Does anyone remember Jack Ryan and Obama's Senate run four years ago?

23 August 2008 | Vanity

[Mr. Silverback]

I remember it well. I met Jack Ryan early in the primary process and was impressed. What happened to him was tragic, and when Jeri Ryan came out and said her ex-husband would make an outstanding Senator, I could tell she was thinking, "Oh boy, I screwed up."

Here's a story from later in the race. Obama visited Freeport for a rally at the public library with Dick Durbin in tow, so I, my wife and some pro-life friends went down to greet him. We were waiting for two hours before he got there and had lots of exchanges with local Dems. There was this one guy who kept going into the library and then coming out to lay a real crusher of a comment on us, and every single time my wife smacked him down. Here's a typical exchange:

Dem dipstick: Hey, let's all go to the sex shops like JACK RYAN!! [This was accompanied by hand motions and hip swivels that were just short of public indecency]

My wife: No, that's all right sir, you can go on ahead. We aren't into that sort of thing.

He wandered off, completely confused. Man, I love that girl!

[Bender2]

When you look at nObma's very short political campaign record, the dirty Chicago Style Campaign tactics are stark, except the one time they came back to bite him. The only time he went up against an opponent that he couldn't knock out of the race, 2000 House Race against Bobby Rush, Obama lost.

From http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html: "In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama: "In 2000, [Obama] lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.

As described on this thread, Obama's dirty tactics against Jack Ryan in 2004 again knocked a strong opponent out of the race.

So, we will see how it goes in the next 10 weeks. If Obama can can get John McCain kicked out of the race, he wins.

If not, in my humble opinion... Obama doesn't have a chinaman's chance.

[SJackson]

Blair Hull, an Obama opponent in his Senate primary run. Barak was sleeping during legal ethics.

No description of Obama’s relationship with the Chicago press can ignore the benefits of Obama’s ties to local strategist David Axelrod, a former reporter for the Tribune, a frequent source for local reporters, and on good terms with most of the paper’s editors. Fortuitously for Obama, Axelrod began the 2004 Senate primary cycle by engaging in early discussions with Obama’s best-funded rival, Blair Hull. Those discussions included Axelrod asking Hull to confirm or deny rumors of spousal abuse; Axelrod told Mendell that Hull offered a “glacial” and evasive answer. Unsurprisingly, Axelrod lost interest in Hull shortly after that.

As the primary heated up, a consultant for one of Obama’s rivals handed Tribune reporter Mendell a packet of opposition research on Hull — the documents noted that he had been divorced three times, and that his second wife had been granted a court order of protection from him.

That prompted the Chicago media to demand Hull unseal his divorce records, and his campaign ultimately showed them to Mendell. The contents were devastating — allegations of abuse and threats. Mendell makes clear in his book that a non-Obama candidate provided him with the research.

Oddly, within a few months, dogged efforts on the part of the local press would eliminate another Obama rival, this time in the general election. Republican Jack Ryan seemed to be out of central casting — handsome, independently wealthy, sharing the name of a Tom Clancy hero.

But once again, the Tribune and a local television station launched a crusade to unseal the candidate’s divorce records. Ryan, his ex-wife (actress Jeri Ryan, best known for playing a cybernetic bombshell on Star Trek: Voyager), and his supporters argued that his nine-year-old son ought to be spared the messy details of his contentious divorce. A California judge ordered the records unsealed, and the entire political world heard accusations that the candidate urged his unwilling wife to have public sex in clubs in New York and Paris. Ryan denied the allegations, but no candidacy could survive a revelation like that.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YjE4OWQ2NDIyNTkzYjg2YThlNjU1YmNjMWFjNzk3YjY=

[Ancient Drive]

[Mr. Silverback]

Actually, Jeri Ryan came out during the scandal and tried to do some damage control, saying she knew Jack would make an excellent Senator.

Didn’t work.

[BigSkyDream]

Only in America can a guy wake up in alley one day and then end up running for President.

Obama, The Columbia days: "While at Columbia, he lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first night sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and Amsterdam Avenue and washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant. (This, regardless of the fact that there is no alley at 109th and Amsterdam Avenue - perhaps Mr. Obama is confusing New York, which has few alleys, with Chicago, where every block is transected by an alleyway for trash.)"

[Mr. Silverback]

What the Chicago LIBune did was uncalled for, but Judy Barr Topinka literally through Jack Ryan

Not to be the grammar police, but if she literally threw him under the bus he would be dead with tire tracks on him.

[arkady_renko]

There is a good Rebulican State Senator from downstate LaSalle County named Gary Dahl. Other than him, this place is pathetic. The Emil Jones charade with his kid and the Meeks threat to the suburban schools makes you wonder if there is a future for this state. If Daley is calling the shots for Obama, then it makes sense. Daley is a socialist thug, and sees himself as king.

[potlatch]

LOL, slept in an alley, huh?

 

[Lancey Howard]

I only hope a few more of Obama’s homosexual lovers and crack buddies come out of the woodwork.

[TheBattman]

All funny aside - I very well think that it could be the NWO folks putting their “chosen one” in office. They need a brainless idiot puppet to get the remaining power.

One World Government IS coming - maybe sooner than many think.

[Miss Didi]

What goes around comes around.

[devolve]

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LOL!

Excellent potlatch!

[ken21]

that’s hysterical!

it’s what he wants people to think.

i doubt that he’s ever done without.

[potlatch]

Got it in email or somewhere.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

ping

[BigSkyDream]

Seriously, On O’Reilly’s show the other day they did a full show on Obama and the next night they did Sen. McCain and they said that Obama claimed to have slept in an alley so I googled it.

http://www.wikicu.com/Barack_Obama

[SoCalPol]

*Caddel said he’d like to know who’s REALLY doing the picking and mentioned the Daley machine in Chicago*

I think it is way beyond the Daleys and starts with Soros.
The various Marxist in his background, and slick movers, would also explain how Hillary was toppled.
Who would have thought that would have happened.
There is a major machine at work.

[ken21]

another bill clinton psychopath.

reality is whatever is convenient at the moment.

[pepperhead]

Yes Obama had Palmer and another person thrown off the ballot and he ran unopposed.

Dirty Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ned5TQoW4