*Kenyan-Born Obama* set for US Senate Run UPDATE: ERASED FROM INTERNET!!!!!

[_CREATIONIST_]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

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.

Source: Associated Press

[T0RN]

 
great find. I'm suprised I havn't seen this before.

[America2]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

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.

Source: Associated Press

Great find, but SCARY...

[luckee1]

Jesus man!  Don't just post the link for this post the story!  The way the f**king internet gets scrubbed, we should all know better than to post only a link!


  Sunday, June 27, 2004

    
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

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.
      
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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."

 

[kushfiend]

wow that is an amayzing find!

if we can get MSM cognizant of this we could cause some serious probelmz with their birther = terrorist logic

[ChristSavage]

What now Obama?  You illegal candidate for the President you...

This should get put on the front page of Infowars and PP.com ASAP, also should get sent to Phil Berg ASAP since he is the "Alpha Birther".

obamacrimes.com is his website, and shouldget insta posted there, and everywhere...

[Monkeypox]

 

Is there a way to confirm that that is the actual article, and that it is actually from 2004?

If it is...HOLY SHIT!

[JesusItrustinYou]

bump

[hardrain77]

Hopefully, Orly Taitz won't find this. Talk about a well poisoner.

[_CREATIONIST_]

What now Obama?  You illegal candidate for the President you...

This should get put on the front page of Infowars and PP.com ASAP, also should get sent to Phil Berg ASAP since he is the "Alpha Birther".

obamacrimes.com is his website, and shouldget insta posted there, and everywhere...

I just sent this article to writers@infowars.com and aaron@infowars.com

[nofakenews]

Good find!!! but it wont really prove anything cause obama is a CIA asset and they wouldn't let the golden child go down. 

[luckee1]

monkeypox go here to verify hon.  http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

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[Waipio]

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  Sunday, June 27, 2004

    
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

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.
      
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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."

 

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[centexan]

First I've seen of that.  Do you folks save the pages?  You can go to File > Save As and save the page.  Better that copy and paste.

You know, of course, that the Obama people could say the sources were mis-informed.  But this looks good.

I just emailed the link to Phil Berg, the lawyer who's got cases pending on the citizenship issue.

[psy0ps]

bumpage

this needs stickied

[nofakenews]

[chrisfromchi]

So does that mean the AP has the story archived someplace cause it was sourced or is just on this east African newspapers website?

[luckee1]

Thank you Mod for the stickie!!

[centexan]

If it's AP, wouldn't it be archived?  Maybe a search of AP for around that date?

[chrisfromchi]

If it's AP, wouldn't it be archived?  Maybe a search of AP for around that date?

i been trying that nothing so far.
 your welcome to help

http://www.ap.org/

[pac522]

Here is the full archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://eastandard.net

And the original front page, you'll find the Kenya Born Obama headline on the right side half way down under the header,News Headlines:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627044226/http://eastandard.net/

    

   

[trailhound]

They'll just say it was a misprint.

[centexan]

I looked at AP (lots of Obama/Kenya articles, but this one's not there).  Googled the entire headline and all references lead back to the archive.org mention.  I'd bet AP scrubbed it.  Is archive.org legit?  Any trust issue with that organization?

Does anyone reading this live in Kenya?  Could you go to the paper and get a hard copy (print copy, if they print...for June 27, 2004?).  Scan it for this forum and then mail it to Alex Jones' people?

[_CREATIONIST_]

i been trying that nothing so far.
 your welcome to help

http://www.ap.org/

I couldnt find anything on AP's archive but I found this from the Honolulu Advertiser

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.html

Illinois Army National Guard Maj. L. Tammy Duckworth sat in a wheelchair at the paper-strewn kitchen table in her suburban Chicago home doing what she seems to do better than most mortals: focusing totally on the task at hand.

She worked the phones for hours Wednesday as part of her effort to get herself elected to Congress — reaching out to dozens of mayors, union officials and everyday voters.

Somehow, she's able to stay focused and find humor simultaneously. She has a knack for instantly putting people at ease with what some call her disability — the fact that she lost both her legs in Iraq 418 days before.

Pausing between calls, Duckworth noted that her high-tech artificial legs were in the closet "charging up." What she called her "left stump" was propped up on the table.

"That's my way of kicking back," she said with an infectious laugh. "I know, the politically correct term is residual limb. But that's just way too many syllables, and I figure it's mine. I can call it what I want."

