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

To: Two Kids' Dad

Sometimes local libraries will give you access to newspaper archives for free. They’ll either give you access from your home computer or you have to go to their computer lab.

61 posted on 10/14/2009 6:17:20 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)

62 posted on 10/14/2009 6:18:26 PM PDT by omega4179 (pos approval rating -11)

Oh my!!!! There is certainly more.

63 posted on 10/14/2009 6:18:31 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support Our Military or Leave)

I wish Ryan would come out and remind everyone why he wasn’t in the race against BO. BO was lying back then too. He didn’t feel sorry for him one bit as he had the papers unsealed.

64 posted on 10/14/2009 6:18:48 PM PDT by dandiegirl

To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; mojitojoe

Don’t you mean Bob Barr at the bar with Loren from the Bar (Association)? snorkle snort!

65 posted on 10/14/2009 6:18:52 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)

To: SvenMagnussen

66 posted on 10/14/2009 6:19:24 PM PDT by Joiseydude (I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. Live free or die.)

One report says Kenya, the other Indonesia.....any way to contact the people who wrote the reports and ask what their sources were?

67 posted on 10/14/2009 6:20:20 PM PDT by Fu-fu2

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

"It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race," Ryan, 44, said in a statement. "What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play."

Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was "truly outrageous" that the Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records.

The Republican choice will become an instant underdog in the campaign for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, since Obama held a wide lead even before the scandal broke.

"I feel for him actually," Obama told a Chicago TV station. "What he’s gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody."

The Republican state committee must now choose a replacement for Ryan, who had won in the primaries against seven contenders. Its task is complicated by the fact that Obama holds a comfortable lead in the polls and is widely regarded as a rising Democratic star.

The chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party, Judy Topinka, said at a news conference, after Ryan withdrew, that Republicans would probably take several weeks to settle on a new candidate.

"Obviously, this is a bad week for our party and our state," she said.

As recently as Thursday, spokesmen for the Ryan campaign still insisted that Ryan would remain in the race. Ryan had defended himself saying, "There’s no breaking of any laws. There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere."

—AP

News Headlines | Home Page

Copyright © 2004 . The Standard Ltd

68 posted on 10/14/2009 6:20:23 PM PDT by LA Woman3 (The race card has jumped the shark......)

Obama lighting up a fag (in an undated photo) in Kenya.

69 posted on 10/14/2009 6:21:50 PM PDT by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)

I remember reading somewhere last year that Alan Keyes raised the question of Obama’s citizenship back in that senate race, and demanded to see his birth certificate. But it didn’t go anywhere.

Of course Kenya was proud that its native son was running for the Senate in the U.S.

Curiously, the article touches on the dirty Fitzgerald business. Obama’s corrupt Chicago associates eliminated all the opposition when he first ran for the state assembly earlier. And a corrupt Chicago judge violated all reasonable legal principles when he opened Fitzgerald’s divorce records so the press could smear him. Keyes entered at the last minute in the midst of a scandal and never managed to catch up.

No doubt such shennanigans are standard practice in Kenya, as in Chicago. Because the reporter sees nothing wrong with what happened and quotes Obama’s words of sympathy as if he really meant it.

70 posted on 10/14/2009 6:22:35 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)

To: hiho hiho; pissant

Both were born outside the country — Obama in Indonesia,

BTTT

71 posted on 10/14/2009 6:24:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)

To: Fu-fu2; Joiseydude

The Honolulu paper linked in POST #49 would probably add more credibility vs. the Kenyan article.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.html

Can anyone post that article on this thread ala POST #66?

72 posted on 10/14/2009 6:24:20 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)

To: randomhero97

I’m surprised this article hasn’t been scrubbed yet.

I e-mailed this to a few people, but used a screen capture, rather than relying on the site to be there tomorrow.

73 posted on 10/14/2009 6:27:32 PM PDT by Bearshouse

My understanding is that 0 was the cause of the leak. To say “I feel for him” is quite a bold faced lie, in that case.

74 posted on 10/14/2009 6:28:09 PM PDT by the anti-liberal

Screen shot soon to be saved and have Mozilla scrapbooked the page too.

75 posted on 10/14/2009 6:30:31 PM PDT by Red Steel

76 posted on 10/14/2009 6:31:57 PM PDT by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)

Curiouser and curiouser.

77 posted on 10/14/2009 6:32:15 PM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)

So if 0bambi is’t eligible to be president...his Nobel prize has to be given back....after all....it was awarded for meritorious service as president for 12 days...

78 posted on 10/14/2009 6:32:38 PM PDT by spokeshave (Obama can't unjump the shark "Obama Wa Nobel-sho Ni Ataeshinai" ("Obama Unworthy of Nobel Prize"))

To: the anti-liberal

If you check the wiki info on Ryan, it says the Chicago Tribune and the ABC local tv affiliate pushed for the release of the records. Valerie Jarrett has family ties to the Trib.

79 posted on 10/14/2009 6:33:51 PM PDT by Fu-fu2

To: the anti-liberal

Waiting on the Dan Rather / Mary Maples investigative reporting.

80 posted on 10/14/2009 6:33:58 PM PDT by TexasCajun

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794