# Trival Pursuit: Kenyan Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328 "2012-05-18T16:12:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/41 "2012-05-19T13:32:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > W) ell, looks like this was a tempest in a teapot. X) actly. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/42 "2012-05-19T13:35:12Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How the heck does something like that show up now? It is a clever ruse, planted by the Obama campaign itself, to distract the right wing propaganda machine from the economy. We are too smart for them. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/43 "2012-05-19T22:23:44Z")
Y) do we care anymore? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/44 "2012-05-19T22:28:25Z")
Z)eroes batting zero. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/45 "2012-05-19T23:12:33Z")
AA)chen! He was actually born in Aachen! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/46 "2012-05-19T23:28:44Z")
AB) He was born in Alberta! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/47 "2012-05-20T00:01:51Z")
AC) tually he wasn’t born at all - he was created in a hippie laboratory to destroy the Constitution of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/48 "2012-05-20T00:12:51Z")
AD) Really it’s a question of semantics, that is, what you mean by “born.” Lizard People have a complicated reproduction cycle. But the Final Hatching definitely took place in Honolulu! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/49 "2012-05-20T00:24:02Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How the heck does something like that show up now? > > Whether it be the evil birther types or the fair and balanced media, is anybody doing their job ? > > What would you all think if the latter had the booklet but didn’t think it was news-worthy? I’d agree. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/50 "2012-05-20T00:30:42Z")
AE)nima. Birthers were not technically born as that involves a uterus. So out of projection they want to think Obama was once santorum as well. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/51 "2012-05-20T01:38:03Z")
AF)ter being born in Kenya, he traveled back in time, killed his father, and hooked his mother up with a teenage Jimi Hendrix. …who flew her to Kenya to give birth anyway. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/52 "2012-05-20T01:41:48Z")
AG)ainst expectations, I’m enjoying this thread more than most birther threads. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/53 "2012-05-20T09:09:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I) Robot I saw what you did there. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/54 "2012-05-20T10:36:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Is this really an Elections thread? I wish I could argue that it isn’t. But this shit just isn’t going away – in fact it’s now [heating up a bit,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652302) obviously **because** this is an election year and the Usual Suspects are gonna try to make electoral hay with it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/55 "2012-05-21T13:07:49Z")
> [@theR](#): > > If anyone had the booklet and didn’t think it was newsworthy I would agree. The bottom line is that this booklet could say Obama was born on Mars and it wouldn’t matter since he has a valid Hawaii birth certificate. The birth certificate proves this booklet was incorrect, so anyone that thinks the booklet is correct is most likely willfully ignorant or intentionally dishonest about the topic. The only way it is newsworthy is if one thinks it’s appropriate to try and convey lies or inaccuracies as true. This attitude, by a group of people that are clearly to the left of center, is the best evidence that the fair and balanced media are in reality tilting their way. Don’t tell me… I know… liberalism is reality..blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/56 "2012-05-21T13:10:16Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > This attitude, by a group of people that are clearly to the left of center, is the best evidence that the fair and balanced media are in reality tilting their way. Don’t tell me… I know… liberalism is reality..blah blah blah. Did you just argue that the media ought to report verifiably false information in the interest of balance? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/57 "2012-05-21T13:13:07Z")
“In other news, a copywriter made an error in an old draft of President Obama’s biographical blurb which suggests he was born in Kenya. Birthers are still crazy.” Would that have satisfied you? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/58 "2012-05-21T14:14:43Z")
No, WT…? Is right. This proves that all those different versions of the birth certificate were forged and that the Republican gubenor was lying! Now all we have to do is figure out who planted the two birth announcements. ---
**Author:** ![IntelliQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@IntelliQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IntelliQ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/59 "2012-05-21T16:10:38Z")
Well, after having a little fun with this, and before moving on to something worthwhile, … What this pamphlet does show is that the President certainly is no Manchurian candidate who was carefully constructed and groomed for the Presidency from an early age. Shadowy cabals don’t miss these things. Beyond Team Obama’s bumbling responses and handling of birth inquiries, Im not seeing a cover up. In regards to the pamphlet, he let the error go to bolster his black image among the target audience or he didnt even see it. Because I’m evolving on this 🙂 I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didnt even see the mistake. After-all, his agent was a nobody and he isn’t Stephen King. Promos like this goes out fast with much liberation given to the agents to make the book sell. I’ve given somewhat free reign to people under my hire in the past to make things happen, and sometimes later small errors or screw ups pop to the surface. If the Kenyan born bio was inside the cover or back of the book we’d at least have something to chew on, but some pamphlets printed up for exposure doesnt qualify as anything more than a rookie mistake by a rookie agent. In the end there’s no convincing evidence (that Im aware) to even suggest the Kenyan birth went beyond one initial error and was repeated by a few small media types. The small-time newspaper blurbs had no reason to do a full anal probe on Obama, he was just a guy trying to sell a book. /End of fair assessment. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trival-pursuit-kenyan-edition/622328/60 "2012-05-21T17:39:46Z")
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