Promotional booklets produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, states that Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii”, because…
A) he wrote it
B) his agent did it as a joke.
C) it was a collaborative effort, manufactured for street cred.
D) it was a simple mistake which no one noticed, and subsequently was repeated a few times by others who didn’t think anything of it.
E) it’s a parallel universe back-story that popped into our reality through a dimensional gateway.
F) it’s a vast [del]racist teabagger[/del] right wing conspiracy
Since the passage in question also contains another obvious error (from kd99’s link):
Barack Obama Sr. was a civil service economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, not a “finance minister”.
Not sure what you mean by “…was repeated a few times by others who didn’t think anything of it”, though. As far as I can tell, even the Birthers have never brought this up.
Ok again…carelessness? They accidentally said that Obama was born in Kenya and his father was a finance minister?
It’s material from his literary agent! I don’t think he was born in Kenya, but both he and his agent obviously thought it would make a better bio if he was, ditto having his father be a finance minister.
That’s not ‘careless’…it’s a calculated lie to inflate his bio. But it still does nothing to bolster the arguments of the birthers.
There’s plenty more surely. Im too lazy too dig. One can also just chalk it up to a “few” considering the massive amount of writing that’s been done about him in the past X amount of years.
It’s too much of a stretch to believe that material that was
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[li]meant to get books sold, [/li][li]probably composed with the assistance of or with information provided by Obama[/li][li]proofread by probably yet another party [/li][li]probably approved by O[/li][/ul]…can be classified as a mistake.
Obama wrote an actual autobiography where he gives his correct nationality and his fathers correct profession. He pretty clearly wasn’t trying to perpetuate a lie. Braingluttons link explains the source of the error, an assistant at the agency made a mistake, presumably because in 1991 no one really cared where Obama was born.