Either way, Obama has lied. And either way, the respective lie is no small matter.

Three possibilities follow the bombshell discovery that Barack Obama was promoted in 1991 through 2007 by his professional agency as an author “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”  (1) Obama untruthfully presented himself as Kenya-born.  (2) Obama untruthfully presents himself as Hawaii-born.  (3) Obama had no knowledge that his bio contained the 16-year-old “error” which was corrected in April of 2007, when Obama was gearing up his campaign for the U.S. presidency.

Of the three possibilities, number three may be discarded on its face as absurd.  Everyone in the publishing industry knows that authors write their own bios.  At the very least, authors approve their own bios.  I’ve written some law review articles, and in the law journal context, author bios are normally brief.  Even so, in every instance, the respective publishers printed only what I approved.

Mr. Obama’s Acton & Dystel bio is fairly lengthy and detailed.  To believe that Obama had no knowledge of the born-in-Kenya “error” requires more than just believing he didn’t sign off on it.  We would also have to believe that Obama didn’t care to read his bio in the 36-page promotional booklet after publication and distribution.  That is also a huge stretch.  Did Obama get a copy?  Of course he did — that’s another publishing standard.

Roger Kimball wrote a little spoof on A&D’s “fact-checking” error:

An agency spokesman who claims to have been responsible for the “born in Kenya” wheeze has publicly said that it was a mistake, a typographical error, a slip of the pen that just went “unchecked” for, um, sixteen-seventeen years. I can understand that. She meant to write “Hawaii” and wrote “Kenya” instead. Could happen to anyone. They look and sound enough alike, don’t they, that no one noticed. You meant to write “there” and you wrote “their” instead. You meant to write “cup” and you wrote “floccinaucinihilipilification” instead. No one — no one at the literary agency, not the author himself — could be expected to notice. You understand that, right?

Beyond any reasonable doubt, the Kenya birth information was supplied by Obama himself (and the bio was most likely written by Obama).

At this point, we should pause to consider why this explosive story is being largely ignored by the “mainstream” news media: no matter how it’s spun, when the dust settles, the story is a lose-lose for Obama.  Either way, Obama has lied.  And either way, the respective lie is no small matter.

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