Over 16 Years, Obama’s Literary Agency Circulated Official Biography Between 1991-2007 Listing Birthplace as Kenya, Then Suddenly Changed it to Hawaii Just Before His Presidential Campaign Kicked Off in 2007

According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.

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.

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

Here's "Obama's" BIO as it apperaed in the Harvard Law Review:

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Kenya is part of a region in eastern Africa which is called the Cradle of Mankind. The bones of the first human beings were discovered there. So I guess any person who would start a biography of themselves would be correct by saying they came from Kenya ! 

So I guess we could trace the "Myth" DNA from Kenya to the USA via Mexico !

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The archived Web page from Dystel & Goderich did indeed say, about then-Sen. Obama, what was reported: "He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago." For better or worse, literary biographies are notorious for embroidery and outright lies. This single sentence contains at least two whoppers (other than the birthplace claim).

Barack H. Obama, Sr., was not a "Kenyan finance minister" and Stanley Ann Dunham was not an "anthropologist" when Barack H. Obama, Jr., now the President, was born. Both were instead undergraduates at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Barack H. Obama, Jr., was not "raised" in Chicago. He spent nearly all of his childhood in Hawaii and in Indonesia, except for a stay of about nine months in Seattle, WA, while his mother was enrolled at the University of Washington.

The archived Web page has dozens of other squibs, some palpably false. For example, the one about Cecelia Chiang claims that her San Francisco restaurant was the first there with authentic Sichuan cuisine. We can distinctly remember other Sichuan-style restaurant cooking in the area more than fifty years ago, regretting that there was none of that for us at home. It is possible that Ms. Chiang's restaurant had a more opulent menu than most, but it was hardly the first to serve such dishes in the San Francisco area.

A better tack to take could be to look into who might actually have written Dreams from my Father. Writing in American Thinker, Jack Cashill investigated that in 2008. He finds that Mr. Obama made a most unlikely author, having published almost nothing--including nothing under his own name in Harvard Law Review, even though he served as its president. Anyone taking the care to research the Dystel & Goderich document is likely to find other exaggerations and fabrication, but a key one could be the claim that Mr. Obama wrote the book that was published under his name. [ Jack Cashill, Who wrote Dreams from my Father?, American Thinker, October 9, 2008, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html ]

The archived Web page from Dystel & Goderich did indeed say, about then-Sen. Obama, what was reported: "He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago." For better or worse, literary biographies are notorious for embroidery and outright lies. This single sentence contains at least two whoppers (other than the birthplace claim).

Barack H. Obama, Sr., was not a "Kenyan finance minister" and Stanley Ann Dunham was not an "anthropologist" when Barack H. Obama, Jr., now the President, was born. Both were instead undergraduates at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Barack H. Obama, Jr., was not "raised" in Chicago. He spent nearly all of his childhood in Hawaii and in Indonesia, except for a stay of about nine months in Seattle, WA, while his mother was enrolled at the University of Washington.

The archived Web page has dozens of other squibs, some palpably false. For example, the one about Cecelia Chiang claims that her San Francisco restaurant was the first there with authentic Sichuan cuisine. We can distinctly remember other Sichuan-style restaurant cooking in the area more than fifty years ago, regretting that there was none of that for us at home. It is possible that Ms. Chiang's restaurant had a more opulent menu than most, but it was hardly the first to serve such dishes in the San Francisco area.

A better tack to take could be to look into who might actually have written Dreams from my Father. Writing in American Thinker, Jack Cashill investigated that in 2008. He finds that Mr. Obama made a most unlikely author, having published almost nothing--including nothing under his own name in Harvard Law Review, even though he served as its president. Anyone taking the care to research the Dystel & Goderich document is likely to find other exaggerations and fabrication, but a key one could be the claim that Mr. Obama wrote the book that was published under his name. [ Jack Cashill, Who wrote Dreams from my Father?, American Thinker, October 9, 2008, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html ]