Duckworth's Iraq experience already is the stuff of American military lore.

On Nov. 12, 2004, her entire focus was on not losing consciousness while trying to safely land a Black Hawk helicopter. It had been blasted by a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded where Duckworth was seated. The maneuver was an impossible feat with two missing legs, a shattered right arm, and a multitude of other serious injuries.

Another pilot landed the helicopter. But Duckworth, not realizing how seriously she'd been hurt, kept her attention on the mission, passing out only when the Black Hawk was on the ground. Initially presumed dead, Duckworth remained unconscious for the next 10 days.

Her focus for the better part of 2005 included staying alive, undergoing intense therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and painstakingly learning to walk again on artificial legs.

She is on record as saying she's determined to fly helicopters again.

Duckworth knows that political pundits are focused on her. As a Democratic candidate in a historically Republican district trying to win the House seat being vacated by retiring Republican icon Henry Hyde, her 6th District race is becoming a Democratic Party priority and a talking point among political heavyweights.

"Very rarely have I met a more impressive person than Tammy Duckworth," said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in an article the day before she announced her candidacy Dec. 18. "She just has the poise and exudes the type of character that I think would make her an astounding public servant."

Duckworth is happy to point out that she and Hawai'i-raised Punahou graduate Obama have "a kama'aina connection."

Both were born outside the country — Obama in Indonesia, Duckworth in Thailand — and graduated from high school in Honolulu — Punahou and McKinley, respectively.

"The big thing for me is that I'm a McKinley High grad," said Duckworth. "That gives you a lot of street creds. I wasn't a rich kid."

Born in Bangkok on March 12, 1968, when her father was there working with a United Nations refugee program, Duckworth spent much of her childhood in Southeast Asian countries. Along with her parents, Franklin and Lamia Duckworth, and her younger brother, Tommy Duckworth, she arrived in Hawai'i at age 16. An honors student, she skipped ninth grade and graduated in 1985.

Richard Sakamoto, Duckworth's high school principal, remembers her as the sort of student any educator would hope to find in the classroom — multitalented, determined and bound for success.

"She was one of the best students, because of her determination," said Sakamoto, who had breakfast with Duckworth when she returned to Hawai'i in September to attend a wedding and to speak at a women's leadership conference.

"She was something else, very intelligent, very goal-oriented. She was an athlete. She participated in basketball, volleyball and track."

And according to Duckworth, she was and still is a girly girl. A photo of her looking stylish and feminine in a short satin dress appears in the 1985 McKinley High yearbook, for which Duckworth wrote the epilogue.

Another yearbook picture of her throwing a discus offers a different perspective. The accompanying caption reads: "Tammy Duckworth proves that females are more than equal to the task."

Duckworth, who holds a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Hawai'i in 1989.

UH political science professor Ira Rohter said she was a noticeable presence even then.

"Here was somebody who stood out and was asking questions," said Rohter, who recalls having Duckworth in one of his courses.

"She was inquisitive. There was a critical analysis. She was one of those people who read the material and then would talk and argue with you about it."

Rohter said he's not surprised now to find Duckworth on the national stage.

"I think she has a sophisticated understanding of what's going on," he said. "I'm intrigued with what it is that she wants to accomplish."

On the local level in Illinois, Duckworth wants to accomplish the sorts of things that matter to the people in the 6th District — better education, higher-paying jobs for young graduates, and affordable healthcare.

And she isn't shy about speaking her mind on controversial subjects. Duckworth talks about what she sees as a lack of leadership in Washington, D.C., record federal debt and bad fiscal policies that benefit the rich.

"Invading Iraq was a mistake," she says on her Tammy Duckworth for Congress Web site. "We should have focused our military resources instead on pursuing the terrorists who attacked our country and on capturing Osama Bin Laden."

Once she was discharged from active duty in late December, Duckworth was no longer restricted from making political statements. She remains in the Illinois National Guard on a Continuation On Active Reserve status — one of two severely injured soldiers given that special status, she said.

Out of uniform, she'll say what's on her mind, taking her cues largely from those who know firsthand what she's been through.

"I have a lot of respect for that World War II generation who came back from the war and changed this country," said Duckworth, whose husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, is a captain in the Army National Guard.

"Sen. Daniel Inouye was in that generation. Bob Dole and John F. Kennedy were in that generation."

