Posted on 10/14/2009 5:51:36 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
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It is nice to see a lot of calmness here. ;-)
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Stop! It was an honest mistake lol
Why is this not in breaking news?
Done
His name was spelled like that in the past; even within the last few years; on one of his own ads. Somewhere in the bowels of FR. 0bama Sr spelled it like that too.
A reporter making a mistake is not exactly news.
He’s wearing dark socks. You can see the wrinkle on his right ankle.
Of course there always is the calm before the storm.
looked like a girl to me. Very Woosy
His online COLB is a clear fake, the watermarks and other hallmarks of a real one clearly show modification, they have been moved and are most likely a modified copy of another.
Second, he has no hospital generated certificate showing the doctor etc.
Hawaii is a very loosey-goosey state and taking that kin of crap at face value is laughable to say the least.
So on what basis were the records of two of his rivals unsealed and there something similar we could use?
What number is that Obama article listed as? There are 1092 articles at that site.
Trust me...I’m NOT encouraging them to show up.
It’s just a little game I play by myself. I try to figure out how long it takes for one of them to show up.
The Daily Telegraph (LONDON)
October 6, 2006 Friday
The black senator who could challenge Hillary
BYLINE: Alex Massie in Washington
SECTION: NEWS; International; Pg. 18
LENGTH: 310 words
A BLACK senator with only two years in office has emerged as the star of the Democrats' campaign for next month's mid-term elections.
Kenyan-born Barack Obama, 45, is already being touted as a challenger to Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
Another scenario sees him as Mrs Clinton's running mate, raising the possibility of a first female president and first black vice-president in 2008.
Mr Obama is disproving the adage that Washington is "Hollywood for ugly people''.
He is the Denzil Washington of Capitol Hill, bringing glamour to the staid hallways of the Senate. This week, he was given the ultimate glamour accolade: the front cover of Men's Vogue.
Accompanied by pictures taken by Annie Liebowitz, photographer to the great and glamorous, the magazine's article is headlined Barack Obama: The Path to Power.
Mr Obama has been careful not to rule himself out of the presidential race and has been tagged for greatness since he delivered the best speech at the Democratic convention in Boston two years ago.
"What gives people a jolt in their gut about the idea of President Obama is that it would be a ringing symbol that racism no longer rules our land,'' argues John McWhorter, a leading black intellectual.
Mr Obama, a civil rights lawyer, was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Some observers say he possesses charisma on a par with Mrs Clinton's husband Bill, the last Democrat president.
He was elected as a senator for Illinois in 2004 by a landslide.
He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, and promises the prospect of national reconciliation on racial issues.
The prospect of an Obama candidacy is especially appealing to those Democrats desperately searching for an alternative to Mrs Clinton, the front-runner to win her party's presidential nomination.
LOAD-DATE: October 6, 2006
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper
Copyright 2006 Telegraph Group Limited
All Rights Reserved
Well his US birth announcement was good enough to prove that he was born in the US. No mistake there.
I would say that this article was printed before O had the power to suppress the news.
BBC Monitoring Africa – Political
Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
March 23, 2006 Thursday Kenyan-born US senator "exploring ways" of helping home province
LENGTH: 137 words
Text of report by Kenyan newspaper The Standard website on 23 March
Illinois Senator Barrack Obama is exploring ways of using his influence in the US to increase funding for various projects he sponsors in Nyanza Province.
Obama's foreign policy adviser, Mark Lippert, who toured some of the projects sponsored through Care International, said the senator was particularly keen on the welfare of people in Siaya, where his father hailed from.
Lippert disclosed that he had been sent by Obama on a fact finding mission on the success and impact of US sponsored HIV/AIDS programmes and other development projects in the area.
"I will let him know how funds from the American government are being spent on a range of projects that he has been having interest in," he added.
Source: The Standard website, Nairobi, in English 23 Mar 06
In the Senate race, his opponent’s divorce records were unsealed by a corrupt Chicago judge, presumably on orders from Mayor Daley.
In his first State Assembly race, earlier, two opponents were thrown out by a corrupt judge who claimed they had faked the signatures on their nominating petitions. Both opponents were black and, as I recall, one was the former incumbent. So he won his first race unopposed.
The birth announcements came from the state.
"I would say that this article was printed before O had the power to suppress the news."
A more reasonable view would be that a reporter made a simple assumption when Obama's history was much less well known. Especially since there is no evidence to confirm it.
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