Good points. I don’t know. That was my feeling about the born in Kenya. I sure he got a lot of mileage out of it with black people. I bet he was officially American to go to Harvard law. It is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in some big big money how he got in there with nothing to show for himself. So anything re Harvard would HAVE TO have him born in Hawaii or he wouldn’t be American like he told,the school and maybe that would negate his degree?
And I might feel that the "born in Kenya" was some conscious attempt (by Obama) to make his profile seem a bit more exotic were it not for 1) national media reporting the year or so prior that he was born in Hawaii (and the source for that had to be Obama) and 2) the "born in Kenya" being omitted from the "Dreams" book text and the book dust jacket, showing up only on a pamphlet the agency put out where Obama's bio was one of about 90 such bios that were sent just to a relatively small set of publishers.
So, yes, taking all this into account, the "born in Kenya" appears to be an error on account of it not being part of something warranting close checking.