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A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.
Designated as "True" on Snopes ^ | updated Sept 16, 2016 | by David Mikkelson

Posted on 09/16/2016 1:38:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Claim: A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2012]

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.

ORIGIN:In May 2012 the web site Breitbart published a copy of a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by the literary agency Acton & Dystel showcasing their roster of writers, among whom was a young man named Barack Obama. This booklet was of particular interest because it included a brief biographical sketch which described the future President as having been born in Kenya:


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birther; elections; kenyanborn; obama
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Comment #81 Removed by Moderator

To: DiogenesLamp

All highly likely. Add to that the fact that the National Archive documentation of foreign arrivals to HI was stolen/destroyed for the week of Obama’s supposed birth. Whose arrival in HI during that week was so damaging to the Obama narrative that the National Archives had to be vandalized.

Granny Dunham returning from Canada, most likely. It was customary for a mother to be on hand for her daughter’s first delivery, if at all possible, in those days. Expectant mothers were often sedated, and the baby delivered via forceps. Complications were not uncommon.


82 posted on 09/16/2016 4:29:24 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Will J Diamond
Sharon Rondeau of The Post and Email reports that Stanley Ann didn’t get to the state of Washington until September.

Perhaps that is so, but her document from the University says August 19. Perhaps that is the day she enrolled or something, but it doesn't really matter because her friend Susan Blake says she saw Stanley Ann in August.

http://theobamafile.com/_family/AnnaSusanBlake.htm

So does it matter if the baby was two weeks, three weeks, or even a month? It would still be too young to fly.

How did Stanley Ann get to Seattle from Hawaii with a 2 week- 1 month old baby?

83 posted on 09/16/2016 4:30:14 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yeah pretty much.

Except I believe Panama was a protectorate, subject to “US jurisdiction”. Eligible or not, McCain sucked way too much to serve as CIC.


84 posted on 09/16/2016 4:31:05 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Will J Diamond

Oh, so Maraniss confirms that Stanley Ann lived with the baby at the birth announcement address?

You either haven’t read the book or you’re lying.


85 posted on 09/16/2016 4:31:17 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
Then it came out that Dreams is cover-to-cover lies—but your website was never updated.

I'm throwing a flag. Newbies don't just show up and suddenly know where are the links to refute this stuff. Something smells a little bit Hooky if you ask me.

Since this is back in the news, Obama trolls have reason to come back out of the woodwork.

86 posted on 09/16/2016 4:34:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Will J Diamond

Look, you are an Obama shill posting on a conservative site. The burden is on you, if you want to make the case that Obama is a truthful and honest person. How about citing a non-lie from Dreams? If Obama is not a pathological liar, that shouldn’t be difficult. Go for it.


88 posted on 09/16/2016 4:35:00 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: DiogenesLamp

He’s an Obot troll,100%.


90 posted on 09/16/2016 4:36:13 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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91 posted on 09/16/2016 4:36:58 PM PDT by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: Will J Diamond; Fantasywriter
I must admit, that’s the first I’m hearing of that. I don’t even think Fantasywriter’s flights of fancy have soared that high!

If you've not witnessed an event for yourself or are not aware of the occurrence, it's a flight of fancy for someone who has seen what you didn't? That's odd reasoning.

Please ping a FReeper when you mention them, especially in a disparaging manner of posting.
92 posted on 09/16/2016 4:39:01 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: DiogenesLamp
Since this is back in the news, Obama trolls have reason to come back out of the woodwork.

Yes, if this is such a ho hum and fringe issue, why does O'muslim send out his pink-pantied key board 'warriors' to defend his 'legitimacy' or 'legacy'? /s

If there is a 'legacy', it's an anti-American 'legacy'. It's not like their hero wasn't caught red handed shipping cash to terrorist Iran or supporting the muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
95 posted on 09/16/2016 4:46:38 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I remember when Obama ran for Senator from Illinois. The MSM at that time was agog that a person “BORN IN KENYA” could run for Senator, showing how great America was!


96 posted on 09/16/2016 4:50:13 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Will J Diamond; Fantasywriter; bushpilot1
According to whom, actually? Can you back that up?

Probably, but i'm not of a mind to go searching for it because it's in the Freeper archives from back in 2008-2009.

I might post an article asking whomever brought forth this information originally to identify it, but I can attest that I've seen the documentation myself, complete with flight schedules, ticket prices, and the Airline company logos of the time period.

FantasyWriter, do you remember this stuff? Let me see if I can remember the names of some prominent birther Freepers who might remember where this stuff got put.

We can probably figure this out some way or another. For example, United currently doesn't allow infants younger than 7 days old.

Incubation and infants under seven days old

United does not accept infants in incubators or infants younger than seven days old.

So there is our baseline.

The rules were at least that stringent in 1961, and according to the literature I have seen, far more stringent than that.

We'll have to see if we can find it.

97 posted on 09/16/2016 4:53:23 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Will J Diamond

You come onto a conservative site, spread lies, and disparage anyone who won’t do your research for you. SMH.

‘Maraniss hints at where home was not — namely, the residence her parents shared with the Pratt family at 6085 Kalanianole Highway, the address listed on the birth certificate.  As Maraniss relates, the Pratt daughter, then an adolescent, “has no memory of the Dunhams’ daughter bringing an infant home.”  He adds, “[Ann] and Obama and the infant never lived [at 6085 Kalanianole].”’


98 posted on 09/16/2016 4:54:18 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: DiogenesLamp
the airline regulations of that time period would not allow a two week old infant to fly, so how did Stanley Ann get to Seattle on August 19 if Obama was born in Hawaii?

Would ya believe; eight Hawaiian natives rowing a dugout?

99 posted on 09/16/2016 4:54:47 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Cite for above:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/maraniss_bio_deepens_obama_birth_mystery.html#ixzz4KSv8zwuR ;


100 posted on 09/16/2016 4:54:49 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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