Embassy: Obama not born in Kenya

Office claims ambassador was speaking about president-elect's father in radio interview

Embassy: Obama not born in Kenya

Posted: November 25, 2008
9:24 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
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A radio interview with Kenyan Ambassador Peter N.R.O. Ogego has been widely publicized since the ambassador called President-elect Barack Obama's Kenyan birthplace a "well-known" attraction – but the embassy is now telling WND the hosts misunderstood his comments.

On Nov. 6, only two days after the election, Detroit radio talk-show hosts Mike Clark and Marc Fellhauer on WRIF's "Mike In The Morning" claimed to be "calling Kenya" but actually called the Embassy of Kenya in Washington, D.C., to speak with Ambassador Ogego.

The radio hosts were surprised when their light-hearted interview with Ogego reignited suspicions that Obama may have been born in Kenya.

An assistant to the ambassador, referring to herself only as "Trudy," confirmed today that Ogego had indeed participated in the radio interview. But she said the show made leading statements and took the following comments out of context.

Clark: "We want to congratulate you on Barack Obama, our new president, and you must be very proud."

Ogego: "We are. We are. We are also proud of the U.S. for having made history as well."

Fellhauer: "One more quick question, President-elect Obama's birthplace over in Kenya, is that going to be a national spot to go visit, where he was born?"

Ogego: "It's already an attraction. His paternal grandmother is still alive."

Fellhauer: "His birthplace, they'll put up a marker there?"

Ogego: "It would depend on the government. It's already well known."

Ogego's assistant insisted he was speaking about Barack Obama Sr., and not President-elect Obama.

WND asked, "Is Obama's birthplace in Kenya?"

The woman replied firmly, "No."

She said she could not say why Ogego responded the way he did, and she promised to have the ambassador call and explain his own comments. The ambassador never returned requests for comment.


The issue of Obama's place of birth has been heating up since WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.

The Hawaii governor claimed to have a valid certificate on file, but he rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the document at its Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born – but a video posted on YouTube features Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah, saying she witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya.

Meanwhile, as many as 17 lawsuits have been springing up across the nation as citizens ask the president-elect to produce the document to show that he is eligible for office.

The Obama campaign has called lawsuits questioning Obama's natural-born citizenship "garbage."

When WND asked a campaign spokeswoman why Obama simply hasn't released the original 1961 certificate of live birth to make the lawsuits go away, she replied, "I have no idea. I think they released what they chose to release, and Hawaii has confirmed that he was born in Hawaii, so I don't know what else you want."

Now, an online petition designed to enlist the public's help in demanding evidence of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the office of the presidency has reached more than 80,000 signatures.

WFIR claims its embassy call has been receiving "a ton of attention" as well. Its website features more than 220 posts on the subject, including the following:

* This was the best! That guy said they're planning on building a monument or something in the place of Obamessiah's birth! IN KENYA! Imagine when the opposition to the obamaniacs really takes hold and they dig up the truth on this. Constitutional crisis … R.I.P. United States of America

* The thing is, there is so much info about him being born in Kenya already that you have to wonder why McCain didn't jump on that bandwagon and run with it. … Maybe they all want him there.

* If what the ambassador said is true then Obama has no right to be president and the election is null and void period!

* These disc jockeys were rude and obnoxious. Clearly, people of limited skills in comedy. But they were able get the ambassador to state that Obama was born in Kenya. If these idiots had any clue as to how handle this subject, they could have followed it up with more incriminating questioning. Oh, well. ... Also, don't get too excited, I've done business in Africa and with a few dollars, you get anyone to say whatever you want and destroy whatever documents you want destroyed, thus covering up any of Obama's possible footprints.

* I think that Obama needs to lay it all out for all to see. Once he proves his natural born status all can forget this thing and we can draw together behind Obama and stop all this. ... I think we are in for a constitutional crisis that may well wipe us out before it is settled. It is not worth the possible outcome to keep this thing going. Obama lay your records out for all to see so we can avoid this crisis and 4 to 8 years of fighting about it.

* The only resolution to this issue is for Obama to release his documents. No matter what your political beliefs and affiliations, it is to your advantage to want Obama to release the documents and put the issue to rest. Support our Constitution. Demand transparency.

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Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'

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Chelsea Schilling is a staff writer for WorldNetDaily.

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