Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack Obama’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com [1] — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya — set my old mystery writer mind ablaze.Posted on 05/18/2012 6:03:06 AM PDT by smoothsailing
May 18, 2012
Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack Obama’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com [1] — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya — set my old mystery writer mind ablaze.
How could that be? Why would they think such a thing?
There are only two forks in this road — either he was born in Kenya or he wasn’t.
I have never been a conspiracy theorist and will assume the latter, although I have to confess that for the first time, given this revelation, I have the tiniest soupçon of doubt.
Nevertheless, the more interesting, and actually frightening and depressing, conclusion is the former. So what if he was born in Kenya? At least we know why he lied about it. He wanted to be president.
But why did Obama’s agents think he was born in Kenya? That’s a more interesting question. (Obama, of course, is a liar either way.)
I will leave aside for the moment the question of whether he vetted the agent’s material himself. As the author of eleven published books and seven produced feature films, I have had plenty of dealings with agents and publicity people and always looked over the bios they had written about me. Every author I ever talked to about it always did too. We’re those kind of egotists. But I have no way of proving that Obama did — although I would faint if he hadn’t.
But whatever he did, the question remains. Why did they put “Born in Kenya” in his bio and leave it there until 2007? The latter part of that question can of course be ascribed to normal human sloth, but the first part — there’s the rub.
Here are the explanations I can think of:
There is one other possibility. The agents simply made up the place of Obama’s birth, but I have never in all my life heard of a literary agent doing such a thing. It’s possible I suppose, but hardly likely. And why?
Anyway, per Occam’s Razor, I am going with the obvious — the agent’s source for Obama’s birthplace was… Barack Obama.
But again why? Why would he lie about where he was born?
Well, he might have wanted to glamorize his past, but if that’s so, it’s pathetic. I suspected there was a more substantive reason, one that would cause him to leave his African birth place in place in the bio. But to take the risk of being found out, it would have to be strong.
My wife Sheryl and I, like Nick and Nora Charles, discussed it over gimlets this evening. We both agreed the mystery lay somewhere in Obama’s college and university years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. We knew, as you do, there must be an explanation for why the court eunuchs of the mainstream media have never bothered even to investigate the scholastic career of the most powerful person in the world.
Because Obama got bad grades? Yawn — so did Bush, Kerry, Biden, Ted Kennedy, and dozens of others who later found themselves making life or death decisions over our lives.
No, it had to be something more significant, more potentially dangerous. What if, we thought, as others have suggested, the reason Obama’s school records have not surfaced is that he enrolled, at one of those institutions at least, as a foreign student — a Kenyan?
But why would he choose to do that? Well, maybe for a grant, a subvention, a scholarship that was available uniquely to students from Africa or similar locales.
Yes, I know that’s not “fair,” in the lexicon of the Lord of Fairness, to have adopted a phony identity and deprived others of an opportunity they may have more richly deserved. But it would certainly fit with Obama’s early need to be recognized as a Kenyan by his agent and, presumably, his publisher. As we all know, it’s not the crime, but the cover-up. (In this case, actually, it’s both.)
As time went on, of course, college drifted away and politics reared its head. The Kenyan identity became less necessary, even a liability, so it was dropped.
I don’t know about you — but this makes sense to me. It also fits with the tomb-like silence around his college years.
But I could be wrong. After all, I am only a mystery writer and, worse yet, a screenwriter. The professional investigative journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times will no doubt dig deep and give us the true explanation.
But if they don’t, and I know you’re skeptical, we have to keep pushing, every one of us. We must learn the truth of this. We owe it to Andrew B. — and to our country.
Article printed from Roger L. Simon: http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon
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[1] Breitbart.com: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
[2] Shutterstock.com: http://www.shutterstock.com
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Or, he told the truth and is NOW LYING!
Third possibility, He is lying both times, because he's really an Indonesian.
Just like Pocahontus Warren in MA.
I was in Kenya during the Obama election campaign, I was in a hotel in Isolo, near Meru, Kenya...when his cousin came to campaign. All the folks in Kenya said they knew he was born in Kenya.
I agree with you. Believing obama lied to get a grant is what they want us to believe. So, I’m not falling for it.
Bill Clinton proved that it’s okay for a president to lie for his own personal gain or to protect himself. They’ll say “It was such a little lie and it happened a long time ago.” And if it gets really hot obama will pay back the grants and tuition.
