1990 Vanity Fair Biography On Obama Discovered Stating He Was Raised In Singapore

Never mind that the OP's own source notes that when Vanity Fair republished the article in 2006, they corrected the error.

So let's see: either Vanity Fair is part of the *massive* coverup, or else the writer made a mistake in 1990.

Considering there is *no* other source supporting the idea that Obama grew up in Singapore, the "writer made a mistake" explanation is the most logical.

Never mind, too, that there's no possible motive for claiming Singapore instead of Indonesia.

Or should we haul out these "mistakes" and ask what Romney, or McCain, or whomever is hiding?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rategy-story/2012/06/19/gJQAXtGMoV_story.html
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/nation-world-news/correction-us-romney-ad-story-1389020.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/10/politics/p091355D07.DTL
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/romney-opposes-epa-mercury-rule-20120619

As another poster said, "LOL... Birthers"

 

How were you right exactly? Obama is still president, hawaii still confirms his birth there, and you still maintain a perfect record of fail in court.

So what were you right about?

 

So who told them differently to begin with and why didn't Obama have them correct it then?

 

#1, Who cares? It was 1990 and it was Vanity Fair.

#2, who said anyone told them differently? More likely they just got it wrong.

#3, Vanity Fair was merely a print magazine in 1990. Why request a correction when it will appear in small type in the corner of an obscure page a month later? For that matter, how do you know he didn't? Finally, why would it be suspicious if Obama didn't bother?

This is classic conspiracy/birther nonsense. There is *no* evidence Obama grew up in Singapore. There was no advantage to Obama to claim he grew up in Singapore. The publication in question later corrected the point in question. But the weight of all the other evidence should be ignored: instead, an error in a 22-year-old article should be assumed to be accurate.

LOL! Birthers.

 

You mean, whitewashed the truth.
How is it that so many of these "mistakes" continue for years and are only corrected right before these "mistakes" can be politically harmful?

Still, after today's executive privileged revelation, he'll be lucky to stay our of jail. Much less deported to his home country.

 

And your evidence that the Vanity Fair article was the "truth" is?

#1, because nobody noticed or cared when Obama was obscure.

#2, how could this be politically harmful? There is no motive and no corroborating evidence.

LOL! Birthers.

LOL! Birthers.

 

Most corrections occur in the next issue. Not 16 years later.


lol obamatards.

 

#1, most minor errors are never corrected. This one was only corrected because 16 years later Obama was relevant enough that somebody noticed.

#2, for all you know, Obama *did* request a correction.

You have yet to provide any corroborating evidence that he grew up in Singapore, or provide a motive for providing incorrect information to Vanity Fair.

LOL! Birthers.

 

We dont know, do we? We dont know for sure if he even EARNED his degree.

 

Lie to yourself, you'll believe it. Do not try to lie to us though, we know better.

 

Yes the pattern that seems to exist throughout his life, he is represented one way, when in fact something else is the truth. Where does all the misrepresentation derive from, why so many of them throughout his life?

What do you mean they just got it wrong? They sat in a room and threw darts at a map and hit the wrong one? Someone just guessed? They didn't check their facts. Obama once again has a bio printed about him and he doesn't sing off on the copy as is SOP?

To be factual, to have your historical record reported correctly.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S the point. So who told Vanity Fair, one of the most respected magazines in the country he did? How did such glaring error get into print? They check their facts you know.

But can you claim there never has been?

You really are clueless as to the issue aren't you and are stuck making specious claims.

 

And we wonder why he won't release his college transcripts. They prob show he was born in Transylvania.

 

neither obama, nor anyone around him has ever said he wasn't born in america

 

Umm, Harvard has confirmed he graduated from Harvard Law School, with honors. It's listed on their website.

 

Well who told all these people who have written articles and bio's about him he was?

 

By the way, Mitt Romney was born in Mexico and raised there. He's a Mexican citizen, illegally smuggled across the border. I know this because I'm connected with the campaign.

Therefore, he's ineligible to be President.


