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Is Vera Baker Surfacing as a Potential Story in the Presidential Race?

Well, this is curious. Sharon Churcher, a reporter with the Daily Mail, published this piece last night without naming a name other than Barack Obama:

Barack Obama is the target of a shadowy smear campaign designed to derail his bid for the US Presidency by falsely claiming he had a close friendship with an attractive African-American female employee.

The whispers focus on a young woman who in 2004 was hired to work on his team for his bid to become a senator.

The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a personal friendship with her.

The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks before the convention at which Obama finally beat his opponent for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton. . . .

According to our investigation into the rumours, they originated with political veterans who claim to be loyal Democrats.

They have tried to persuade reporters that they have the woman’s interests at heart.

One of the sources who has been circulating the rumours admitted never meeting the woman but claimed he has spoken to ‘a group of African American’ women who are her friends and believe she was mistreated.

Denial: The woman, whose identity we have protected, rejected the claims

‘They said she was removed from her position and the political scene because Michelle got wind of the fact that she had a close friendship with her husband,’ the source said. ‘She disappeared, then she reappeared in the Caribbean.’

The Mail on Sunday located the woman in the Caribbean, where she now works. She denied that Mrs Obama had raised any objections to her job on the 2004 campaign.

‘No,’ she said. ‘Nothing happened. I just left … at the end of the campaign.’

Asked about the claim that Mrs Obama accused her of having a close friendship with the Senator, she said: ‘I have no comment on anything.

‘I switched careers. That’s it. I’m a Democrat and I support Senator Obama … I don’t have anything to say.’

She added that she emigrated to the Caribbean from the US after falling in love with the man with whom she now lives.

Senator Obama’s team did not respond to our request for comment.

But one day after we contacted Obama’s team, a London law firm informed The Mail on Sunday that it had been retained by the woman to help her to counter the whispering campaign, which they said was ‘absolutely false’.

After you read Churcher’s article take a look at today’s piece by Hill Buzz, which carries the nifty title, Who is Vera Baker and Why is She in Martinique? and seems to have similar story line sans the allegations of any romantic entanglements.

According to Hill Buzz:

FEC Senate campaign records show she was paid a pretty penny as “Finance Director”.

However, people familiar with Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign say Claire Serdiuk was Obama’s Finance Director. Looking through everything we can see online for that 2004 campaign, Claire Serdiuk is consistently listed as the Finance Director - because that’s what she was.

There’s no mention of Vera Baker…but Vera Baker was paid as the “Finance Director” too.

And then, suddenly, Vera Baker was relocated to New York.

Looks like Kevin at Hill Buzz is stirring the waters in a clever way, but at least has FEC records to bolster the assertion that Baker served in a finance role of some sort with Barack’s campaign for the Senate. What is curious about the Churcher piece, which appears to be sympathetic to Obama by portraying him as the victim of an impending smear, is the note that a London law firm contacted the mail. They were threatened with a libel suit, so why the hell did they write the piece? If it is not news then why put it out and draw attention to an unnamed woman that is simply going to fuel the search for the woman in question?

It is true that Vera Baker had a business in Washington raising campaign funds. She was partners with another African American woman, Muthoni Wambu, Baker Wambu & Associates, a political fund-raising firm. Guess who Wambu works for now? Joe Biden. The Politico had a story about Baker Wambu’s business challenges in May 2007:

That’s what happened when Muthoni Wambu and Vera Baker, both African-American women, set up their own fundraising shop, Baker Wambu & Associates, in 2000.

Though it was never its owners’ intention, Baker Wambu soon found itself a top fundraising firm for the Congressional Black Caucus. Their only non-black clients were Reps. Mike Honda (D-Hawaii) and Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-N.Y.). Not a single white male politician linked up with the firm in its five years.

“We didn’t aim to be (a strictly CBC firm) at all. But we started to look and say, ‘Huh, that’s a good committee, that’s a big deal.’ … A lot of CBC members were really open to having a firm like ours raise money for them,” said Wambu, now deputy political director for Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s Democratic presidential campaign. “In many ways, they were overlooked as resources. Businesses hadn’t pitched to them.”

