Crazy Kenyan Birthers

Can you spot the future in this 2004 article from the East African Standard? As you know the past is prelude.

I will test you after you read it.

Home National Sports Special Reports Commentaries Intelligence Letters Editorial Big Issue | Financial Standard | Maddo | Pulse | Style | Society   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. 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." —AP News Headlines | Home Page Copyright © 2004 . The Standard Ltd

The Standard LtdI & M Building, Kenyatta Avenue, P.O Box 30080, 00100 GPO, Nairobi-Kenya.  Tel. +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 214467, 229218, 218965. Email: editorial@eastandard.net, online@eastandard.net News room Tel: +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 213108. Advertising: standard.ads@swiftkenya.com Here is the Test: 1.  In what country is the East African Standard published? 2.  Where was the young candidate born? 3.  Whose life and career were destroyed when sealed matrimonial files were reported by the press? 4.  From what city was the Chicago Tribune, the paper that got a judge to open sealed matrimonial files, the ones containing pure allegations of truth.  5.  In what city was there a vicious, personal attack upon a political candidate?   6.  Who benefited from the personal attack championed by the Chicago Tribune? There it is.  The future.