If the agency had directly asked Obama -- you know, the same Obama that the year prior had obviously told the Times, Post and Tribune that he was born in Hawaii -- then the bio would not have ended up saying "born in Kenya."
(Are you ever going to acknowledge those national media reports happened? Your denial by silence technique is long past the silly stage.)
Should I try the veal?
I suggest crow instead.
One thing I will grant you. Something changed between Journeys in Black and White and Dreams. Journeys was advertised as telling the story of a person born in Kenya, and Dreams tells an entirely different story.
What happened?
I've already covered this. Insofar as anyone at the agency envisioned a "born in Kenya" book, vision confronted reality and Obama's prior reporting he was born in Hawaii meant that book didn't (and couldn't) get written.
Here we observe the difference in our arguments: my argument rests on national media reports that DID get published; your argument rests on a supposed book in a form that DIDN't get written or published.
One of two things. Either Obama had aspired for the Oval Office all along but had no idea his Kenyan birth would be an issue, and by the time of Dreams’ writing he was informed otherwise.
The other possibility is that the Punahou choomer/coke snorter had not previously seen himself as POTUS material. But someone, perhaps Ayers, realized he had a shot. Thus the narrative was changed accordingly.
Or how about choice C) the one where Obama says "while 'born in Kenya' has a nice exotic ring to it, as I told the newspapers last year, I actually was born in Hawaii."
Sound the bells! We have a winner!! It's C.
The agency took Obama on as a client and prominently advertised him as ‘born in Kenya’, but they never asked him if this was true. They never told him they were advertising him this way. They never discussed the book with him that was hooked with the ‘born in Kenya’ opening line, and for which Obama accepted not one but two advances to write. They never even fact checked the ‘fact’ of his being born in Kenya. They just assumed that if his father was born there, the son must have been born there too...or something equally stupid.
It’s totally incoherent. It’s the kind of weirdness only the people on Fogbow would believe.