Obama Says He Was Born In Kenya

Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.” In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.

Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama’s ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him.

It is for that reason that we launched “The Vetting,” an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)–not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences.

It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below–one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review.

It is evidence–not of the President’s foreign origin, but that Barack Obama’s public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.

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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.

Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text 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.
The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976.

Front cover (outside) – note Barack Obama listed in alphabetical order

Front cover (inside)

Jay Acton no longer represents Obama. However, Jane Dystel still lists Obama as a client on her agency’s website.

According to the booklet itself, the text was edited by Miriam Goderich, who has since become Dystel’s partner at Dystel & Goderich, an agency founded in 1994. Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.

The design of the booklet was undertaken by Richard Bellsey, who has since closed his business. Bellsey, reached by telephone, could not recall the exact details of the booklet, but told Breitbart News that it “sounds like one of our jobs, like I did for [Acton & Dystel] twenty years ago or more.”

The parade of authors alongside Obama in the booklet includes politicians, such as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill; sports legends, such as Joe Montana and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and numerous Hollywood celebrities.

The reverse side of the page that features Barack Obama includes former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and early-1990s “boy band” pop sensation New Kids On the Block.

Acton, who spoke to Breitbart News by telephone, confirmed precise details of the booklet and said that it cost the agency tens of thousands of dollars to produce.

He indicated that while “almost nobody” wrote his or her own biography, the non-athletes in the booklet, whom “the agents deal[t] with on a daily basis,” were “probably” approached to approve the text as presented.

Dystel did not respond to numerous requests for comment, via email and telephone. Her assistant told Breitbart News that Dystel “does not answer questions about Obama.”

The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.

The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama–or the people representing and supporting him–manipulate his public persona.

David Maraniss’s forthcoming biography of Obama has reportedly confirmed, for example, that a girlfriend Obama described in Dreams from My Father was, in fact, an amalgam of several separate individuals.

In addition, Obama and his handlers have a history of redefining his identity when expedient. In March 2008, for example, he famously declared: “I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.”

Several weeks later, Obama left Wright’s church–and, according to Edward Klein’s new biography, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, allegedly attempted to persuade Wright not to “do any more public speaking until after the November [2008] election” (51).

Obama has been known frequently to fictionalize aspects of his own life. During his 2008 campaign, for instance, Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments.

That turned out to be untrue, but Obama has repeated the story–which even the Washington Post called “misleading”–in a campaign video for the 2012 election.

The Acton & Dystel biography could also reflect how Obama was seen by his associates, or transitions in his own identity. He is said, for instance, to have cultivated an “international” identity until well into his adulthood, according to Maraniss.

Regardless of the reason for Obama’s odd biography, the Acton & Dystel booklet raises new questions as part of ongoing efforts to understand Barack Obama–who, despite four years in office remains a mystery to many Americans, thanks to the mainstream media.

Larry O’Connor contributed to this report.

Read the full article here: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii


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Obama’s Transparency-Deception Beyond Belief

To:An open letter to America:

Obama’s Transparency-Deception Beyond Belief

“The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are those with something to hide.” Those words of Barack Obama, spoken in Aug.2010 on Long Island,N.Y , were self-incriminating for he uses deception ranging from silence to sarcasm to suppression to bar anyone from viewing any document which may refute his claim of Presidential eligibility. Below are examples:

Deception: In 2008, he let a fraudulent, ineligible Hawaiian short-form “Certification of Live Birth, of approx 13 bits of information, be posted on the “Daily Kos” website as proof of his Presidential eligibility while aware, as a Constitutional teacher, that only a long-form Certificate of Live Birth, of approx.41 bits of information, was valid for one seeking the Presidency. Notably missing from his COLB were the names of the Birth Hospital, attending Physician and Birth witnesses….information required in determining Presidential eligibility. His birth certificate number was “blacked” out, ignoring the COLB warning: ANY ALTERATION INVALIDATES THIS CERTIFICATE. Obama deliberately lied, claiming his COLB was a true copy of an eligible birth certificate in the Hawaiian Health Dept.files, for if they did match it meant both were COLB’S and,therefore,both ineligible for a Presidential aspirant. He continued this deception until April,2011, seducing a Nation he had sworn to serve. We are speaking of criminal fraud!

Deception: In 2009, he publically displayed a letter he sent to Kapi”olani Med.Center in Hawaii,stating he was born there. The Hospital’s Chief Operating Officer, Martha Stewart only confirmed to Hawaiian State Senator Sam Slom that a copy of Obama’s letter hangs “in the Administrative Section, away from public view” and the original is stored for “safe-keeping and preservation” but she would not allow him to view it. The Hospital has no public memorial to Obama’s birth. The “first”(?) African-American President of the United States names a birth hospital yet can’t get that hospital to confirm. Also, some family members claimed he was born in Hawaii’s Queens Medical Center. In reality, a damning fact stands out. Not one Hawaiian hospital claims to be Obama’s birth hospital. I repeat-not one. So much for the “vetting” of Obama.

