The author bio is what I was originally discussing on this thread. I broached the topic. You Obama-defenders are the ones who keep trying to change it.
I do believe the author bio is dispositive. Acton & Dystel wouldn’t have used it as a prime marketing/selling hook w’out Obama’s knowledge & approval. There are alternate explanations for many of the contradictions in Obama’s shady history. But this bio from his own agents is unique. It represents a point in time when Obama accepted big bucks for writing a born-in-Kenya bio. He wasn’t dabbling in fraud. For once in his life he was dabbling in the truth.
And it's the only thing you will discuss, apparently.
You . . . are the ones who keep trying to change it.
Not change, so much as discuss the bio in the context of other evidence that exists.
I do believe the author bio is dispositive.
No surprise there. When you've only got one argument to make, you're reduced to doing what you're doing here: keep asserting that one point while diligently trying to ignore the mass of counter-evidence being brought in to crush your argument. You try to make the claim Obama was not born in Hawaii and hold up the agency bio as your "Exhibit A." Then you pretty much have to rest your case.
The anti-Birther case then is presented: which has Exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H (the COLB, the LFBC, the 3 verifications done to State SoS's, the statements by two Governors of Hawaii), Exhibits I and J (the birth announcements), Exhibit K (Obama Sr. INS files), Exhibit L (the Indonesian school application), Exhibits M, N, and O (the Times, Post and Tribune articles), plus several other things that I just can't keep track of by memory.
But, oh, of course, Fantasywriter, true to the name, declares the agency bio "dispositive." In your alternative reality, one isolated statement done by someone not previously connected with Obama's life at all trumps all this other evidence (familial, official, and more historical).
Nice try.
I forgot to say that my explanation for the author bio is that Obama wrote it, longing to be more “African.” As a teen he was longing to be part of and accepted by the American black community. And back then, all things African were REVERED by blacks. Check out old issues of Essence. Look at people in big American cities walking around in dashikis, changing their names from Steve to Ali. He had this wonderful in, legitimately being half African. Being born in Canada wasn’t as exotic. Can you imagine the doors that opened, with his smooth talk, and saying he was from Kenya? He was a successful community organizer with that precious fact. Do you think he brought up his white family ever?