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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88337)	5/17/2012 1:47:38 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

you homophobes brought up tea bagging not the tea party and like he said you meant it as insult, ergo you guys are homophobes. He nailed you libs, but that is so easy to do

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88337)	5/17/2012 2:21:29 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

So... if you were Obama, would you hire a literary agent that completely misrepresented your citizenship? breitbart.com Doesn't sound like Obama did much to correct the record. Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White. In fact, when the literary agent wrote up advertisement, where do you think he gleaned the background information from for the Bio? Should have been Obama himself. This is why it's important to get some answers related to Obama's time as a student. If he was actually a US citizen, but representing himself as not, we need to know if this kind of misrepresentation resulted in financial advantages (ie: fraud). And remember, it was the Hillary Clinton campaign and her Democratic supporters who ORIGINALLY brought up this controversy. It was not the Republicans. Hawk

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88337)	5/17/2012 4:19:15 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 89467

The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' breitbart.com by JOEL B. POLLAK 29 minutes ago 118 POST A COMMENT Note from Senior Management: Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him. It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences. It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review. It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times. *** 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. It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead. Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below): Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976. Continues... breitbart.com