“During his campaign for the Senate, he and his team touted his Kenyan birth, possibly because it made him more appealing to the voters they needed. Unfortunately, admitting to his birth in Kenya makes him ineligible for the Presidency.”
Citation please.
If this information came from a credible source, FReepers would have had all the details long ago.
This link may not satisfy, but with a very short search on google I found this. Hardly definitive, but there does seem to be evidence that news reports on Obama cited a Kenyan birth, and it seems that the Obama campaign took no steps to correct that assertion.
http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/AP-declares-obama-Kenyan-born/
Take it for what it’s worth.
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/Born04.htm