I've been pretty busy - hence the screen name "sometime lurker."
Weren’t you one of the ones that said there was no evidence that Obama misled people as to the location of his birth?
I don't believe I ever said that. And I certainly have never posted that 0bama didn't mislead people on any issue. I said the evidence points to him being born in Hawaii, with no good evidence he was born elsewhere.
How do you feel now that his publisher’s biography of him lists Kenya as his place of birth? Care to admit you were wrong about this?
Since his literary agent has said she was in error placing that in the promotional brochure, and since I never commented about his literary agent in the past, I see nothing to correct on my part. As to how I feel, I feel that he and everyone associated with him are sloppy as well as numerous other negative adjectives.
I’m not suggesting Obama was born in Kenya. I find that notion to be completely unsupportable by the evidence,
We agree.
The evidence that he wasn't born in Hawaii is the mountain of stonewalling he has thrown up to prevent any scrutiny of his vital documents when the alternative was far easier.
Sure, it's circumstantial evidence, but it is what has fueled the entire issue from the beginning. People cannot help but feel he is hiding something crucial because his recalcitrance indicates he is hiding something crucial. He knew he had told people he was born in Kenya, and he knew it would be brought up as an issue. He had years to prepare for his Presidential run, and he could have gotten something that looked like a genuine Hawaiian original birth certificate back in 2006.
People had REMEMBERED he had claimed to be from Kenya, and so they were very interested in how he was going to square what they remembered of him with the requirement that he be a "natural born citizen." Presenting a computer print out in 2008 was a serious mistake on his part. (Assuming he really was born in Hawaii.) On the other hand, it is the only thing he could have done if he didn't actually have a good birth certificate.
So we are faced with two possibilities. He, and all his supporting legal staff are political and legal idiots, and they didn't bother heading off this obvious political and legal problem early, or He really can't prove he was born in Hawaii.
Obama and Co are very stupid, but his army of lawyers are not. I believe he consulted with them, explained his predicament, and they advised him to take the course of action he has followed; Stonewalling and obfuscation.
Ala Edgar Allen Poe's analysis of "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", The best evidence he was born off the Island is his manner of dealing with the issue.
I think there is a strong possibility that Stanley Ann went to stay with one of two relatives, and ended up birthing him in Canada, but I don't dismiss the possibility that he was actually born in Hawaii. His actions just don't support this scenario, in my opinion.