Deception: Since 2010, States prepared legislation against future elections, including a requirement that only a “Certificate of Live Birth” is acceptable for Presidential aspirants, incumbent or otherwise. Obama, after three years of deception, realized his fraudulent 2008 COLB would not survive close scrutiny by a now wary Nation, leaving him but one avenue of deception remaining; create another fraudulent document, a long-form “Certificate of Live Birth” and deceive the States by having the Hawaiian Health Dept. claim they recently found it. In April,2011, he announced that the Health Dept had indeed “found” it; a document previously unmentioned, unseen, unknown, and unused and had sent it to him, which he then put on a Gov’t website and proclaimed to the Country as proof of his eligibility, yet, he would not allow experts to examine and confirm its authenticity! Why? Remember, in 2009 he claimed his COLB on the Daily Kos site matched the Health Dept. copy, never mentioning nor offering a valid long-form Certificate of Live Birth which, if existing, would have saved him and America millions from lawsuits and possibly confirmed any eligibility. Further, Dr.C.Fukino,former Director of the Hawaiian Health Dept., said she saw his original birth certificate, half-typed and half-written,yet, Obama’s 2011 “miraculous” find was completely typed. Also, Hawaiian Gov.Neil Abercrombie stated he would go to his Health Dept., secure a vault copy of the birth certificate and put this issue to rest.He later admitted, to his credit, nothing was found except an obscure file with notations of birth names, including a Barack Obama. No Certificate of Life Birth; not even a Certification of Live Birth(COLB) , the document which Obama claimed was used to create his 2008 copy! Nothing! How could the Health Dept. copy of his COLB disappear and, years later, a previously unknown long-form “Certificate of Live Birth” suddenly take its place in 2011? How? By deliberate deception! Since his 2011 “find” was also branded a fraud by experts there is but one conclusion if the newly found copy matched Obama’s. It’s a copy of a fraud and two frauds do not make a right! Obama had again deceived our Nation.

Incidentally,I am not writing about all the other issues such as his withholding or falsifying his social security records, Soetoro to Obama name change, school and Selective Service records or the visa he used to enter wartime 1981 Pakistan since others are pursuing those paths. Ironically, every document which could shed light on this issue Obama has kept in darkness.

Deception: Recently, a Georgia Judge subpoenad Obama to appear in Court with proof of his eligibility if he wished to appear on the 2012 Georgia ballot. Obama ignored the subpoena and his attorney brazenly notified the Judge, in writing, that neither Obama nor his counsel would appear in Court to answer it. A King had spoken! Sadly, the Judge ignored the plaintiff’s presentation and simply dismissed the lawsuit without seeing any proof of Obama’s eligibility! Obama repeatedly boasts of being familiar with the meaning of “transparency”. Familiar? He doesn’t even exhibit a “nodding acquaintance” with the term.

Deception: Dr.Terrence Lakin, former U.S.Army Lt.Colonel, Army surgeon and Bronze Star recipient refused a second deployment to Afghanistan until Obama produced a valid Certificate of Live Birth(not a COLB), to satisfy millions now challenging his claim of eligibility. Col.Lakin’s letter requesting proof was ignored as was a follow-up one; ignored by the only Commander-in-Chief in the history of our Nation who,in defiance of approx. 100 lawsuits, has refused, to this day, to produce a valid birth certificate. A simple solution to a National issue unless, in Obama’s words,”he had something to hide.” He ignored a decorated Officer with eighteen years of honorable service who had taken a required officer’s oath to defend our Constitution and, in so doing, suffered a court-martial, dishonorable discharge, loss of pay and benefits and imprisonment. A faithful American’s career destroyed by Obama to keep his own intact.His deception knows no bounds and he shamelessly accepts salutes from a Military he demeans so readily. Sadly, also, was the conduct of the Army court-martial judge in refusing any Obama records to be entered into Col.Lakin’s defense, “lest they prove embarrassing to the President.”(her words) Fear of Obama’s possible guilt outweighed concern for Col.Lakin’s possible innocence. In spite of the verdict that day the Military Court,not Col.Lakin, was guilty of dereliction of duty. I again ask all to contact their elected representatives on behalf of the Colonel and demand this miscarriage of justice be overturned!

