Obama told his publisher that he was "born in Kenya", are you calling him a liar?
He never said any such thing. His publisher hired a researcher who made a mistake.
'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991
A possible source of the so-called "birther" issue--or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama--has been identified.
abcnews.go.com
Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.
"This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me--an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."