Here’s another little tidbit on Muthoni Wambu:

African American professionals can build prosperous careers in the capital city, especially those hoping to play a role in national politics. “There’s a mentality here that there’s enough for everyone; you’re not competing for what feels like a limited number of opportunities,” says 29-year-old Muthoni Wambu.

Like most Washingtonians, Wambu is a transplant. She left New York City’s Upper West Side to study journalism at Howard University and then networked her way into a political fundraising job with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. This was a new aspect of politics for Wambu, who soon discovered that it “brought together my strengths in a way that I’d never anticipated.”

In 2000, Wambu and Vera Baker, another Howard alum, started Baker-Wambu & Associates. The firm has raised over $3 million for the campaigns of members of Congress and other politicians. “Washington is the best place for our firm to blossom and grow, and one of the only cities where two 24-year-old African American women [could have built a successful business] with pennies and a dream,” she says.

Wambu moved to her neighborhood a few years back, when it was on the cusp of change, and has watched its value multiply over a relatively short period of time. She currently rents an apartment, but in the next year she plans to buy a house and is looking to spend around $400,000. During her 12 years in Washington, D.C., Wambu says that she also has seen the cost of living escalate.

Wambu’s job provides many opportunities to socialize– often with the nation’s most influential business and political leaders. “It is unique to find the number of African Americans that you see at these power restaurants, and [it's] also extremely encouraging,” she says.

It will be interesting to see if Hill Buzz gets a nasty gram from Baker’s London lawyers. And, with rumors swirling that Republican investigators are on the scent, it is unlikely that this is the end of this story.

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Comment by HARP | 2008-10-12 19:52:28

Michelle said… if you can`t keep your own house in order…how can you keep the white house in order.

KARMA…BABY

Comment by Docelder | 2008-10-12 20:12:56

I certainly hope nobody stops “being proud” of their country over any of this. ;)

Comment by Kal | 2008-10-12 21:44:37

OT — Matthew Weaver — I left a comment for you re BO’s so-called tax cuts on the Hannity open thread.

 
 

Comment by SJ | 2008-10-12 20:51:21

I was thinking the same thing, what goes around comes around real fast, I wonder how Michelle is going to handle the WH now, she is no longer fit to be first lady lol

Comment by NoTrollZone | 2008-10-12 21:57:52

It’s amazing that first article quoted can talk about a purported affair and never use the word
“affair.” Just “close relationship” over and over again.

 
 

Comment by Susan | 2008-10-12 20:56:59

HARP - you are so right! Normally, even if I dislike a politician, I don’t like to see the wife embarrassed, but hey, what goes around comes around, and when she said that about Hillary, I was hoping she would be publicly humiliated with Obama’s infidelity one day. I know it’s not very nice to gloat, but I can’t help it. And I’m sure Hillary will (quietly) enjoy it too.

Comment by Kal | 2008-10-12 22:10:48

I guess now she will have to be vetted for how well she runs her own house, before she can get her hands on the keys to the white house.

 

Comment by trixta | 2008-10-13 00:55:33

Two words—Larry Sinclair.

Comment by Tuppence 411 | 2008-10-13 07:51:45

LMBO- That’s what I thought. The whispers this time are about a woman, the Obama camp must consider that progress. LMBO

Comment by sarainitaly | 2008-10-13 15:21:34

 
 
 
 

Comment by TeakWoodKite | 2008-10-12 21:16:22

Aby one remember the photo published in the Sun-Times early in the primaries that had BO at a table with the camera focused on MO as they rode along in a train? BO was texting on his blackberry and MO had these far away eyes…

That picture makes more sense to me now.

She looked as if she was contemplating the future with the heart break of today.
Not long after that I read a MIB enquirer article about MO keeping BO on a tighter leash.

nasty gram Howler from Baker’s London lawyers.

:)

 

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-10-12 21:44:40

harp — I guess Michelle can’t keep her own house in order. Larry Sinclair and Vera Baker — Obama has a very interesting house to keep in order.

Comment by Jean | 2008-10-12 22:39:45

Powerful men think they can get away with anything. They are surrounded by sycophants and crowds who tell them that they are beyond the rules of ordinary people. Especially someone as arrogant as Barack. There are so many examples. Men who believe the hype almost always treat sex as a reward for their greatness. That’s why I am sure he has had affairs, and probably Larry Sinclair’s claims are true, too. Pleasure is a justified reward for their greatness.
How many examples of this can you think of?

