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To: SilentZ who wrote (801607)	8/15/2014 12:12:05 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By PKRBKR Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570744

LOL!!! Then why did Obozo let it be circulated and advertised in that manner.... I happen to think Obozo was born in Hawaii...and this was just a lie to help him sell books....lying seems to be what he is best at....

To: SilentZ who wrote (801607)	8/15/2014 12:40:41 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570744

Except it wasn't his own statement. This has been pointed out many times. The cycle is someone, usually Taro, dredges this one up. They get linked to the snopes sites or one of the other places it is debunked. They shoot back that if it wasn't true, why didn't Obama have it changed. They are informed that he likely didn't know about it, that isn't information that gets distributed to the public, much less the authors. It is a promotional booklet sent to potential clients. Then that gets spun into yet another example how evil Obama is. c Then down the memory hole for a few months and then back into circulation. It is a stupid game. They are very attached to their fairy tales. The debunking should be made into a macro. Make it easier the next time it pops up, and it will.

To: SilentZ who wrote (801607)	8/15/2014 2:02:50 PM
From: Taro	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570744

> His own statement on print in order to promote his book before changing his mind, when running for president. Except it wasn't his own statement. The story in all it's details is well known and so is the placating effort of Snopes. Here some details, just to refresh your memory: The original birther was Barack Obama. In 2012 Breitbart broke one of the most significant, yet ignored, stories of the Obama presidency: 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. The text in question below a nice photo of the very young Barack reads as 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." How can anyone refute that Obama admitted to being born in Kenya? They can not. Whether he or his publisher wrote this, he clearly signed off on it. Some have said that he lied to sell more books. The general idea is that he sensationalized in order to sound more interesting. But the bottom line is that this biography was not questioned or edited until well into Barack Obama’s presidency and we are expected to believe that it was just a misunderstanding or mistake of some kind. They had 21 years to correct it. Some additional info, which even you may have missed: blogs.telegraph.co.uk