Thursday, May 17, 2012

Obama's 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia'

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

Obama close-up



Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller. Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070403190001/http://www.dystel.com/clientlist.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6349081.stm


By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&date=1177156195000&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dystel.com%2Fclientlist.html&target=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20070421114955%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dystel.com%2Fclientlist.html