Comment by Morgan | 2008-10-13 00:16:26

Just a heads up– for a lot of us, acceptance by women and yes, sex, is what our entire life and pursuits is all about, at its core. It’s just how we’re wired (yes, you can be more, but this is huge for us). I could live in a bus on $50 a week, were it just me reproducing asexually.

Not that I disbelieve this necessarily, but it’s all of us, not just the powerful that do it.

And for the record, the reason it matters in a candidate is SECURITY. How easy is it to blackmail or influence a guy that tomcats around and whose political life depends on no one knowing?

Comment by geeez | 2008-10-13 01:39:08

its the people that have low self esteem.

Comment by geeez | 2008-10-13 01:40:14

mabe you should get some therapy

 
 
 

Comment by Alan | 2008-10-13 17:28:08

Interesting psychological analysis. Do you have a Ph.D. in Psychology, or what makes you such an expert in male psychology, and more specifically, in Senator Obama’s psychology?

It is unbelievable to me that someone can spout nonsense like this and them assert that spurious claims about someone are true based on it.

 
 
 

Comment by Liberty Belle not for Obama | 2008-10-12 22:51:58

Or, the “Whitey” house.

 

Comment by Alan | 2008-10-13 17:16:21

When will we hear about John McCain’s adultery with a woman named Cindy? Yes, he was dating her while still married to his first wife, Carol. Carol was the wife who waited for John while he was in that prison all those years.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp

Personally, I don’t know why a person’s sex life is a major issue in politics but for some reasons Republicans like to poke at the mote in their neighbor’s eye. When false accusations of being a terrorist and a traitor and a rumor campaign designed to make Obama appear to be a Muslim didn’t work, is it surprising that now Republican operatives will make up some sex story?

Comment by USA4EVER | 2008-10-14 22:08:44

Lesson for MO: Do not throw stones when you live in a glass house. Elizabeth Edwards has just learned her lesson.

 
 

Comment by Dave | 2008-10-14 09:49:34

Who is Vera Baker and why did she go to Martinique. Is she the link to the Obama campaign and the fictitious donors found in the Obama finance records? Did she ever work with Tony Rezko helping Obama raise fund when he ran for his state offices. Did she and Rezko raise or move funds for his US Senate Run!

These are all viable questions that need to be answered. Rezko starts singing to Fitzgerald and Sunday the Cape Caribbean web site vanishes in to sunset as we started chatting about her on Free Republic with a lead from HillBuzz.

There are questions to be asked and answered. Why did here web site disappear yesterday when the posters of Free republic outted her web site and the possibility of her being tied to a credit card money factory for Obama in Martinique.

Was she Barack’s love interest or just a Fundraiser bundler of soft money? She has ties and history raising funds for Barack and for the Congressional Black Caucus.

Why did the DNC allow the campaign to move from DNC HQ in DC to Chicago where David Axlerod and his minions could hide and control the dirty games that possibly have taken place with illegal contributions for across the world like the $35,000 from the Edwan Brothers in Ga. No that’s not Georgia but Gaza Strip in the Middle East. But we all know that Barack is a friend of Israel and that the Brother’s got carried away in the moment of donating $35,000 to Obama.

I hope that somebody has the sense to check bank accounts, credit card records and transaction prior to the election as this really reeks of money laundering. The FEC and other Government agencies need to make this a top issue before the election.

Did some of this Laundered money go to Acorn. Can an audit of Acorns sources of funds be tracked to domestic and foreign bank accounts? We already know that Obama’s Campaign gave acorn more then 800,000 for voter registration. Wanna bet its bigger dollars from offshore accounts?

So yes this is a smoking gun! Does it involve Rezko ,Axlerod and Obama I bet it does. Does the Main Street Media pick it up! Probably not as we are just bloggers and speculators of what occurred and don’t have any power to do much about it unless we spread the word to our friends and fellow bloggers on the net. Please make your voices heard on the net.

Maybe the recent news of Rezko visiting US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s office, along with his lawyers is a good sign that something big might be happening and that Rezko is singing the tune.

