Posted on 07/07/2010 6:51:19 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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.
Ryans 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.
nh-obama.jpg (12114 bytes) Barrack Obama
"Its 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 hes gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldnt 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, "Theres no breaking of any laws. Theres no breaking of any marriage laws. Theres no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere."
Where is the Sunday Standard published?
Besides adding fuel to the BC/native-born controversy, this causes me to wonder even more about the circumstances that led BHO from unknown “community organizer” to the Presidency.
I'd believe that COULD be possible if there weren't Hawaiian articles stating Bam is foreign born. They've been posted too. With the same results, "the reporter's clueless".
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O’Reilly could ask Pelosi what evidence she had to affirm Obama as an eligible candidate. I’d really like to see Pelosi on the hot seat on this. Isn’t there one member of congress that will ask? What did she know and when did she know it?
Application: Even a clueless reporter will occasionally state the truth, if only by accident.
The clincher for me was bookmarked articles that disappeared. Or were changed.
Just reminding us how Obama had never fairly won an election. Rather, he had his opponents destroyed so he could sail through without opposition.
Yes, I know all about Snopes, Factcheck (Annenberg), etc. They even “prove” that obama never was a muslim, when it is becoming more and more obvious from his own words and actions that he is one now!
However, the info highlighted in this post is from a Kenyan newspaper that altered an AP article to stress “local pride”. There are plenty of other Kenyan sources that say that obama was born in Kenya, but few if any credible sources from outside Kenya.
Wherever obama was born, he is NOT culturally American. And the “natural born citizen” issue with respect to his dual-national parentage is up for debate.
It is quite evident why he and his accomplices are spending
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to keep his records sealed.
THIS MUST BE STOPPED!! Who if any, in the House or Senate, has the balls to take this guy on on the Floor?
Has it occurred to you that the original AP article read the same and it was altered? Yes. It's been done. There are screen shots of "before and after" articles.
And if you know Snopes isn't reliable, why post it. You might as well post propaganda directly from the WH.
I'm no "obot", but, as much as I'd love to learn that he was born in Kenya, I won't take the East Africa Standard as my source.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that, in this case, "AP" stands for African Press or some, such thing. Come on people -- don't be gullible.
Nobody in DC will do anything. Who has hands clean enough to take the fallout? Bam got Ryans records unsealed. Nobody in DC is clean enough to do it.
Yeah and darn those Hawaiian articles that said he was foreign born! Can’t ANY of them tell the truth?! /s
Btw, lefty Snopes said it's an Associated Press article that was altered. MMM, sure.
The article above was published in the Kenya Standard Times newspaper. Their reporter added the lead-in sentence about Obama to the original AP wire story written by Maura Lannan. (And the KST reporter misspelled "Barrack.")
The original, unaltered AP story is here. It did not contain the made-up lead-in sentence.
If you have access to a LexisNexis search, you can search the archives to find the original article.
You can confirm that for yourself without much effort.
Have a nice day.
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