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Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate (Archived 2004)
The Sunday Standard ^ | June27, 2004 | AP

Posted on 10/14/2009 5:51:36 PM PDT by SvenMagnussen

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To: wintertime; SvenMagnussen
So?...How does Sven know that Obama was Kenyan born? Did he see a birth certificate?

Sven posted an article...what's your problem??

81 posted on 10/14/2009 6:34:41 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: dandiegirl
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.

Which is pretty frickin' scary. This is why I worry about 2012 so much.....BO will never will election fairly but with ACORN and SEIU...he's a lock. We will never survive if he has 2 terms!

82 posted on 10/14/2009 6:34:42 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: mlizzy
"English-language daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in Mombasa in 1902 as a weekly, the African Standard, by A.M. Jeevanjee, an Indian merchant. Jeevanjee hired an English editor-reporter, W.H. Tiller, to oversee the newspaper’s operations. In 1910 the paper became a daily, changed its name to the East African Standard, and moved to Nairobi, which was then fast developing as a commercial centre. It had already come under British ownership. In its early years the paper defended the interests of Kenya’s white settlers, but by the 1970s it had developed a more balanced approach to news reporting and had built a reputation for fine writing and technical excellence. After independence the paper retained the freedom to publish but was not allowed to criticize the government’s single political party or its leaders." Source
83 posted on 10/14/2009 6:35:19 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: newfreep
Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket
84 posted on 10/14/2009 6:35:28 PM PDT by wndawmn666
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To: cripplecreek

lol!!


85 posted on 10/14/2009 6:35:39 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: mlizzy
URL to article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
86 posted on 10/14/2009 6:35:48 PM PDT by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Fu-fu2

They should come out and tell what BO did to them.


87 posted on 10/14/2009 6:35:53 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: LucyT

ping


88 posted on 10/14/2009 6:36:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (Nominated:Chamberlain, Hitler, Stalin. Winners: Arafat,Carter, Gore, Obama.(Nobel Prizes of Shame))
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To: SvenMagnussen

What still amazes me is how much I knew about this back when it happened. 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!”


89 posted on 10/14/2009 6:36:52 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: SvenMagnussen
"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."

Everyone here knows Obama insisted all records be public about the divorce even when his advisors told him he could not do that?

90 posted on 10/14/2009 6:38:02 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: randomhero97
I’m surprised this article hasn’t been scrubbed yet.

They missed one?

91 posted on 10/14/2009 6:39:10 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: newfreep

Posted on: Sunday, January 8, 2006

Duckworth working to win

By Will Hoover
Advertiser Staff Writer

Congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth works the phones at her campaign headquarters in Lombard, Ill. Since she announced her candidacy last month, the 1985 McKinley High School graduate has shown herself willing to work hard and speak her mind.

Peter Thompson

Tammy Duckworth, shown at a news conference at the Helen M. Plum Memorial Library in Lombard, Ill., is focused on her new goal: winning the 6th District U.S. House seat in Illinois as a Democrat. Democrats are targeting the seat, long held by Republican Harry Hyde.

Peter Thompson

Tammy Duckworth, shown speaking with campaign workers at her campaign headquarters in Lombard, Ill., brings an intense focus blended with a keen sense of humor to her latest mission: running for Congress.

Peter Thompson

Duckworth, shown in McKinley High School’s 1985 yearbook, was an honor student and athlete.

McKinley High School

Illinois Army National Guard Maj. L. Tammy Duckworth sat in a wheelchair at the paper-strewn kitchen table in her suburban Chicago home doing what she seems to do better than most mortals: focusing totally on the task at hand.

She worked the phones for hours Wednesday as part of her effort to get herself elected to Congress — reaching out to dozens of mayors, union officials and everyday voters.

Somehow, she’s able to stay focused and find humor simultaneously. She has a knack for instantly putting people at ease with what some call her disability — the fact that she lost both her legs in Iraq 418 days before.

Pausing between calls, Duckworth noted that her high-tech artificial legs were in the closet “charging up.” What she called her “left stump” was propped up on the table.

“That’s my way of kicking back,” she said with an infectious laugh. “I know, the politically correct term is residual limb. But that’s just way too many syllables, and I figure it’s mine. I can call it what I want.”

Duckworth’s Iraq experience already is the stuff of American military lore.

On Nov. 12, 2004, her entire focus was on not losing consciousness while trying to safely land a Black Hawk helicopter. It had been blasted by a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded where Duckworth was seated. The maneuver was an impossible feat with two missing legs, a shattered right arm, and a multitude of other serious injuries.

Another pilot landed the helicopter. But Duckworth, not realizing how seriously she’d been hurt, kept her attention on the mission, passing out only when the Black Hawk was on the ground. Initially presumed dead, Duckworth remained unconscious for the next 10 days.

Her focus for the better part of 2005 included staying alive, undergoing intense therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and painstakingly learning to walk again on artificial legs.

She is on record as saying she’s determined to fly helicopters again.

Duckworth knows that political pundits are focused on her. As a Democratic candidate in a historically Republican district trying to win the House seat being vacated by retiring Republican icon Henry Hyde, her 6th District race is becoming a Democratic Party priority and a talking point among political heavyweights.

“Very rarely have I met a more impressive person than Tammy Duckworth,” said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in an article the day before she announced her candidacy Dec. 18. “She just has the poise and exudes the type of character that I think would make her an astounding public servant.”

Duckworth is happy to point out that she and Hawai’i-raised Punahou graduate Obama have “a kama’aina connection.”

Both were born outside the country — Obama in Indonesia, Duckworth in Thailand — and graduated from high school in Honolulu — Punahou and McKinley, respectively.