(In 2005, the Obamas paid $1.65 million for their home near the University of Chicago. The sellers wanted a parcel they owned next door to sell on the same day, and Rezko’s wife, Rita, was the buyer. At the request of the Obamas, Mrs. Rezko later sold them a three-metre strip of land to enlarge their lot. They paid $104,500.
The deal took place while Rezko was under investigation and when details of the cozy relationship surfaced, Obama said it was a “bonehead” error to have asked for the additional land because it looked like he was getting a favor.

“I regret it,” Obama said at the time. “I’m going to make sure that from this point on I don’t even come close to the line.” )

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Comment by frankgoior | 2008-11-05 15:53:01

Pathetic. You pathetic people believe any crap you read on backwater blogs. Take off your tinfoil hat. He is your president, deal.

 
 

Comment by scorbs | 2008-10-12 19:57:13

I don’t see this as “derailing” Obama’s campaign. His campaign probably put this out to discredit his detractors, making them look desperate. A similar rumor about John Kerry having an affair was spread during his campaign and they were groundless. The other radical associations with people like Ayers have far more merit and this nonstory may be getting put out their as a distraction from those.

Comment by Medusa | 2008-10-12 20:04:33

Thanks for posting this.
This “nonstory” has been around for sometime but no one in the media has followed up. Sound familiar? The buzz on John Edwards was a “nonstory” too. And then someone grew some metaphorical balls and the truth was revealed.

I’m happy that Hillbuzz is chumming the waters around Martinique.

 

Comment by Touchet | 2008-10-12 20:09:24

Yep just like the affair by Edwards right…just rumor.

 

Comment by WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName | 2008-10-12 21:10:39

Maybe this was put out there to counter any rumours that nobama is gay/bisexual?

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-10-12 21:32:37

I agree.

Oblowme isn’t interested in the fairer sex.

Oblowme described his male Pakistani roomie as “well-built”.

Hello! There’s your sign.

 

Comment by mimi | 2008-10-13 12:14:19

Exactly!

There’s obviously a story on the horizon that we’ve yet to get wind of.

This is a head fake.

He’s not interested in women.

Also, in good conscience I can’t get into this because if I do, then I’d have to feel the same way about Clinton and I don’t.

I don’t believe this story for one minute. 0bama plays for the other team.

 
 
 

Comment by James | 2008-10-12 20:02:24

It’s probably a diversion done by the Obama campaign. Focus on the real connections with Ayers and Odinga.

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-10-12 21:12:33

I agree…focus on the all the other shit which this dude is up to his ears in!

Comment by Dan R | 2008-10-14 09:57:46

Steve, why don’t you eat s..t and die bitch! If you have nothing positive to say, just shut your filthy mouth.

 
 
 

Comment by Hmm | 2008-10-12 20:02:44

The press wont cover it. The person who breaks this story will be rich and famous in short order. But these pansies in the modern day media don’t have what it takes to write this story.

 

Comment by beverly leslie | 2008-10-12 20:02:54

I don’t care if he was having an affair, but I do care about his missing birth certificate, his connections with ayers and all the other sordid characters.

Comment by CC Cane | 2008-10-12 20:37:32

 

Comment by jackie | 2008-10-12 21:27:56

Amen.

But perhaps we can add her to the list of the smarmy

 

Comment by Alan | 2008-10-13 17:18:35

The birth certificate is another false internet rumor promoted by Republican operatives. Read the truth on that myth here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Comment by Dave | 2008-10-14 10:52:08

Maybe the birth certificate is real maybe its not. Why does Obama and the DNC keep fighting the lawsuit?

My guess is there is something to the lawsuit.

you can view the details on Phil Berg’s Site
http://www.obamacrimes.com
Or check out some of the pleadings on his site.
http://obamacrimes.com/attachments/029_ObamaCrimes.com%20Press%20Release%2010%2006%2008%20-%20Reaction%20to%20Obama%20Filing%20Motion%20for%20Protective%20Order.pdf

It is believed Obama is an “illegal alien”
For Immediate Release: - 10/06/08

(Contact info and pdf of press release below)

Country is Headed to a Constitutional Crisis

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/06/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the Motion to Dismiss (which was) filed on 09/24/08.

While legal, Berg stated he is “outraged as this is another attempt to hide the truth from the public; it is obvious that documents do not exist to prove that Obama is qualified to be President.” The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.

