News broke yesterday on Breitbart that in 1991, Obama was pictured in a booklet produced by his then literary agent that, among other things, described him as being born in Kenya. In a disclaimer on the top of the report, the senior management lets readers know that Andrew Breitbart was not a "birther" and that this story should not be construed as an attempt to prove that he really was born in Kenya and is thus not qualified to be president (though some will no doubt take it that way anyway). The interesting fact is that this information was taken down only in 2007.
The point of the report is that either Obama, his literary agent, or both thought it necessary to construct this narrative out of whole cloth so that he would appeal to an even more diverse audiences. It evidently was not enough simply being a African American; one has to be born in Africa.
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