Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate (Archived 2004)

The Sunday Standard ^ | June27, 2004 | AP

[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.

[mlo]

"MLO - just because a story doesn't match your warped view of reality as punch-drinking Obot doesn't mean it was a mistake."

Ah, the usual critical ability I see. I don't care what the subject is, a simple throw-away statement by a reporter in the lead of an article isn't evidence. You wouldn't accept it if it was something you didn't agree with.

"The only mistake here is YOU being stupid enough to vote for the liar last November."

And you are as factually reliable as always too. I held my nose and voted for McCain, if you must know. Never voted for a Democrat in my life.

[Drew68]

But...but I’ve seen his online COLB. It states clearly he was born in Hawaii. /s

And according to the same newspaper, he was.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060824041505/http://www.eastandard.net/

From young ‘Barry’ to top American Senator
Mr Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, to a Kenyan father, Mr Barack Hussein Obama, and an American mother, Ms Shirley Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas...

[LucyT]

Hope no one minds this long post.

There are good comments throughout the thread, but just in case everyone doesn't have time to read every comment, check these out.

#66.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362664/posts?page=66#66

#70.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2362664/posts?page=70#70

#153.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2362664/posts?page=153#153

From #156,

Kenyan-born Barack Obama, 45, is already being touted as a challenger to Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.

More here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2362664/posts?page=156#156

Different source:

#159.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2362664/posts?page=159#159

#129 as an fyi, time permitting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2362664/posts?page=129#129

[matt1234]

Only because I was a HUGE fan of Star Trek Next Generation and thought “How could that guy want another woman just to sleep around? His is BEAUTIFUL!”

IIRC, the accusation against Ryan was not that he was womanizing. It was that he wanted to invite one or more men into his sexual relationship with his wife.

[Victory Rocks]

Birthers are so predictable. Raise a few common sense questions and they always resort to their favorite insult.

If birthers are going to engage in name calling, can't they at least come up with something new and original rather than just spewing the word "troll" at those they disagree with?

If Reagan were alive he would be challenging Obama and the Dems with ideas. I can't imagine he would be waisting one second of his time with this birther crap.

[patlin]

This is what is at Phil's site right now in his latest artice:

This just in (h/t SentinelRadio): An archived page from the Nairobi, Kenyan Sunday Standard claims in 2004 that Mr. Obama was Kenyan-born (click image for larger picture): …and could this article be confirming the village from which Mr. Obama could have been born?

There you have it, Phil would have remembered this had he blogged on it before.

[Fu-fu2]

Correct. And that’s why they go after putting their people into those positions first. It’s easy to get anything done “legally” that way. It’s a joke the way our ballot is set up, with a bunch of judges about which the average voter knows nothing.

[kingattax]

ping

[txhurl]

0 tells us in his ‘auto’biography written by Ayers that he had angst not only about his birth certificate, but his parents’ marital legitimacy as well.

Someone in his camp sprung it on him in ‘03 that he was illegible. The rest is coverup and obfuscation, since then.

If we can figure out who all snapped to his ineligibility, and advised Ayers to worry about it, these people are subject to discovery and witness.

[mlo]

"Someone in his camp sprung it on him in ‘03 that he was illegible."

Now illegible he may be. Can't argue with that. If only her were inaudible. That would be cool.

[Vendome]

Here is the original text of the article noticed by "blam", a poster of Free Republic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714603/posts

A black senator with only two years in office has emerged as the outstanding star of the Democrats' campaign for next month's mid-term elections.

Senator Barack Obama is bringing hope to Democrats

Kenyan-born Barack Obama, 45, is already being touted as a challenger to Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.

Here is the "New and edited" version that has remove the reference to Barry O. being "Kenyan Born": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1530762/The-black-senator-who-could-challenge-Hillary.html A black senator with only two years in office has emerged as the outstanding star of the Democrats' campaign for next month's mid-term elections. Barack Obama, 45, is already being touted as a challenger to Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination. As you can see above there is no reference to "Kenyan Born". Also, there is a discrepency in the underlying script and it looks like it was altered in 2008-04-10. Read the posts in the FR link. Funny in hindsight.

[patlin]

In 2004 he was only running for Senator, in 2006 he had aspirations for the White House. Let the cover-up begin.

I always wondered why many claimed Ann could not have given birth in Kenya in 1961. IT WAS 1961...women traveled with their husbands, especially newlyweds.

[Jude in WV]

ping

[Fred Nerks]

THANKS FOR THE PING AND DON’T APOLOGIZE...

anyone who can’t find the time to scroll through a couple of hundred comments and tell the difference between INFORMATION and TROLL BEHAVIOUR isn’t serious anyway.

thanks for what you do Lucy.

[LucyT]

Awww, thank you, Fred.

[rocco55]

Amen to your message to MLO.

See post 166 (a bit more concise).

[Freedom56v2]

Wow, my exact thot after being speechless for about 5 minutes!!!!!!

[BIGLOOK]

Think Alan Keyes also mentioned this conundrum....

Has AP printed a correction yet? It's not too late.

[LucyT]

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Ping to #191.

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[Freedom56v2]

Many need to do a PDF on this—it could very well be scrubbed from internet....