Their joint motion indicates a concerted effort to avoid the truth by attempting to delay the judicial process, although legal, by not resolving the issue presented: that is, whether Barack Obama meets the qualifications to be President.

It is obvious that Obama was born in Kenya and does not meet the “qualifications” to be President of the United States pursuant to our United States Constitution. Obama cannot produce a certified copy of his “Vault” [original long version] Birth Certificate from Hawaii because it does not exist.

Is it true or not. The Media is hiding it from the Public. What happened to Freedom of the Press in America.

 
 
 

Comment by lisa in va | 2008-10-12 20:04:58

Even if its true, it won’t go anywhere. Now, if instead of Vera Baker, it was Vernon Baker, then it might have legs.

What was the name of that Louisanna politician who said that he was so popular, he would only be voted out of office if “I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy”?

Comment by Liz B | 2008-10-12 23:15:12

In Obama’s case that might have to be the reverse-
a dead boy, and a live girl…afterall, what’s up with the unsolved murder of the TUCC gay Choir Director? Michelle doesn’t do much to dissuade one from assuming BO might be gay, thus the need to have a live girl…

 

Comment by wry | 2008-10-12 23:51:57

wasn’t it Huey Long?

 

Comment by angie | 2008-10-12 23:58:07

It was Edwin Edwards — it was in the gov. race against David Duke — he said the only way he was going to lose this election was if he “got caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.”

 

Comment by Dave | 2008-10-14 10:54:35

Or if it was tied to a Republican. The Press is in the tank for the Messiah Barack Hussein Obama.

 
 

Comment by Hmm | 2008-10-12 20:05:11

It was news for Bill Clinton-why shouldn’t it be news for Obama.

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-10-12 20:57:40

Because if the truth is ever revealed–the MSM will have us believe there will be riots, blood in the streets because Soetoro’s thug supporters will go bonkers. Yeah, right!

 

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-10-12 21:47:21

hmm — It makes me feel slightly better about Obama. I can’t see anyone being monogomistic with Michelle. YECH

 
 

Comment by Gianni | 2008-10-12 20:06:21

Well, the Larry Sinclair allegations are well-known and likely are true. So this revelation is certainly consistent with his behavior according to Sinclair.

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-10-12 20:54:04

I’m just wondering how many other LS(s) are out there-scared, murder of Donald Young, or getting some hush funds…remember Edwards, million dollar homes, campaign funds in the woman’s pockets…funds to his friend who took the fall….what is in store for this created myth-Soetoro-Obama…these stories are not going to go away! What is in store for our country?

 

Comment by Kal | 2008-10-12 21:47:39

Ha! It’s probably a cover for the Sinclair end of things, so to speak.

 
 

Comment by Monet | 2008-10-12 20:12:46

The media claims it’s women who are behind the recent rise in Senator Obama’s poll status. Women who aren’t too interested in Ayers, Mansour, Wright, Rezko, etc… But women do have a tendency to turn away from candidates who supplemented their marriages with young 20 or 30 somethings.

The mere allegation that Ms. Baker had a relationship with Senator Obama that raised the eyebrows of Mrs. Obama could be a problem for the Senator. It doesn’t have to be proven there was an affair, just a friendship that endangered the marriage to have some women rethinking their support for Senator Obama.

Comment by Patience | 2008-10-12 20:46:04

Good point — I hadn’t thought of it that way.

When I first heard about Vera Baker I figured it was a red herring since Obama is such a homophobe.

 

Comment by beverly leslie | 2008-10-12 21:04:28

Well, as a woman if the only thing I had to worry about Soetorobama was an affair, it wouldn’t stop me from voting for him. I’d vote for Bill Clinton again. But Soetorobama has many other issue’s that put the fear of god in me. That includes his missing birth certificate, odinga, ayers, wright, meeks pflegar etc.

 

Comment by wry | 2008-10-12 21:18:56

Women ate up that story(lie)Barky told of his Mother dying of ovarian cancer and fighting with the insurance companies. Of course he doesn’t mention why he couldn’t advocate for her WITH A LAW DEGREE FROM HARVARD, or why he didn’t bother to be with her when she died.

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-10-12 21:40:15

Excellent points wry!!

