Posted on 10/18/2009 7:17:19 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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
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I felt that this article, although 5 years old, deserves “frontpage” status. If not, please feel free to remove the “frontpage” topic!
So - This is an AP article - should be thoroughly researched and apparently not ever disputed by obama. hmm...
It’s had front page status for the past few days. If anyone is interested in other comments click the following for links to them.
It wouldn't shock me to learn that the fresh prince of Bill Ayres , Kenyan born Barry Soetoro's campaign had a judge on the payroll who unsealed these records. The Chicago way.
This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen” and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency” self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office.
Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.
The difficulty in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.
hmmm hmmm hmmm ... I am surprised this is still available. Great find.
I still think the Honolulu Advertizer story is far more interesting. Especially since they’ve seen fit to edit and re-edit a story from 2006, today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363137/posts
KENYAN BORN!
Can’t the GOP or SOMEONE DO SOMETHING WITH THIS?
Or have we become cowwards?
Google definitely favors the LEFT.
Thanks For the link.
BTW- ever notice that in 2004 it was all Bush's fault, and stories about lacking body armor, un-armored HMMWV’s, etc. dominated the news, but when a Democrat Congress and President divert 2.3 Billion for Iraq and Afghanistan to pet projects this hardly gets coverage. That when a President never visits Iraq or Afghanistan, hardly visits the bases of deploying troops, cancels FCS, cuts on F22 and missile defense, as well as in programs like rapid fielding initiatives intended to bring the hardware war-fighters need to those places we're fighting in............ that none of this gets any large-scale coverage. Go back to 2004-2005 and look at how body armor alone dominated the press and they used this to beat up the then reigning administration!
“Google definitely favors the LEFT.”
I use famlisearch.com
SAVE
Wouldn’t AP have fought that as a trademark issue?
Try running that same search on Bing.
Just sayin’.
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