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I heard of it first on FoxNews. It is true and can be found many places. The question always comes back to interpretation. Obama supporters try to say that it was speculation that Obama would win and FARC didn't really set up a meeting with Hugo. Translation from one language to another is sometimes fraught with problems, but from what I read( yes you can search and find the exact verbiage on some sites) , it looks like Obama was the shoe in and he wanted to talk to Hugo Chavez. Keep in mind Hillary was way ahead in the polls at the time.

Here's another interesting link if I can do the link thing.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/is_bill_clinton_a_closet_farc_1.asp

I think this article shows the Dems were working behind the scenes with some unsavories to work with FARC and not just Obama. The famous "Raul Reyes' laptop" can be Googled all day, I just don't have a bonified ABC, NBC, CBS web link( they probably didn't mention it). The laptop was captured, it has many classified objects in it, and the Obama e mail is common knowledge. The argument comes in whether it is damning or not. I for one don't like American Senators contacting America's enemies to make deals behind America's back. That is the problem I had with John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Obama( with Odinga) and many other Dems that are still in office committing treason. Maybe the FARC office pool had five peso's on Obama making president, but it looks to me like there are "unseen hands" at work to stack elections here. When Ted Kennedy went to Moscow to undermine Reagan as president, could it be the same with Hugo Chavez and Obama. It looks as if the deal was Obama would kill the free trade agreement we had with our ONLY real friend in SA, Columbia, for what? A HAND IN THE ELECTION? Who knows, Obama killed the free trade deal early on, now we will have high level talks with Hugo? We have terrorists on a Bahama beech while our CIA is lawyering up? The Poles and Czechs are left in a lurch and we are sucking up to Putin? Israel is on it's own and an adviser says we will shoot down Israeli planes over Iraq headed toward Iran? It is a topsy turvy situation now, comrade.

I agree with you verifying rumors on the web, but some are so "verifiable" that a link to the NY Times is no longer useful. The laptop needed a low profile because they are still using info found on it for intelligence purposes. If we got in a spitting match over here whether Obama was working with Hugo Chavez or not, the laptop wouldn't have produced the freed hostages without a drop of blood being spilled. Now after several months down the road, maybe we could start to explore what's on the laptop without hurting the fight against FARC. Same with Odinga and friends. If Obama broke the Logan Act to help a muslim murderer in Kenya, maybe we could look at the facts without a political overtone to it during an election. If you ask 100 people who Odinga is and why should I care?, you may come up with one or two that can even find Kenya on a map. Also as a reminder, these are his relatives in Africa. Wouldn't you be expected to support your uncle Merv in the city council election? Only problem is your relative lost the election and then started a revolution, beginning with burning down churches with the Christians in them.