 
 
 

Comment by ford | 2008-10-12 20:14:38

The move away of Baker now means something…and the other partner working with Biden now guarantees her silence…we need pictures…

It looks like there are other things popping as well…what the gossip with Ben Smith???

Larry, you’re great thanks for all the digging.

NO QUARTER IS THE BEST!

Comment by suzanne | 2008-10-12 21:05:57

No quarter is the BEST at putting out lies and slime - no doubt about it. Again, I ask, where are the whitey tapes???

Comment by AnninCA | 2008-10-12 21:11:11

Nobody with any real sense of conscience would even publish those tapes.

Totally inappropriate.

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-10-12 21:50:33

ANNIN — if its fair for Obama to calls us all racists and to act like they are better than the rest of us then its fair to show he cheats on Michelle.

 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-10-12 21:11:22

Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.

 

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-10-12 21:51:49

Just ask for the “Hate Whitey Tape” at any of the following places:

Rev. Hate Whitey’s Church - the TUCC,

The gigantic failure - The Annenberg Challenge,

Neighborhood anti-American terrorist friends of Oblowme’s - Ayers and Dohrn’s living room where Oblowme launched his Senate campaign,

Hamas,

Louis Farrakhan’s mansion down the street from Oblowme and

The Oblowme’s ill-gotten mansion basement

where MEchelle is chained, but allowed to watch it on a continuous loop.

Comment by wry | 2008-10-12 23:55:12

MEchelle is chained in their whine cellar.

Comment by JustMe | 2008-10-13 00:12:05

who needs michelles whitey tape her husband does enough for them both….

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Dark Knight | 2008-10-12 20:15:03

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN_ECONOMY?SITE=NVREN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

“Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to ‘whip’ Democratic rival Barack Obama’s ‘you-know-what’ when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.”

“We’re a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we’re right in this game,” McCain said to cheers. “The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We’ll give that to America.”

Still, McCain promised to run a “respectful” campaign in the weeks to come.

“I respect Senator Obama, we will conduct a respectful race and be sure everyone else does too. But there are stark difference between us,” McCain said.

Comment by John Smith | 2008-10-12 21:09:14

I hope that he is going to actually do it.

 

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-10-12 21:52:41

dark knight — the ad by McCain this morning was anything but respectful. Best ad so far.

 
 

Comment by Fred | 2008-10-12 20:15:56

Vera Baker is the name of a character played by Whoopie Goldberg in a really bad 2002 film called Rat Race.

You’ve been pwn’d

Comment by AnninCA | 2008-10-12 20:36:52

But willingly. :)

 

Comment by Shainzona | 2008-10-12 21:11:24

Except there really is a Vera Baker who was involved in his 2004 campaign and paid big bucks - from campaign funds - for a non-existent job while another women did the real job.

Definitely John Edwards all over again….and you know how well that turned out.

No wonder they’ve been keeping MO under wraps this past month. If her TMJ jaw sticks out any further, they can land a jet on its deck.

 

Comment by Zee | 2008-10-12 22:58:55

As if! Rat Race is a delightfully hilarious film!

 
 

Comment by McTampaBayacuda | 2008-10-12 20:25:41

it’s a non issue for me anyway, unless they have a love child :)

 

Comment by Linda | 2008-10-12 20:31:18

Not much time left. Sure, if someone can get the dirt out in about 10 days. Otherwise it will be to late. And I’m afraid this guy will end up in the White House.

 

Comment by Deep Truths | 2008-10-12 20:31:25

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Comment by Ann Arbor for Palin | 2008-10-12 20:31:53

I am not interested in whether he is dishonest to his wife or not.

What concerns me is how much he has been dishonest to the voters. I would not even hire an employee whom I can not trust. How can we sleep peacefully when our president lies all the time about important issues

 

Comment by jen | 2008-10-12 20:34:04

Oh pshaw. This will just be debunked by factcheck.org so you’ve wasted a whole bunch of time trying to pin anything on the precious!

Oh, and pay no attention to this little detail:

… The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels.

The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation. …

http://www.factcheck.org/about/

Bwahahahaha!!!

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-10-12 21:59:41

jen — that would be the Annenberg Foundation hmmm. Didn’t Obama and Ayers get 110 Million from the Annenberg Challenge which came from the Annenberg Foundation and was to be used for educational purposes. Now the money has disappeared. None of it went for educational programs after all. No thanks I will have to miss Factcheck.org.

