The Standard. June 27, 2005Kenyan-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.
“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.”
—AP
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Come on people, the caper on Ryan’s divorce papers was engineered by political operatives to ruin Ryan’s chances to win his seat to clear the field for Obama. Insider information by those running the bummer campaign knew exactly were to look, those to bribe and how to play the caper. Bill Ayers, bummer’s mentor knows how to play these games and so do Obama’s handlers, most likely David Axelrod and his contacts inside the Chicago Tribune. My sense is that this was engineered to happen long before anyone took notice of Obama. Question is, who has the dirt on Obama to keep him confined inside the box?
I think you missed the point. The article says “Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barack Obama”.
Denise, you are so right…
This is an excellent find, Wade.
We not only have the AP admitting here that Obama was born in Kenya, but we also know how his competition for the Senate seat was smeared by the press, thus paving the way for this gay crack-head to enter politics.
“Obviously, this is a bad week for our party and our state,” she said.”
Obviously.
Obummer ‘won’, didn’t he?
That ‘bad week’ for your party (ever wonder WHY they call it a PARTY?) and state turned into six REALLY BAD YEARS (so far) for the WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY, B#TCH!!!
love your articulation sir.
Some say this was debunked from Snopes.com. Can anyone else verify the authenticity of this before I start sending it out to my friends?
“Likewise, archived versions of U.S. newspapers that published the same AP wire story (such as the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Seattle Times) do not include lead-ins identifying Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born.””
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ap.asp
Could be controlled opposition propaganda brought out again and since Infowars also had the article posted in 2009, it’s also questionable.
http://www.infowars.com/ap-declared-obama-kenyan-born/