The Consequences of Hate

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy ... not

The Hater author of a smear piece attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya on Tuesday, a criminal investigations official said.

Jerome Corsi, who penned the pack of lies "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was picked up by police Tuesday for not having a work permit, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.

He was briefly detained at immigration headquarters before being brought to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for deportation, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

It was not immediately clear when he would fly out.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the campaign had no comment.

Corsi had been scheduled to launch his book Tuesday in Kenya, where the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is wildly popular. Obama's late father, whom he barely knew, was a Kenyan economist and the candidate is considered by many Kenyans as a native son. Minibuses are emblazoned with his picture and vendors sell T-shirts bearing his image.

Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas.

Corsi's slander piece claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendos and false rumors - that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.

Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and his campaign picks apart the rag's claims on the Obama campaign's rumor-fighting Web site, FightTheSmears.com.

He arrived last week at the invitation of radical fundamentalist christian missionaries angered by the rise of Islam. Corsi had planned to spew daily Hate missives throughout the week.

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Kismet like Karma can be a bitch, there buddy.