Freewill
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I am assuming the woman is right and she didn't fact check at all. A phone call to Obama saying "Hey were born in Kenya or not" would be all that was required.
Again, it was editing mistake. They happen. It was a minor pamphlet relaying a minor mistake in the biography of an author that they dropped months later......more than 20 years ago.
In this case their fact was he was born in Kenya, that is beyond doubt it is what the pamphlet said for many years.
They dropped Obama as a client soon after printing up the pamphlet. I don't know about you, but I've never known a business to go back into 20 year old collateral referring to a client they don't even have to 'correct' a minor editing mistake.
Even the basis of your argument doesn't make the slightest sense.
If you have a better source than the woman who edited the pamphlet herself, by all means present it. But you don't. Leaving Miriam Goderich as the best source on earth for the final content of that pamphlet.
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.
"You're undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote. "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."
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A simple mistake.....or a fantastically elaborate international conspiracy spanning half a century and involving everyone from the Republican State officials in Hawaii to local newspapers to the White House itself?
Occam's razor, my friend. When you hear hoof beats, think horses. Not zebras.
You put up a good argument too bad it is all BS.
First of all Obama was not born in Kenya, no one is saying that. Ever Breitbart before he was killed said the same.
What you would have us do is suspend all logic. Suspend what other authors have said that they either wrote their own bios or were shown the text prior to publication. Then you would have us believe that this woman just picked Kenya out of a hat. Even though, supposedly, Obama never made the claim of being born there. So where would she have gotten the idea? Especially back before Hillary and the democrats went all birther on him? More then likely this pamphlet is where they got the idea of his Keyan birth. Nothing else makes much sense. I could never figure out why they said Kenya other then his father was from Kenya. It has to be because this woman said so in the bio with OBAMA'S blessing. Which if it were not for other confirming information, such as the newspaper report of his birth, I would believe maybe he was born in Kenya.
So what does this mean? It doesn't mean anyone actually believes Obama was born in Kenya. What it clearly shows is that Obama is more then willing to alter his persona to fit his political needs. For example, During his 2008 campaign Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments. This was proved to be not true yet Obama kept repeating it as if true.
As for the statement he was born in Kenya, Obama was listed as being born in Kenya on the Dyster & Goderich website until April 2007, "just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency."
Look does it make a hill of beans now? No, Obama is going to ride out his term little fibs like this are not going to take him out. But fib he did there is no other logical explanation no matter what the agent said.