Literary agent's bio says Obama was born in Kenya

imjustagirl · May 21, 2012

I didn't say I agreed with him.
I just get tired of JR coming on here like he's all high and mighty and better than everyone on earth when he admits he can't comprehend a pretty straightforward sentence.

Tom Petty · May 21, 2012

waiiiiit just a dad burned minute. this thread is so confusing.
should i be concerned or should i not be concerned?

imjustagirl · May 21, 2012

Serious note: What is the concern thing? I've seen it everywhere but don't know the genesis.

Herbert Anchovy · May 21, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Concern_troll

Uncle.Ruckus · May 21, 2012

Tomas' concern confusion concerns me.

imjustagirl · May 21, 2012

Oh. That's not as much fun. I thought maybe someone like smallpotatoes said something stupid and everyone co-opted it.

Uncle.Ruckus · May 21, 2012

Then we'd be concerny.

Starman · May 21, 2012

Tom Petty said:

waiiiiit just a dad burned minute. this thread is so confusing.
should i be concerned or should i not be concerned?
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When in doubt: be concerned, very concerned.

Turn on teevee for five minutes (one channel in particular), that should do it.

LongTimeListener · May 21, 2012

Ragu couldn't give a shit whether Obama is a Kenyan. A Keynesian, on the other hand ...

dooley_womack1 · May 21, 2012

Let's see the economics degree!

Point of Order · May 21, 2012

TigerVols said:

The Big Ragu said:

He knows it. He wouldn't have quoted one sentence, cut the rest of the post, and then actually tried to imply that the sentence he did quote had any relation to the strawman he argued, unless he was being dishonest.

Here was the exchange.

The only bloody corpse is what Tigervols did with it.

The Big Ragu said:

waterytart said:

Ragu, are you saying Obama has claimed to have been born in Kenya at some time when that would have been an advantage?
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Not saying it. Because I don't know.

I have no idea for sure if he ever overtly claimed it, if he let others believe something without claiming it, whether he let something like that get mistakenly written without correcting it, or whether things like this are just some kind of inconvenient coincidence. I can only guess.

While I can't say fore sure, though, I don't believe the conflicting info -- some of which goes back to when Obama was in law school, so before he had any reason to think about what would trail him around when he decided to be president -- came out of nowhere.

We have there a relatively unknown Obama, trying to peddle a book called "Journeys in Black and White," in which his "commitment to social and racial issues" would be evident.

What is more likely? That someone wrote that bio of him without ANY input from Obama -- just made up a background about him; decided to place his birth in Kenya without Obama ever having said it or given the impression? Or that Obama might have been complicit -- in either a small way or maybe a very big way -- in creating the narrative he wanted of himself at that time in his life?

He wouldn't be the first person to embellish on a background, and if anything, we have a bunch of instances that we know of with him in which he seems to have done that a lot as he has chased his ambitions.
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After you write, "I don't know," clearly indicating you "don't know if Obama was born in Hawai'i" it really matters not one iota what you write next (or in your specific case, what you write and write and write and write next). If you don't know, given all the undeniable proof that's been presented, then you are a moron whose ability to be a so-called "moderator" (root word, moderate, as in fair to all sides, despite your repeated attacks on posters) calls into question the board management's judgment.

It also raises the question why can't moderators' posts about subjects that have nothing to do with managing threads be ignored? Why must you inflict your every word (after word after word) on us, when others have ignore buttons for a reason?
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Truth

Tom Petty · May 21, 2012

Uncle.Ruckus said:

Tomas' concern confusion concerns me.
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hey, i saw tony use blue font here a few pages back ... let's just say the hair on the back of my neck stood on end.

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