Since it'll be a comedy, how about:
Rachel Dratch
Or Amy Poehler
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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If it is NONSENSE please explain the passport witness murder in post # 25 and why a Kenya newspaper originated this and deleted it?
Roads and Public Works minister Raila Odinga was yesterday accused of grabbing the Kisumu Molasses Plant land. But in a quick response the Odinga family defended Raila against the claims by Local Government Assistant minister Maina Kamanda and explained that the land had been acquired legally.
Kamanda had said that having conducted a search at the Ministry of Lands, he had established that the land on which the molasses plant had been transferred to Raila’s company, Spectre International Limited.
He produced copies of a letter by the Commissioner of Lands, Mrs J. Okungu, dated November 21, 2003, stating that the title to the land had been issued to Spectre International Limited. The assistant minister asked when the land had been advertised and described the transaction as a fraud. "Why are you press people describing some people as clean. Is this not corruption?" he asked? But contacted to comment on the allegations, Bondo MP Oburu Odinga — who is the chairman of Spectre International and Raila’s elder brother — said all transactions involving the molasses deal were done above board and termed Kamanda’s remarks "malicious". The allegations were intended to "hit the Odinga family below the belt", he added.
Good links that show this is not nonsense as the two posters in this thread have noted.
Somebody is lying. Why was there a passportgate related murder?
Common sense prevails on this issue that it is not nuts that Obama is most likely the liar of an issue that won’t be solved nor go away.
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/president-obama-admitted-he-waskenyan-born/
LOL!
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That hasn’t been true since, like June. But suit yourself - keep giving the search engine with a leftist agenda your business.
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And Microsoft isn’t leftist? In Seattle? Gates gives a boatload of money to way left orgs. I’d like it to be true – I’d use any of the string of failed MS search engines just based on that. I don’t believe that to be the case, however.
Because the story in its original format was printed here over a year ago and it turned out that African Press (the AP) here was the author. If you check back you can see that AP promised all sorts of bloc buster news before the election—any day now—and it never appeared. It’s a HOAX.
So your answer to:
“As long as there is dialog about it. The ballot box is the real impeacher. What’s your problem with that?”
is:
“Because the story in its original format was printed here over a year ago and it turned out that African Press (the AP) here was the author.”
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OK, well it’s catching fire BIG on the net right now, so that’s great that FR was 1 year ahead of the curve. Do you have a link please?
“AP promised all sorts of bloc buster news before the election—any day now—and it never appeared. It’s a HOAX.”
If some African news org promised blockbuster news and it didn’t appear, that doesn’t mean anything of the kind! The only person who could have told us for sure, 0’s “racist white grandmother” conveniently died during the election too. Was that a hoax?
The one thing you’re saying doesn’t link properly with the other things you say, even though you have connectives between them, and you answer questions with statements as if you’re answering the question. That’s a style of writing I most often associate with leftards on forums that aren’t as careful as FR!
Since it'll be a comedy, how about:
Rachel Dratch
Or Amy Poehler
Tell you what—although I think even if real AP)assocaited press) had run that story it would be meaningless as evidence of anything, why not contact the Associated Press and see if it was their story. If they confirm it was, let me know and I’ll cotribute $10 to your favorite charity.
And while you’re at is contact the Sunday Standard (it’s in Nairobi but online contact info seems to be possible) and see if they ran it. The’r format today appears far different than it does in this link but that might simply represent a format change.OTOH it could simple add to the hoax.
The Sunday Standard archives return nothing when a search for this article is done. Now, their online archives could be incomplete..so why not write and ask them?
Both excellent choices.
Why don’t you respond to any of my questions/points!? Where is the FR link?
A lot of different writers are “AP” writers. This could easily have been an AP writer but the story was only meant for Kenyan consumption - that happens a lot.
Of course AP isn’t going to own up to the story either way, duh.
It doesn’t really matter. Whoever wrote the story was under the full conviction that this guy’s a Kenyan, fully FIVE years ago. That adds something to the debate.
Doesn’t matter. I do business with leftists all the time, or at least the ones that keep their leanings out of the business transaction.
I was afraid no one was going to pick up on that. Hope doth spring eternal on this topic, though.
By November, 2004, this same paper had already dropped the "born in Kenya" angle (most likely because they realized they were in error unless one is a birther in which case this is all part of the Great Conspiracy).
...It is not clear what Obama’s foreign policy agenda as a senator will be, particularly whether he will push for more American involvement in Africa, especially Kenya, his father’s home...
No mention Obama was born in Kenya. Only his father. Did they somehow forget to include this?
From the web archives of the paper—here is the Sunday June 27, 2004 edition: http://web.archive.org/web/20040627044226/http://eastandard.net/
I do not see this story there.
On the page you linked, if one hits “home” BTW, you get a header Monday July 26, 2004.
It’sa not dispositive but adds further to mu belief that this is a hoax.
The old FR links were to a series of African Press pieces respecting Michelle Obama dropping a similar bombshell now that I think of it.
When the Associated press does a piece, IIRC it says so at the top, not the bottom of the piece. Check and see. Ditto with Reuters, etc.
This AP is at the bottom of tha article. Assuming this is a legitimate article from the Sunday Standard in Nairobi which somehow was not archived with the rest of that edition, I think AP may be the initials of the author.
Well, now that I read the front page of the archived piece I do see the Obama article which I’d earlier missed.
It does seem the Sundary Standard published that but I stick to my belief that 9a) AP at the end is not Associated Press and (b) the article is not evidence of anything.
One thing you need to understand is that whatever it is, it is not a hoax. This is material from 5 years ago, long before anyone gave a crap about Obama.
The wayback machine has been around a very long time and is reliable. The front page has a different date because that is the date it was archived.
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