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The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth
PJ Media ^ | 5-18-2012 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 05/18/2012 6:03:06 AM PDT by smoothsailing

May 18, 2012

The Mystery of the Kenyan Birth

Roger L. Simon

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:

  1. Obama told them.
  2. It was in some early draft of Obama’s abandoned book (Journeys in Black and White) he submitted to them.
  3. Obama wrote it in his book proposal to them.
  4. Obama told them in a query letter.
  5. Obama answered one of those biographical forms.
  6. … Well, I’m running out because they all amount to the same thing.

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.

(Illustration based on a modified Shutterstock.com [2] image.)

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Hawaii; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: actonanddystel; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; dystel; eligibility; fraud; hawaii; illinois; indonesia; janedystel; kenya; liar; naturalborncitizen; obama; usurper
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To: skeeter

I’ll go with his grandmother and family who said he was born there and is so documented with a monument. How else does he get a passport to Pakistan and why carry this charade until 2007?


61 posted on 05/18/2012 7:06:44 AM PDT by mcshot (God bless the USA!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Well, he certainly governs like he’s from the Third World.

Since that is fraud, NOW can we toss the crook in jail?


62 posted on 05/18/2012 7:08:19 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: MrB
Don’t you know it’s a test of true intellect to be able to accept that two contradictory facts are both true?

I keep forgetting that I learned that lesson in movie and a book from long ago.


63 posted on 05/18/2012 7:08:50 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: smoothsailing

What’s the difference between former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson and Barack Hussein 0bama?

Thompson was forced to resign after it was discovered he had padded his resume’ and lied about his credentials.

0bama is still in the White House as of this morning, usurping that which is not lawfully his.

I am amazed at the number of people who want to justify or at least provide an easy out for the Kenyan fraud, since 20 January 2009, that effin douchebag has conducted himself as someone who has no respect whatsoever for our Constitution, nor for the law.

Is it beginning to dawn on some of the naive and deluded souls WHY he has behaved in such a fashion?

THINK people, THINK.

“Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked”
~ the late Johnny Cash in ‘The Farmers Almanac’


64 posted on 05/18/2012 7:11:13 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: RoosterRedux

O’bummer may use recent CEO busts of their padded resumes to justify his lies...
They do it on Wall Street so why can’t I?


65 posted on 05/18/2012 7:11:56 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: smoothsailing

I think he probably went to Occidental College on an Indonesian foreign student scholarship that was procured for him by his stepfather Lolo Soetoro. Barry had Indonesian citizenship as a child and that alone would have kept him out of the Whitehouse even if he was born in Hawaii.


66 posted on 05/18/2012 7:12:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: IrishPennant

Felt the same when I saw this on Drudge this AM.
Anything to put doubt in the public’s mind and keep this poseur on the ropes...
Kenya...the gift that keeps on giving....


67 posted on 05/18/2012 7:14:14 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Iron Munro; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...


New photo of Baby Barack!
68 posted on 05/18/2012 7:14:50 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: smoothsailing
But isn't Obama 1/32nd Kenyan?

Oh, wait. Different liberal liar.

69 posted on 05/18/2012 7:15:08 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Yardstick
Literary Agent Responds to ‘Born in Kenya’ Obama Bio: ‘Nothing More Than a Fact Checking Error’
70 posted on 05/18/2012 7:16:36 AM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: DrC

Correct....Biden will be “Walpin’d”.


71 posted on 05/18/2012 7:18:59 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: mkjessup

“I am amazed at the number of people who want to justify or at least provide an easy out for the Kenyan fraud, since 20 January 2009, that effin douchebag has conducted himself as someone who has no respect whatsoever for our Constitution, nor for the law.”

Hard to believe how many are HERE.


72 posted on 05/18/2012 7:20:19 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: SaraJohnson
Also, Arizonia’s SOS wants the documentation from Hawaii in order for Obama to get on the ballot.

I had not heard that. Do you have a source link?

73 posted on 05/18/2012 7:20:46 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: smoothsailing
While "labels" are not my thing, it seems that being called a "birther" is something to be ashamed of...

That could be interpreted as an Alinsky tactic to cast shame and ridicule on anyone who dares to talk about this questionable situation.

The Constitution sets forth the requirement for holding the office of President, but according to the labelers, no one can even question the adherence to those Constitutional requirements without being scorned?

So much for the First Amendment.

If there is smoke, there's probably fire...and there is a LOT of smoke in this situation.

We have not only the Constitutional right to ask questions...but the DUTY as well.
74 posted on 05/18/2012 7:22:41 AM PDT by FrankR
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To: Sgt_Schultze

And...it nails down the “African” in his claim to be African-American (since he isn’t of slave descent...you know...down with the struggle).


75 posted on 05/18/2012 7:22:48 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

There is no doubt in my mind that this issue attracts both individual and organized hard left posters that try multiple tactics to bury, discredit, and take this issue off-track.

There is at least one site dedicated to organizing opposition to seeking the truth about Obama’s birth, documentation, and the definition of a natural born citizen.


76 posted on 05/18/2012 7:23:35 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Marko413

:: I do believe he is a natural born citizen. ::

He’s not. That said, I’ve come to the conclusion that the courts see his winning the POTUS as having “automatically” conferred NBC on him.


77 posted on 05/18/2012 7:27:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

A couple hours old....

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/05/18/ariz-secretary-state-threatens-remove-obama-ballot/


78 posted on 05/18/2012 7:27:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: glennaro; Marko413

There is no doubt Obama is a “US citizen” — that’s not at issue. What remains open to serious discussion is whether, as the Constitution requires, he is a natural-born citizen ... a profound difference.

Marko413 is pretty sure. . . Well that settles it then. Being a US citizen isn’t good enough, as you say,

When will some of these folks read Article 2 Sect 1?


79 posted on 05/18/2012 7:30:20 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: InterceptPoint
- Add to fact list of Occum's Razor.. Obama seems to have an alliance with Kenya, involved in their elections and sending millions in US tax dollars
80 posted on 05/18/2012 7:30:35 AM PDT by opentalk
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