what the heck makes snopes an authority with integrity? and them seemed to have nothing to add to the subject anyway.
it was his literary agent's promotional material.
when your agent promotes you to people in the business ... you are cutting it very fine to say that is not that is a press release.
In fact I know from experience agents create agent rosters and do distribute them in hopes of publicity.
For instance so and so agency just released their roster of talent for 1991. We note a newcomer Harvard Law Grad from Kenya who was head of the law review... etc.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...nt-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
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."
The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.