“The big thing for me is that I’m a McKinley High grad,” said Duckworth. “That gives you a lot of street creds. I wasn’t a rich kid.”

Born in Bangkok on March 12, 1968, when her father was there working with a United Nations refugee program, Duckworth spent much of her childhood in Southeast Asian countries. Along with her parents, Franklin and Lamia Duckworth, and her younger brother, Tommy Duckworth, she arrived in Hawai’i at age 16. An honors student, she skipped ninth grade and graduated in 1985.

Richard Sakamoto, Duckworth’s high school principal, remembers her as the sort of student any educator would hope to find in the classroom — multitalented, determined and bound for success.

“She was one of the best students, because of her determination,” said Sakamoto, who had breakfast with Duckworth when she returned to Hawai’i in September to attend a wedding and to speak at a women’s leadership conference.

“She was something else, very intelligent, very goal-oriented. She was an athlete. She participated in basketball, volleyball and track.”

And according to Duckworth, she was and still is a girly girl. A photo of her looking stylish and feminine in a short satin dress appears in the 1985 McKinley High yearbook, for which Duckworth wrote the epilogue.

Another yearbook picture of her throwing a discus offers a different perspective. The accompanying caption reads: “Tammy Duckworth proves that females are more than equal to the task.”

Duckworth, who holds a master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Hawai’i in 1989.

UH political science professor Ira Rohter said she was a noticeable presence even then.

“Here was somebody who stood out and was asking questions,” said Rohter, who recalls having Duckworth in one of his courses.

“She was inquisitive. There was a critical analysis. She was one of those people who read the material and then would talk and argue with you about it.”

Rohter said he’s not surprised now to find Duckworth on the national stage.

“I think she has a sophisticated understanding of what’s going on,” he said. “I’m intrigued with what it is that she wants to accomplish.”

On the local level in Illinois, Duckworth wants to accomplish the sorts of things that matter to the people in the 6th District — better education, higher-paying jobs for young graduates, and affordable healthcare.

And she isn’t shy about speaking her mind on controversial subjects. Duckworth talks about what she sees as a lack of leadership in Washington, D.C., record federal debt and bad fiscal policies that benefit the rich.

“Invading Iraq was a mistake,” she says on her Tammy Duckworth for Congress Web site. “We should have focused our military resources instead on pursuing the terrorists who attacked our country and on capturing Osama Bin Laden.”

Once she was discharged from active duty in late December, Duckworth was no longer restricted from making political statements. She remains in the Illinois National Guard on a Continuation On Active Reserve status — one of two severely injured soldiers given that special status, she said.

Out of uniform, she’ll say what’s on her mind, taking her cues largely from those who know firsthand what she’s been through.

“I have a lot of respect for that World War II generation who came back from the war and changed this country,” said Duckworth, whose husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, is a captain in the Army National Guard.

“Sen. Daniel Inouye was in that generation. Bob Dole and John F. Kennedy were in that generation.”

Duckworth’s dad, a Marine who received a Purple Heart for wounds received in Okinawa and the driving influence of her life, was of that generation. He died of heart failure on Jan. 28, 2005.

His daughter has nothing but praise for her fellow soldiers in the Middle East who she says risk their lives daily, watch their buddies get killed, and then keep going the next day.

“What’s happened is they’ve done their duty, but the politicians have failed them,” she said.

Too many legislators don’t have a personal stake in the decision process — their sons aren’t serving, Duckworth said. And that’s why she remains in the military.

“Because if I get into Congress, the next time they decide whether or not to send troops into battle, I want to be there to make that decision.

“At least my butt will be on the line. I’m not just going to send somebody else. I’m going to be sending myself.”

As for those who might criticize her views as somehow unpatriotic, Duckworth said bring it on.

“I’ve already had an RPG blow up in my lap,” she said. “After that, take your best shot. I’m going to get up and fight for what I think is right.”

Reach Will Hoover at whoover@honoluluadvertiser.com.

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92 posted on 10/14/2009 6:40:13 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: LucyT
Whoa, what a find!

Interesting that the usual pests haven't shown up yet....

Back to check in a little later

93 posted on 10/14/2009 6:41:03 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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To: hiho hiho

From your source>

“Duckworth is happy to point out that she and Hawai’i-raised Punahou graduate Obama have “a kama’aina connection.”

Both were born outside the country — Obama in Indonesia, Duckworth in Thailand — and graduated from high school in Honolulu — Punahou and McKinley, respectively.

“The big thing for me is that I’m a McKinley High grad,” said Duckworth. “That gives you a lot of street creds. I wasn’t a rich kid.”


94 posted on 10/14/2009 6:41:10 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: Krodg

Sven posted an article...what’s your problem??
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Sorry, Sven!

Problem: Carelessness and too quick of a posting finger!


95 posted on 10/14/2009 6:41:13 PM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Cicero
The web.archive.org is a web time machine. Honestly, it just records sites (snap shots) as they were way back when.

Look here: Free Republic Jan 5, 2001

It does not lie
96 posted on 10/14/2009 6:41:30 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (We the people, ..... never)
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To: SvenMagnussen

This must be verified. Wow, 2010 retake congress, 2011 impeachment.


97 posted on 10/14/2009 6:41:38 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: Cicero

I just don’t see how these people sleep at night.


98 posted on 10/14/2009 6:42:30 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: LA Woman3

From the Source Code of the page this snippet is interesting:

“East African Standard Online Edition - Elections 2002 Coverage.”

My nose tells me this is bogus. Although I would like it to be real.


99 posted on 10/14/2009 6:44:41 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: SvenMagnussen

bump


100 posted on 10/14/2009 6:45:09 PM PDT by xero
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