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.
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.
nh-obama.jpg (12114 bytes) Barrack Obama
"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 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, "There’s no breaking of any laws. There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere."
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama
Of course they knew...but when your goal is the complete and utter destruction of America you let things like this pass.
My, oh my...how we forget!
It was in the papers....
Worst part? No one has done anything with it! Front and center, it was in the media back then.....
My, oh my...how we forget!
It was in the papers....
Worst part? No one has done anything with it! Front and center, it was in the media back then.....
“Kenyan-born...”
Isn’t it nice to be ruled by an anti-American foreign national whose allegiance is external to the country.
The Kenyan Kommunist Kaliph reigns!
But I believe it’s God’s judgment on this shameful nation. We are getting exactly the leadership we deserve. Not all of us, but most of us. It was a majority, after all, that voted for the Kommunist Kenhan Kaliph.
unbelievable.
This article has been posted before. Don’t remember what excuse the obots gave but they made excuses.
the media know damn well where he was born , they know there are questions out there about his birth and they would go to Kenya and ask why his family there keep saying why was be born there.
notice how with every other president the media does a back ground history growing up video of them but now with obama.
journalists today for the most part are not journalists but groupies and dopes who have an agenda and use their position to push and agenda
Of course you are correct. This was also published in the Chicago Sun-Times when he was running for Senate in the corrupt State of Illiois. The cover-up continues!! So much for upholding the Constitution.
ping
Come on, folks, there’s no evidentiary value in what a clueless reporter put in their lead sentence in 2004. Don’t get me wrong, I strongly suspect that Obama was NOT born in Hawaii and has no Hawaii long form BC. He’s hiding a pile of records and is not on the level. But this story doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
Ping ( I’m curious to see what the afterbirthers will post about this.)
It’s coming.
This is very very alarming to me.
Just the thought of how many people it’s taken to cover this up.
Huge conspiracy.
If this is all true, it’s nothing more than a direct covert attack on the security of our nation.
How can anyone look at it any other way.
A deliberate attempt to tear down the foundations of this nation by usurping the constitution.
If you ever watched the Congressional C-Span programming, you would know that congress critters demand inquests based upon reported material in major newspapers. It is the feckless Republicans who are too timid to pick up the ball and raise the noise level based upon the exact same thing democrats use to cower the pansy pubbies daily!
Snopes is run by Obama supporters David and Barbara Mikkelson. Do a search on FR for snopes info. They are biased lefties.
“Come on, folks, there’s no evidentiary value in what a clueless reporter put in their lead sentence in 2004. “
Yep, Just like 0bama’s newspaper birth announcements in 1961.
We need some state legislation requiring proof of citizenship as well as medical and academic records for anyone standing for POTUS.
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