Literary agent's bio says Obama was born in Kenya

Fox News lies!

 

Isn't it at least a reasonable possibility?

Presumably Obama wrote a chapter or so for his book proposal. I would guess the agent would know Obama's life story, either from talking to him, or from reading the proposal.

I mean, it's not just an "error". Where would it come from? The father was a student from Kenya. His mother was from here. Even if you were just making assumptions, you'd guess he was born here, not in Kenya.

It seems willful on someone's part, and designed to sell the book.

 

Thank you...

 

What do the lawyers say? Cui bono?

From where I sit, with plausibility scored on a 1 (no way in hell) to 100 (perfectly plausible):

95-100: Many moons ago, when he was fresh out of Harvard Law School with a bit of marketable notoriety accompanying his having been elected the first editor of Harvard Law Review, Barack Hussein Obama II (BHO) was given some sort of advance and contract to write a book on race relations. Writers and publishers not generally being in the non-profit business, BHO and his associates engaged in a bit of puffery with regard to his background in an attempt to drum up interest in the forthcoming book.

90-100: All of the above, except BHO engaged in no puffery and yet chose to look the other way when someone did so on his behalf.

80-90: As above, but this time BHO was completely ignorant of the puffery being done on his behalf.

70-80: No puffery was done; it was all just a mistake on the part of the biography writer.

-100-0: All of this is evidence that BHO was really born in Kenya and, knowing the political realities accompanying said origins, conspired with many multiples of people to gin up a Hawaii birth certificate. Oh, and all those people have kept their lips zipped on the biggest story of the century.

 

doctorquant, you are hereby accused of being a birther and nobody has to listen to anything you say ever again. It's all right here in the cut and paste. Do you deny the charges?

(it doesn't matter if you deny the charges)

 

As if anybody listens to anything I say anyway ...

 

Who knew you guys elected George O'Leary?

 

It's really fascinating to me that we can go on for eight pages about this. And on, and on, and on...

 

I'd like to see someone go through the book of bios that included the Obama bio and find out how many other bios included wrong birthplaces. I think we know the answer.

 

Don't stop believin', hold on to this feelin' ...