Birthers, in their predictable fashion, will now say "That's not true!" How do they know it's not true?

 

All what people?

The man has literally had THOUSANDS of articles written about his biographical information. In 4 years of digging, birthers have found, what, two errors? That's quite frankly an amazing record of consistency. The fact that you think otherwise shows you really haven't thought about this much.

 

Yet you'll vote for Mitt Romney, who hasn't released his transcripts. Hypocrite, thy name is birther.

 

You REALLY need to get your facts straight before you post such things on a public board for all to read.

He was born in Detroit MI which the last I checked was not in Mexico. Now can you list any other President who has had so much misinformation printed about him and allowed it to stand without correction?

 

How do you know he was born in Detroit?

I don't know, why hasn't Mitt Romney's campaign come here to correct my post?

 

Yes who told them, where did the misinformation come from. These are people who fact check, get the subjects to sign off before print. So where did the misinformation come from in the first place and why did Obama raise a stink about it them. There are NO mentions of him telling them the articles were wrong. Don't you find that the least bit curious?

 

Give me a reason to believe otherwise. Can you point me to a reputable source that has printed anything saying he was not born in Detroit? Can you link me to an article from a prominent national magazine saying he was born in Mexico? Can point me to a literary agent or other personal management firm he hired that printed a biography of him and sent it out that said he was born in Mexico.

What is the premise of your assertion he was?

 

You mean winning the Nobel prize for doing nothing? Restarting a program to catch Osama after it was determined he was not a real problem anymore spending tax dollars and risking lives to assassinate a man in his jammies? You mean one of the slowest recoveries after a recession rivaling FDR's Great Depression?

The real employment picture.

 

No, considering those questions have been answered. In the case of the publisher's pamphlet, the woman who wrote the bio paragraph admitted her faulty fact-checking and stated that no one from Obama's team gave her that information, and that it was 100% her mistake. Pretty big of her to admit that. In the Vanity Fair situation, they corrected the mistake as soon as they realized it, which unfortunately was quite a bit later, and again stated it was all their fault.

Give me a reason to believe Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii.

Me. I printed something. I'm just as reputable as the message board poster in 2007 who started the birther bull(*)(*)(*)(*), if not more so.

Can you link me to an article from a prominent national magazine saying Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii?

Can you point me to one for Obama, other than the one wherein they admitted their error, insist it was all their fault, and stated they never received any biographical information from him, nor did they send the bio to him for fact checking?

The same as your premise of your assertion (or suspicion) that Obama was born somewhere else.

Can you point me to an official statement by Michigan's creator and guardian of all public health records stating that Romney was born in Michigan? Because I can point you to several regarding Obama's Hawaiian birth.

 

They have NOT been answered.

And where did he "fact" that he was born in Kenya, that she didn't fact check come from? Who told her, and Obama didn't have a "team" back then. He was a guy running for state senator and about to have a book published. It was a mistake does not explain how the mistake was made. ESPECIALLY as anyone who has ever had such a bio published about themselves knows full and well you sign off on them before they are published, that is the KEY FACT CHECK that is made.

And again, did they just make it up? Did they throw a dart and the map and decide we'll just say he grew up there? And what about the subject again signing off on the copy, the KEY FACT CHECK. Why didn't Obama demand a correction then?

Where have I stated he was.

Dodging?

Can you link me to an article from a prominent national magazine saying Romney was born in Mexico?

Dodging again?

Can point me to a literary agent or other personal management firm Romney hired that printed a biography of him and sent it out that said he was born in Mexico.

You have not supported the premise of your assertion. I have post the proof that that misinformation WAS printed about Obama, are you now denying what Vanity Fair and the literary agent printed and released now?

Can you point to me where I have said Obama was not born in Hawaii?

You still don't get what the issue is do you?

It is why all this misinformation, you do get that I am saying the Kenya birth and being raised in Singapore is MISINFORMATION is does that somehow go over your head, derive from. You keep trying to draw some comparison to Romney yet can't point to any such misinformation being printed and doled out about him other than stuff YOU MADE UP.