John Jay convinced George Washington to include in the Constitution (Article II) a provision limiting the Presidency and Vice-Presidency to natural-born American citizens so no one with a dual-nationality or other foreign allegiance (British, for example) could adversely affect the governance of our Country, a requirement casually ignored by many in today’s political arena. By deliberately withholding access to virtually every document bearing his name plus criminally offering a false COLB and a more
recent false “Certificate of Live Birth”, Obama has shrouded his eligibility in secrecy. What John Jay feared has come to pass! Recently, on National TV, America accidentally overheard Obama telling his subordinates to”find a way around The Constitution”; this from a man who, when inaugurated, swore under oath to defend it. Deception, with a capital “D”.

Deception: Obama travels over the Country, speaking to minority students who desperately seek financial aid for higher education and a better life(deservedly) yet he ignored a long-standing offer of Globe Magazine of $100,000 to assist those students if he produced a valid “Certificate of Live Birth”. Again, a simple request met by silence, an Obama trademark. His mantra seems to be: “if responding threatens my legitimacy I won’t respond.” He also recently started touting a website for black Americans to use to assist his Presidential campaign. The subtle implication (“vote color, not conscience”} he doesn’t make to Jews,Italians,Irish,etc., who also were victims of persecution and prejudice. I wonder why?

Deception: Obama recently called on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns, saying candidates need to be “as transparent as possible”. I’ll let you readers kick that one around.

Deception: Obama’s deception did not spare his friends. General Colin Powell (ret.) trusted Obama’s claim that his 2011 long-form Certificate of Live Birth was legitimate, even to ignoring an offer of the “Birthers Summit” Organization of $15,000 to allow them three hours to refute Obama’s claim and hear the General’s response. A blind friendship Obama took advantage of.

THE SILENT MEDIA….DEFENDERS OF OBAMA

World War II Media news blackouts sought to keep our military activity secret from the Axis and help sustain America’s resolve, whereas, today’s Media news blackout of the “eligibility” issue seeks only to keep Obama’s eligibility status secret from the American people, allowing our resolve to be subverted by a person of illegitimate authority, hence, no authority. Article I of our Constitution gave the Press the right to reveal, not conceal news of interest to the American People. Though Obama destroyed Col.Lakin’s career this was hidden from America by Fox,MSNBC, etc., as was Obama’s and his lawyer’s ignoring of the Georgia subpoena….and getting away with it!

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly claimed he saw a valid Obama birth certificate, but had to retract his claim for what Fox viewed was the fraudulent COLB. He also said that the two newspapers clippings reporting Obama’s “supposed” birth in Hawaii proved his eligibility. Three years later, even after being made aware that in 1961 anyone could have prepared an Hawaiian birth certificate form and had it reported in the Newspapers, O’Reilly is still parroting his false claim and has the nerve each night to tell America “we’re looking out for you.” With such a friend we do not lack enemies!

CONCLUSION

After four years of reading and writing about this issue, I have found that a recurring defensive mode pervades the Major Media personalities. Not one offers a legitimate argument in defense of Obama. Alll avoid responding directly to challenger’s questions, utilizing silence,sarcasm or suppression. How well the pupils have learned from their Master!

As more and more examples surfaced which clearly showed Obama would go to any lengths or expense to prevent America from determining his eligibility, his concealment, not his color, spurred my efforts onward. Many Blacks accept my writings, as I accept their’s. I was even prepared to support Herman Cain until personal problems forced his exit from the Presidential Race. All my letters stress the truth about the eligibility issue, so when politicians of any Party casually dismiss this issue with remarks like “this is not a major issue with me” are they aware of what they are saying? The person acting as President of the World’s most powerful Nation has the power to lead America toward prosperity or ruin, yet, they claim Obama’s right to occupy that Office is not”a major issue with them.” Also, to those who claim his eligibility has been authenticated by proof Obama provided, may I remind them that proof consisting of fraudulent and/or ineligible documents is merely proof of fraud and/or ineligibility! Those who defend his legitimacy are either uninformed, avoiding it for political or personal reasons or simply ignoring the truth. Some may say it’s too late to consider unseating Obama until the next election. Why? Are “grace” periods awarded to one who has criminally acquired the Office of President? If so, Obama has already used up almost four years of his. Should America tolerate a continuation of his deception? Over one hundred lawsuits were filed against his legitimacy, yet, Obama’s refusal to allow anyone to see and verify his “purported” valid birth certificate (including the Courts) is never questioned or reported by the Media, calling to mind a Biblical observation: “Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but swallow the camel.”(St.Matthew 23:26)…..and they would have us eat the same meal. Wake up, America. Do you not see the forest for the trees? FOR WANT OF A VALID BIRTH CERTIFICATE A NATION MAY BE LOST!

Posted By: Robert Quinn Staff Writer