Maybe a bit snarky. I generally try to avoid that, but I admit I sometimes get a bit lightheaded after I've been laughing hard like this. Each go-round just makes it worse.
The idea that the agency would dare to advertise Obama as Kenyan born without his permission, much less without his knowledge, is beyond absurd.
Oh, I think the agent fully believed the information came from Obama; it's just that I think the agent got the notes wrong or perhaps (as 4Zoltan has suggested) conflated "born of a father from Kenya" into "born in Kenya." Likewise, the NYT article the year prior had Obama as moving to Indonesia about the age his parents divorced rather than about the age his mother remarried. Mistakes happen. And the agent has admitted that.
They don’t describe a Journey that begins in Kenya and ends in Harvard without their client’s complicity.
Another view, the one I put into my prior post which you ignored as usual, is that the bio wasn't something anyone was much focused on as opposed to the actual book (which says nothing about being born in Kenya).
The more you argue that it all happened without pure, honest, innocent Obama’s knowledge the dumber you sound.
My analysis accounts for all the relevant data, including the 1990 Harvard Law Review articles which reported Obama was born in Hawaii.
Everyone here is wondering how you account for those.
PS: You keep confusing Journeys with Dreams.
Insofar as they were different in concept, the former was discarded and the latter the one actually written and published to the general public. And the one published to the general public says nothing about "born in Kenya."
Notice just how stupid and incompetent Acton & Dystel have to be for your scenario to work. Too stupid to ask Obama where he was born. To stupid and incompetent to discuss with him the book described in the bio/book promo they themselves published. Too stupid and incompetent to differentiate between Obama and his father. Too incompetent to allow Obama to read his own promo blurb. Too incompetent to figure out the easiest way of fact-checking their facts re: Obama. Too stupid and incompetent to even be in business. The list goes on.
Here’s a little something from veteran journalist Howie Carr, who’s published a few books in his day:
‘Howie Carr: Obama is the one who put on the sell sheet for his first book that he was born in Kenya. Not Birthers. That is a incontrovertible fact! People suspect he continued to say he was born in Kenya when he applied to college. Very simple way to answer these questions once and for all is for Obama to release all his college applications.’
Howie knows how this process works. Plus he hasn’t drunk so much Obot Kook Aid that he’s obliged to sound like a moron. He can speak the obvious. Listen & weep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5EG7hI_GQ&feature=youtu.be
I’m sorry, btw, that you can’t grasp the difference between Journeys in Black and White and Dreams. Too much Kool Aid atrophies the brain...evidently.