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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Yes—I still think it’s nothing more than the author’s error.
Different authors in the piece you link to. Much less professional style. They spell winning “wining”, for example. Paper prints different stuff.
This is no one’s smoking gun. It’s not meant to be It’s just one more piece in the puzzle.
It adds to the general weight of evidence that America knowns NOTHING about this man.
Why some people can’t just take that at face value baffles me.
bttt
So, MS does this?
For the file
Wow!!!!!!
We need to send this to our local and national talk show hosts.
Wonder what the Obama spin will be.
“famlisearch.com”
Thanks for that. I’ll use it, too. To heck with google.
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