Posted on 02/20/2008 7:15:31 AM PST by Pinetop
Barack Obama now faces a new challenge - one that is sure to be much more scandalous than anything he's seen so far. If the allegations are to be believed, it's also a scandal that his campaign has tried to cover up. A Minnesota man has come forth, claiming that he took cocaine in 1999 with Obama, the then-Illinois legislator, and participated in homosexual acts with him.
Larry Sinclair, the man making the claims, said his story was ignored by the news media. Still not willing to let this one slip quietly under the rug, Sinclair made a YouTube video in which he made his case. It's had over half a million views already, but the story has still been largely ignored by the news media.
Sinclair's next step was to file a suit in Minnesota District Court, in which he alleges threats and intimidation by the Democratic presidential candidate's staff.
Still out to prove that he is telling the truth, Sinclair said he is willing to submit to a polygraph test. A website (WhiteHouse.com) has come forth offering him $10,000 for the right to record the polygraph test, and another $100,000 if he passes it.
Sinclair lives in Duluth, Minnesota, and in his filing, charges that his civil rights have been violated by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. Obama, David Axelrod of AKP Message & Media in Chicago, and the Democratic National Committee have been named as defendants in the case.
Sinclair, who describes himself as gay, claims they met in an upscale Chicago lounge. They left in Sinclair's limo, where the drug use and sex allegedly took place for the first time. Sinclair says that Obama smoked crack cocaine, and that he snorted powder cocaine provided by Obama.
Sinclair, 46, says that he no longer uses drugs. He claims to be physically disabled, but says that he was not physically impaired in 1999 when they met.
Regarding the claims, Sinclair said:
"My motivation for making this public is my desire for a presidential candidate to be honest. I didn't want the sex thing to come out. But I think it is important for the candidate to be honest about his drug use as late as 1999."
Hey. I live in Duluth , too. Our new mayor up here, Donny Ness, has decided instead of working on the cities problems, such as the benefits for city retirees problem that threatens to drain the city, he is using his office as a “Obama for Prez” headquarters
I hadn’t heard anything about his wife’s past. Details, please.....
Cindy McCain stole drugs and cash from a non-profit charity she ran. She also forged prescriptions on stolen doctor’s pad for her habit. When a guy in the charity discovered her crimes, she fired him. He got the feds involved in the investigation, but John McCain pulled some strings and got her off on restitution and enrollment in drug programs. Without a senator for her husband, she would have landed in prison for a long time.
When the guy she got fired threatened to sue her for wrongful termination, McCain’s pressed the feds to investigate him for extortion. Both the wrongful termination suit and the extortion charges quietly disappeared one day.
Guys, not everything is about politics. Say what you will about Obama’s policies but people cross the line when they start believing anything that anybody says about him personally.
This guy posts a YouTube video with zero proof and people are drinking it up like it is the absolute truth. It is on Sinclair to prove this charge - not on Obama to disprove it.
Could this be true? Sure, but I bet it is not. This should have never been published without facts to support this charge. So far there is no proof - none - that this happened. Just a crazy with a camcorder who is hoping to make some $.
Sad.
They technically didn’t catch him WITH the girl. In fact, there’s no proof he was around when she was dead. She was probably still drowning when he left.
The story is just a .22 short gong off from The Machine.
Just wait...OsamobeBama will receive much worse soon. Do not think Heir Thighness does not have his FBI files and everything else she needs.
Done and I see no reference to any print edition. It's a blog, Jim.
I worked for newspapers and they have online editions similar to this.
Uh huh. Well I understand that it is made to look like a newspaper website, but the problem is, there's no actual newspaper. If you can find evidence to the contrary, I'd love to see it, but I don't think you'll find it.
A Democrat, a car, somebody goes down. Nobody even died this time. How long has Ted Kennedy been in the Senate now?
This is from an internet search:
The CLEVELAND LEADER, one of the city’s major newspapers, grew out of the merger of the True Democrat into Joseph Medill’s DAILY FOREST CITY to form the Forest City Democrat in 1853. EDWIN COWLES†, who joined the new venture as Medill’s partner, changed the name to the Cleveland Leader on 16 Mar. 1854 and shortly thereafter bought out his partners to become the paper’s principal owner and, after 1859, editor. Cowles made the Leader an uncompromising organ for the newly formed Republican party, and with the party’s victory in 1860, the Leader emerged as the local organ for the dominant radical wing. Emerging from the Civil War as Cleveland’s leading daily, the Leader was organized as a joint stock company on 3 July 1865. Its evening edition, begun in 1861 as the Evening Leader, was renamed the Evening News in 1868. By 1875 its circulation of 13,000 was double that of the Herald and 5 times that of the PLAIN DEALER. Cowles kept the paper technologically up to date, importing Cleveland’s first perfecting press in 1877 and pioneering the use of electrotype plates in Ohio. Together with the Plain Dealer, in 1885 the Leader bought out its old rival, the Herald, thus securing the Evening Herald’s AP franchise for its own afternoon edition, which then became the News & Herald. Editorially, the Leader was an extension of its editor’s strong personality.
After Cowles’s death in 1890, the Leader quickly lost its edge in the morning field to the aggressive Plain Dealer. In 1905 it was purchased by CHAS. A. OTIS†, owner of the CLEVELAND NEWS. Otis sold a half-interest in both the News and Leader to Medill McCormick, the son-in-law of MARCUS A. HANNA†. Assuming personal control of the Leader, McCormick moved it from its long-time location on Lower Superior near W. 6th St. to the corner of E. 6th and Superior Ave. In 1909 he leased the Leader to a triumvirate headed by CHAS. E. KENNEDY†. Although Kennedy and his partners streamlined the Leader, the paper was sold in 1910 to McCormick’s brother-in-law DANIEL R. HANNA†, who also purchased the News in 1912. Hanna erected the 14-story Leader Bldg. at the E. 6th and Superior location to house his papers, but the Leader still failed to catch up with the Plain Dealer. On 31 Aug. 1917 the parent Cleveland Co. sold the 6-day Leader to the Plain Dealer, merging the Sunday Leader into the News as the Sunday News-Leader.
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Well they say the death knell for a male politician is to be caught with a live boy or a dead girl.
unless your name is Kennedy
Isn’t tonight a debate between Hill and Obama tonight in Ohio? Be interesting if this is alluded to by Hillary.
I understand all that, but it had nothing to do with my point. My point was identifying a large group of Democrats who will not vote for Obama - racist southern Dems.
I suppose that is true. I’m not sure how many we had on Juanita Broderick and Paula Jones and Kathleen Willy, but I’m guessing it was quite a few.
In other words, there hasn’t been an actual newspaper called the Cleveland Leader in nearly 100 years. My guess is someone just expropriated the name for their blog.
I didn’t know Larry the Cable Guy’s last name was Sinclair.
LOL! Can we say that? YES, WE CAAAAN! (Si, se puede!)
You are free to ignore it.
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