Duckworth's dad, a Marine who received a Purple Heart for wounds received in Okinawa and the driving influence of her life, was of that generation. He died of heart failure on Jan. 28, 2005.

His daughter has nothing but praise for her fellow soldiers in the Middle East who she says risk their lives daily, watch their buddies get killed, and then keep going the next day.

"What's happened is they've done their duty, but the politicians have failed them," she said.

Too many legislators don't have a personal stake in the decision process — their sons aren't serving, Duckworth said. And that's why she remains in the military.

"Because if I get into Congress, the next time they decide whether or not to send troops into battle, I want to be there to make that decision.

"At least my butt will be on the line. I'm not just going to send somebody else. I'm going to be sending myself."

As for those who might criticize her views as somehow unpatriotic, Duckworth said bring it on.

"I've already had an RPG blow up in my lap," she said. "After that, take your best shot. I'm going to get up and fight for what I think is right."

[WebDeveloperForTruth]

I wonder why they spelled his name with two r's?  That just seems a little odd.  

[centexan]

They may say it was a misprint, but at least it provides a good printout.

Print out the news page, and then when you're talking to someone who says your a birther kook, show them the 2004 paper from Nairobi that SAYS Obama's a Kenyan.  

Even if the Obama crowd says this is a misprint, the paper could sway LOTS of people.

[pac522]

Another archived website where you can see the link to the story, the link is broke, about half way down the page.

http://archive.wn.com/2004/06/28/1400/kenya

[Protean]

Very interesting find--hope this is on the level and this issue gets some REAL traction with the heads down, grass chewing--public.

"Apparently" there also exists a video of Obama debating his rival during his senatorial run, who says to Obama he wasn't born in the U.S., to which Obama replies, it doesn't matter if he wasn't born in the U.S., because he's not running for president. (at least then he wasn't)

[nofakenews]

Found the new york times version.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/us/candidate-under-pressure-quits-senate-race-in-illinois.html

[ChristSavage]

Found the new york times version.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/us/candidate-under-pressure-quits-senate-race-in-illinois.html

Not a surprise they don't mention Kenyan Born anywhere in that article...

[sociostudent]

The NYT version doesn't mention Kenya, though--I want to see the actual paper article from the AP that says "Kenyan-born".

[pac522]

I wonder why they spelled his name with two r's?  That just seems a little odd.  

Because it was misspelled may be the reason the article didn't disappear or was altered from the archive.

[voodo0]

unreal. great find.

[chrisfromchi]

The NYT version doesn't mention Kenya, though--I want to see the actual paper article from the AP that says "Kenyan-born".

There has to be a sourced one that the NYT and subsequently the African Newspaper wrote their story off from. Or the African paper took liberties or its true.

[pac522]

There has to be a sourced one that the NYT and subsequently the African Newspaper wrote their story off from. Or the African paper took liberties or its true.

A lot of desk writers will sit there and take AP wires, do a little research and write their own version of the AP wire keeping the wire in tact just adding some of their own facts.

[sociostudent]

There has to be a sourced one that the NYT and subsequently the African Newspaper wrote their story off from. Or the African paper took liberties or its true.

There's GOTTA be a way to find out--it just seems WAAAY too easy, too good to be true. I do believe he was born in Kenya--It's just the "proving it" thing that's difficult. they could come out and say it's fake, or that they were "mistaken" or some bs, but hopefully Taitz and her attorney can get the vault birth certificate and prove it once and for all. This whole issue is just ridiculously secretive. The American people are tired of being told they're racist or insane for believing this.

[chrisfromchi]

A lot of desk writers will sit there and take AP wires, do a little research and write their own version of the AP wire keeping the wire in tact just adding some of their own facts.

thats why we need original wire and even then it can be wrong.

[nofakenews]

Here is also a few others.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/2004-06-25-ryan_x.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/us_senate/articles/2004/06/26/candidate_drops_out_of_ill_senate_race/

[deconstructmyhouse]

Good find!!! but it wont really prove anything cause obama is a CIA asset and they wouldn't let the golden child go down. 

"they" are not the boss of everything!

[chrisfromchi]

it just seems WAAAY too easy, too good to be true.

ya thats what i'm thinking. I just saw some clip of that Orly and Joy Behar and it was ridiculous and ironic since they attacked Lou dobbs for even breathing the story.