism. To 99.99 percent of people, Hawaii is a luxury vacation destination and nothing else.

Whereas Kenya puts you at the heart of what, in an otherwise notably orderly decolonization process by the British, was a bitter and violent struggle against the white man's rule. Cool! The composite chicks dig it, and the literary agents.

I agree with Steyn. I think Obama was lying about where he was born back in 1991 for the very reasons Steyn illustrates above.

I still believe Obama was born in Hawaii. I still believe the Kenyan birth conspiracy was absurd. But I now think that Obama himself was the first "birther" because it just wasn't cool for a revolutionary to have been born in Hawaii.

[9YearLurker]

I don’t know where he was born. I’d guess the Canadian theory is as good as any, particularly given the apparent lack of a record of his birth at any Hawaiian hospitals, including the one he has said he was born at.

Does your Hawaiian theory include specifics as to what if any hospital he was born at?

[hoosiermama]

SO, the question is:

Is he lying now or was he lying then?

[edge919]

Part of the problem is that being born in Kenya further removes Obama from being an “African-American” ... he wasn’t born to African-Americans and didn’t grow up in an African-American household. Being born in Kenya makes him African, but not American, so his only “Journeys” are in black.

[Save-the-Union]

Ok then, if after all this you now conclude that he was in fact born in Hawaii and later claimed his Kenyan birth to gain educational funding as a foreign student or some ivy league admission advantage, why would he later spend such a massive amount of money to prevent the release of his genuine long form Hawaiian birth certificate? AND then when forced, disclosed such a poorly forged document? My hunch is this..... He was first truthful about his birth place in Kenya and then years later, in order to appear eligible as a candidate for president, created a lie about being born Hawaii. But I could be wrong.... It is only a hunch.

[wintertime]

I still believe Obama was born in Hawaii. I still believe the Kenyan birth conspiracy was absurd.
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Do you believe in the Easter Bunny, too?

Well....There are inconsistencies here. Before getting on any state ballot it needs to be checked out thoroughly with certifiable evidence.