Obama's Birth: Are We Really Going Here?

Yes, we are. I have skirted the issue because I have believed all along that the President was born in the USA, although it does disturb me that we aren't even allowed to ask any questions about a Constitutional requirement or demand any evidence without being labeled quacks.

But this is strange. It appears that from 1991 until 2007 (two months AFTER his declaration of a run for President), Obama's OWN biography on his literary agent'sinfo and his publisher's website stated that he was born in Kenya.

He did have some control over that, y'all.

The 1991 information was from a promotional brochure produced by his literary agents.That information was on their website, too, something competent reporters interested in facts rather than spin might have dug up. It wasn't corrected until two months after he declared his intention to run for President.

What does it mean?  I'm inclined toward the explanation at Breitbart:

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

Ouch, yes, that should be manipulates.  All politicians do this to some degree, but Joel Pollack at Breitbart gives several more examples of the ways Obama does it, and he does seem to shift beyond 'manipulate' into lies about.  He doesn't just seek to win friends and influence people by giving certain impressions, but by actively lying.
If you look at that booklet and the timing of it- Obama was essentially a nobody, the information that he was born in Kenya could really only have come from him. And he would have been allowed to vet the brochure for accuracy. It suited his purpose, the persona he wanted to portray, to be thought of as a foreign national, somebody born in Kenya, brought up in Indonesia and Hawaii.  Now, it doesn't, so he slips out of that biography like a flim flam man sheds his suit, and puts on a different suit- now he's the Abraham Lincoln candidate, American made, now he's the 'outsider' because somehow his name makes him the underdog, now he's the post-racial uniter, now he's the potential father of a Trayvon Martin, whose case only matters, it seems, because he's the same color as Obama's non-existent son.

I think there are several reasons for this, and not all of them are political.  I think this slipping into different personas is something I see in many men from broken homes, especially from homes where the father's involvement is almost non-existent.  It's a survival mechanism and it becomes a second skin.It works because it's totally sincere- chameleon like, they are who they are when they are with you.  They are just somebody a little different when they are with other people- and that's who they are then, too.

Not having a firm, strong, unchanging sense of self is also something I see with Third Culture Kids.


- they stand outside the circle a little bit more than kids with single culture roots (and even though I believe he was born in Hawaii, his time spent in Indonesia makes him a third culture kid, as our time living in Japan has made our HG, in particular, a 3rd culture kid, and my Canadian childhood has, not so strongly, but still somewhat, given me 3rd culture leanings as well).

And then there are other reasons.

Whatever the reasons, even his most ardent supporters have to admit certain things with this story:

It appears that for whatever reasons,for over 15 of his adult years, Obama thought it was important for people to believe he was born in Kenya, and now he doesn't.  It does seem a little unfair to heap scorn and ridicule on those who believed him during that period.

Facts, the truth- these are fluid things in Obama's world.

It appears that for obvious reasons, the press is content to lie and cover up for him, avoiding even the most basic of vetting.