AP
Declared Obama Kenyan Born!
What most people know is that the Associated
Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news
services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.
How so? Because in a syndicated report,
published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was,
as of this report, available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
The AP reporter stated the following:
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama,
appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack
Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club
allegations.
This report explains the context of the oft
cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall,
in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in
which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator,
not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the
office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a
story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign
in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out
in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.