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Barack Hussein Obama has never won a fair election in his life. He wins elections by clearing the field and stuffing ballot boxes. In his 2004 Senate election, he defeated Republican Jack Ryan by having his divorce records unsealed for no good reason other than his own political benefit. The question is, how did he know that those records were so embarrassing? Knowing what we know of the NSA at this point in time, I suspect that they gave him the information.

LOS ANGELES - Dealing a blow to the U.S. Senate candidacy of Republican Jack Ryan, a California judge ruled that several sealed divorce records likely to embarrass the candidate and his ex-wife should be opened to the public. Ruling on a request brought by attorneys for the Tribune and WLS-TV, Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider acknowledged that the resulting publicity from the disclosure would be harmful to the couple's son, a key argument Ryan had raised in seeking to keep the documents from public view. But Schnider said he had weighed the public interest of disclosure against the private interests...

Jack Ryan, the U.S. Senate candidate who dropped out of the race after his embarrassing divorce records became public, plans to launch a weekly newspaper in Homer Township, according to his former aides. Ryan could not be reached Monday for comment, but several people who once worked for him said the investment banker-turned-teacher has been interested in publishing a newspaper for some time. Homer Township is one of the state's fastest-growing areas and an affluent one, dominated by the 3½-year-old village of Homer Glen — making it ripe for a community newspaper, sources said. Ryan won the March Republican primary...

I'm in the midst of preparing a letter to the editor to the Chicago Tribune concerning their recent editorial from June 25 arguing why they decided to go to court to obtain the Ryan's child custody records. I recognize that not everyone here will agree with my thoughts, but I would like to seek your feedback on my letter. I appreciate your comments. Thanks! Here's a first VERY ROUGH draft: Dear Voices of the People: The Chicago Tribune claims in its editorial, “Why the Tribune went to court”, that court files are open unless a compelling interest tips the balance...

CHICAGO - Even though he is not required to under election laws Jack Ryan is promising to return up to 1.5 million in campaign funds he raised for his now defunct Senate campaign. Ryan had planned on running a tough U.S. Senate race from Illinois until a judge decided to unseal "sealed" records from the Ryan custody hearings between Ryan and actress ex-wife Jeri Ryan. The former Mrs. Ryan had made unsubstantiated allegations about Jack taking her to sex clubs on trips to New York and Paris. Politicians from Hillary Clinton to former Illinois Governor George Ryan have made practice...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on Tuesday rejected any suggestion that he release records of his 1988 divorce, calling it old history that had nothing to do with anyone else. "I have no intention of doing that at all," Kerry said during a campaign stop in Phoenix, Arizona, when a reporter asked if he would release the papers from his divorce from his first wife Julia Thorn. In a U.S. senate race in Illinois, Republican candidate Jack Ryan quit his campaign last week after the Chicago Tribune and other media sued to...

Okay, there is a grassroots campaign to draft Mike Ditka to become State GOP Chairman. How about Ditka as a replacement for Jack Ryan on the ballot instead?

Officials in the Jack Ryan campaign have spoken to some members of the congressional delegation, asking for advice about a possible strategy for ending his candidacy in the U.S. Senate race, sources said today. But as recently as this morning, a Ryan spokeswoman was denying rumors the candidate was reassessing whether to continue his campaign. "We are not reassessing. Jack Ryan is in the race to stay. Jack Ryan will be in the race on Nov. 2,'' Kelli Phiel told the Associated Press. The conversations between Ryan's campaign and Republicans in Washington came after the candidate dropped a scheduled trip...

June 23, 2004 — The future of Jack Ryan's campaign for U.S. senate seems more in doubt. ABC 7 has learned about several signs that the republican's campaign events will be scaled back but publicly Ryan is still saying he's staying in the race. Two days ago the release of his divorce records rocked the Ryan campaign. The documents included allegations about visits to sex clubs. "If he asked me today, I would say, Jack, you need to assess whether you can wage a reasonable campaign and my view would be you probably can't," said Gary Skoien, Cook County GOP...

The Boston Globe Archives August 22, 1989 by John Robinson His divorce has been final for only six months, but already Sen. John Kerry has acquired a first-class rake's reputation in the rarefied world of rich, handsome, young bachelor senators. To hear the gossips tell it, the tall, dark-haired former Navy officer with the surgically improved chin has been cutting a swath through the ranks of America's most available young women, inspiring both admiration and envy among the capital's preening young singles. There was the lithesome, British-born researcher for ABC-TV, Emma Gilby, whose long affair with Kerry has left her...

Thank you, everybody, for being here today. I'm very grateful you came out today to listen to me and hear my thoughts. We just spent a weekend in this country thinking about fatherhood. I couldn't be with my son this weekend, but he sent me the most beautiful picture. It's a picture of him in a James Bond costume. He's got an oversized tuxedo on, and he's got a hat that is way too big, and kind of askew. He's got this look on his face, and I think he's trying to be cunning, but he looks a little bit...

Democrats and Liberal Media Attempt To Divide Republican Party Senatorial candidate, Jack Ryan, is under attack by democrats, and some republicans, after the release of his divorce papers on Monday. This is an attempt to divide the republican party and detract us from our message, and we cannot allow this attempt to succeed. It is important that republicans stick to the issues affecting Illinois and the rest of the country. We are facing a healthcare crisis, we are fighting a war on terror, judges are legislating from the bench, God is being driven out of our society, our Second Amendment...

Actress says Illinois pol sought liaisons in kinky clubs JUNE 22--In what may prove a crippling blow to his U.S. Senate campaign, divorce records reveal that Illinois Republican Jack Ryan was accused by his former wife, actress Jeri Ryan, of pressuring her to have sex at swinger's clubs in New York, Paris, and New Orleans while other patrons watched. The bombshell allegation is contained amidst nearly 400 pages of records ordered released yesterday by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who ruled on media requests to unseal documents from the Ryan case. The salacious charge leveled at the politician was...