Again, I watched that interview with Obama's grandmother on Youtube with two people from Kenya. When she said she was present at his birth, that's what she said, she was talking about Obama JR, not her son. He was not lying. Obama's grandmother says she was there at his birth and she never left Kenya. The Kenyan ambassador says Obama was born in Kenya....everybody says he was born there except him and there is no proof that he was born here.
When a talk show host asked the Kenyan ambassador if Obama's birthplace in Kenya was going to become an historic landmark, the ambassador replied, "It already is..."
Well then you saw a dishonestly edited by CON$ video and swallowed the CON$ervative lie whole!!!! This serves as a teachable moment in how CON$ lie!
No, Obama's grandmother didn't say he was born in Kenya - War Room - Salon.com
In that interview, Sarah Obama does in fact say at one point that she was there for her grandson's birth.
But that was a mistake, a confusion in translation. As soon as a jubilant McRae began to press her for further details about her grandson being born in Kenya,
the family realized the mistake and corrected him. And corrected him. And corrected him. (The audio is available for download
here.)
No matter, though, because people who believe in a conspiracy theory
simply hear what they want to hear. So some Birther sites have posted transcripts and [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFc4wCpvSo&feature=related"]YouTube clips[/ame] that end abruptly with the mistranslation and don't include the corrections. McRae, for his part, included the full translation in his affidavit -- he thinks it's all just part of the conspiracy. "Some few younger relatives, including [translator Vitalis Akech Ogombe]," McRae wrote in his court filing, "have obviously been versed to counter such facts with the common purported information from the American news media that Obama was born in Hawaii."
Here's the conversation:
MCRAE: Could I ask her about his actual birthplace? I would like to see his birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Was she present when he was born in Kenya?
OGOMBE: Yes. She says, yes, she was, she was present when Obama was born.
MCRAE: When I come in December. I would like to come by the place, the hospital, where he was born. Could you tell me where he was born? Was he born in Mombasa?
OGOMBE: No, Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America.
MCRAE: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.
OGOMBE: No, he was born in America, not in Mombasa.
MCRAE: Do you know where he was born? I thought he was born in Kenya. I was going to go by and see where he was born.
OGOMBE: Hawaii. Hawaii. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii. In the state of Hawaii, where his father was also learning, there. The state of Hawaii.