Then Romney will admit that he got a grant he shouldn’t have gotten and so will mccain and W and Clinton and it will end with “We need to look forward and go to work and fix what’s wrong with this country”, completely ignoring the fact that what’s wrong with this country is obama, Romney, mccain, W, Clinton and ......
This does have the ring of truth. The two questions most people can easily answer without it being “complicated” are: 1. What is your name? and 2. Where were you born? Obama seems to have multiple answers for both of these questions.
So, ZerO, you were either born in Kenya and you lied about being born in Hawaii, or you were born in Hawaii and lied about being born in Kenya. Which is it?
“Obama fraudulently claimed his Kenyan roots to gain an advantage in college admissions and ‘diversity’ cred on campus.”- S
That conclusion overlooks a set of stubborn facts. Namely, Obama refuses to submit his paper LFCOLB to any court. Further there are *many* experts that have shown flaws in the PDF LFCOLB posted by Obama on the WH.gov site. These flaws all point to a forgery.
His SS number and draft registration forms also have likely been forged.
All of those items would be squeaky clean if your conclusion of lying to get a scholarship is correct.
I disagree with your conclusion.
“Obama fraudulently claimed his Kenyan roots to gain an advantage in college admissions and ‘diversity’ cred on campus.”- S
That conclusion overlooks a set of stubborn facts. Namely, Obama refuses to submit his paper LFCOLB to any court. Further there are *many* experts that have shown flaws in the PDF LFCOLB posted by Obama on the WH.gov site. These flaws all point to a forgery.
His SS number and draft registration forms also have likely been forged.
All of those items would be squeaky clean if your conclusion of lying to get a scholarship is correct.
I disagree with your conclusion.
“Obama fraudulently claimed his Kenyan roots to gain an advantage in college admissions and ‘diversity’ cred on campus.”- S
That conclusion overlooks a set of stubborn facts. Namely, Obama refuses to submit his paper LFCOLB to any court. Further there are *many* experts that have shown flaws in the PDF LFCOLB posted by Obama on the WH.gov site. These flaws all point to a forgery.
His SS number and draft registration forms also have likely been forged.
All of those items would be squeaky clean if your conclusion of lying to get a scholarship is correct.
I disagree with your conclusion.
Wasn’t there a news article several years ago, since found only in cache that called him “Kenyan-born”?
What a peas of sh!t Fraud Hussein is.
Even if Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had been birthed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House Obama is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
The DNC is in the hands of the socialists. The methodology is to state the lie and commit to the coverup. We've seen it time-and-time-again. I have no idea whether he was born in Kenya or Hawaii, though I lean toward Kenya. If not, it would have been easy for him to release the original certificate. But to put faith in the DNC insuring the legitimacy of Obama doesn't wash.
” In a bold power move he announces “Yes! Yes! Obama was born in Kenya. What’s more I can show you just how the birth certificate was forged. I am the true President. Obama is a fraud!” Things could get interesting.”
Of course, the Obama folks would simply announce that Slow Joe was insane. In light of the overwhelming evidence accumulated over the years that could be adduced in support of this hypothesis about Joe’s mental balance, the story would quickly evaporate.
Absolutely right. And we can't forget the pathetic performance of the establishment GOP in refusing to investigate serious questions about the legitimacy of the Obama candidacy. In fact, they cheerfully took part in ruthlessly suppressing this issue.
“If CNN wanted to boost their disastrous ratings, maybe they could do an investigation into this matter.”
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What? The Commie News Network dump on one of their own? Get real.
I have no idea where Obumbo was born, but their is OBVIOUSLY
a very serious problem with the Hawaii birth story and records.
If he were born at Kapiolani, why does he not have them release that info?
Why does the state keep releasing birth certificates that are obvious frauds?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skV3D9PS2Hg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLzJz2A2N1c
The first lady Michelle Obama blames “homophobia” for STD prevalance, and admits that Obama is from Kenya.
this is exactly what my wife and I surmised yesterday. He embellished his past to get some box checked off and it gave him access a normal drug using c-student would never get.
This is an emerging pattern with leftists, they need to lie to get ahead because they don’t have the qualifications.
And Congress couldn't just open an investigation and subpoena them, and that under threat of pulled Federal financing, loans, and other college price supports, why?
Seems like fish #2 for Darrell Issa to fry in addition to Holder and the "Fast 'n' Furious" mess.
FReegards!
Whether or not it’s true, they had plenty of time to correct it.
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