Posted on 10/12/2008 12:36:40 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
The Obama Girlfriend Story: It's Real
I put that link up as mostly just a bit of baiting of Andrew Sullivan.
Having now spoken to someone tracking the story, I can say:
1) It's not just a silly little rumor.
2) It will break in some form shortly. The question is how prestigious an outlet breaks it. (PS, at best, it won't be that prestigious, at least at first, but there's a lot here so when someone finally touches, there is a good chance of an Edwards-like "Oh yeah, we were working on that too" pile-on.) Fire is being held as those who know the story try to get someone of import to break it; if they pass, it will be flooded out through secondary channels.
3) The story has a Fred Baron. Not The Fred Baron. But actually-- an even better Fred Baron. The woman is "working" in the Caribbean drawing a salary from.... uhhh... let's say from someone who is a big, shiny part of the dirty Chicago political machine. And it makes no sense that she's doing her supposed "job," for which she seems unqualified anyway, in the Caribbean, of all places. It's unclear how she could possibly do this job at all, never mind from the Caribbean.
4) This woman was a major, big-time fundraiser. She raised x millions of dollars for various Democratic interests (connected to Obama) and then opened her own shop in DC. Since she was (as any fundraiser does) getting a cut of the take, this was a lucrative job. But she, for reasons unfathomable, suddenly shut the shop down and decamped to a little Caribbean island. And somewhere along the line got a "job" from her own Fred Baron. Which conveniently put her far away from Obama, Michelle, and the media.
5) Within hours of the Daily Mail article breaking, she called the Illinois hq of the Obama campaign. They wouldn't talk to her.
Incidentally, didn't Obama vacation in the Caribbean after he won the primaries...? Oh that's right, he did. I raised this with my source who, alas, hadn't even made that connection.
IMO, there are no undecideds 3 weeks out. Only Uninterested and disinterested voters.
McCain has 3 weeks to give them a reason to get off the sofa and get to the polls on November 4th. I think there is still time.
Sad.
The numbers in 1980 did not shift to Reagan’s favor until the third week in October.
There are more undecideds in this election than any other in history.
I suggest B.O. watch the vid of Jimmie Swaggart confessing his sin to God and the public. It was a 2 hanky event for me (sarc) and the faithful sucked it up. Since they are both in the same business, (working the con) it can work for Bareback Obama. Ya think?
A search for Baker Wambu & Associates is also fruitful. Can’t find a picture yet.
Her name is Vera Baker. This looks to be her firm in the Caribbean.
http://capecaribbean.com/About_Us.html
Exactly. I have to say I am tantalized by that update. Ace has been pretty good with getting juicy scoops. He was ahead on the whole Scott Beauchamps thing.
This actually COULD be something. In any case, every little cut eventually makes a huge gaping wound.
Yeah....he needs to raise people’s emotions the way he did at the end of his acceptance speech at the convention.
Barry seems to be the greatest switch hitter since Mickey Mantle.
self ping for later
During the commercials you are supposed to get a beer or return a beer. During political commercials, returning a beer is more appropriate.
Here’s an article from Minority Professional Network that names her as a contact for a fundraiser for Obama in 2004.
http://www.minorityprofessionalnetwork.com/caldata.asp?id=17828
And another that claims her as Obama’s finance director:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_chairmans_colorful_cabinet
“African American major fund-raisers are also rare. The few that come to mind are Tina Flournoy, who was finance director for Gore in 2000 and is now another Dean DNC adviser; David Mercer and Wayne Marshall, who were senior finance officials at the DNC in previous years; and Vera Baker, who was finance director for Barack Obama’s Senate race.”
He needs to buy some airtime like Obama and put Sarah on for a prime-time speech.
LOL!!! I will keep that in mind in the future! Last time Obama came on during the NFL game, I took the dog outside.
10-4 that!!
BTTT
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