 
 

Comment by don tufts | 2008-10-12 20:35:34

this one way street where we get called racist has to freekin stop and the only way i know of is to expose michelle and the whitey tape.so i said this earlier and i mean this and possibly one or more of you guys can organize this.so here goes i have no confidence that mac will use the whitey tape as i think he might be too decent of a person and not want to unleash that kind of strife.im not a professional writer just a concerned hillary supporter that has 3 small children to support and i am very concerned about what a obama presidancy would mean to this country.so with this said and a big so sorry to larry here goes.larry and from time to time email each other and 2 days ago i had told him how much my small business here in phx was suffering since the crash started and i asked him if the tape was real.here is what larry replied to me [michael brooks from media matters was the primary source and sy hersh was the confirmation with a additional confirmation from a unamed cia buddy.i have tried to get this out without directly breaking a trust ,but with the crap going on in the media i beleive we as a community must force the issue.larry did not make any of this up he is what he has always been a honest broker of important information.so again larry im sorry but i had to do it.

Comment by McTampaBayacuda | 2008-10-12 20:48:50

^I would love nothing more than to see that tape. Knowing or believing it exists doesn’t help us.

If someone has it they are in full control and will do whatever they wish. Personally, I prefer not to count on it.

I think Obama is guilty of fraud and excepting bribes through Rezko. That’s what I believe will bring him down.

 
 

Comment by AnninCA | 2008-10-12 20:35:52

Just a rumor, apparently…..but I do agree with the spirit!

 

Comment by AF catfish | 2008-10-12 20:36:16

Non-denial:

Asked about the claim that Mrs Obama accused her of having a close friendship with the Senator, she said: ‘I have no comment on anything.’

 

Comment by Alex01 | 2008-10-12 20:36:44

The story is designed to make Obama look not gay. I think it may be a preemptive strike of sorts on all the stuff that’s going to come out on him in the next three weeks. “Obama, gay? Well, he couldn’t be. Didn’t you hear that story about Vera Baker???”

Whatever.

Comment by WildChild | 2008-10-12 20:38:48

Someone might have to check the plumbing to see if Vera is really a Vern. Where’s Mick Dundee when you need him?

Comment by Patience | 2008-10-12 20:50:37

Comment by imustprotest | 2008-10-12 23:10:16

 
 
 

Comment by Dr. Kate | 2008-10-12 23:13:39

don’t forget: also a distraction from the far more damaging ayers, auchi, rezko, acorn, foreign donations stuff, so please don’t get distracted.

The clue give above: if the MSM goes after it you absolutely know it is a diversion.

 
 

Comment by MRS.MCMAD | 2008-10-12 20:44:59

Vera is not his type. Vern would be.

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Comment by catherine | 2008-10-12 20:50:05

That’s what I’m thinking. This could just be a distraction to keep bloggers and voters from the REAL damaging info on Nobama.

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-10-12 21:03:28

Yeah I agree….after that NPC appearance by LS. Did you see how Soetoro started pimping his two daughters….Rev Manning stated that he has proof that Soetoro is a closet homosexual? Nothing against gays, we just don’t that distraction in the WH…not when our country is in such a dire state!

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-10-12 21:04:50

 
 
 
 

Comment by Susan1968 | 2008-10-12 20:54:33

If her D.C. business was doing so well on 2007, why would she run to live in the Caribbean. I smell a buy off.

 

Comment by SJ | 2008-10-12 20:55:50

Maybe Obama likes it both ways, he did get married to Michelle but yet Larry said he was out looking for fun, and he also had a fling with the choir guys.

Maybe he is a closet gay that cant face up to it so Michelle is the cover, he was on the plane posing for the lady reporters so they could ooh and ahh at his groin shot, who knows what he is, the man maybe just one sick dude. lol

Comment by NYC | 2008-10-12 21:48:46

Maybe Obama likes it both ways, he did get married to Michelle but yet Larry said he was out looking for fun, and he also had a fling with the choir guys.

I know a few gay men that are married and even have children but have male lovers with the knowledge and approval of their ‘wives’. They have an arrangement with these women. These men are not bisexuals. We have many of these types in the government.

 
 

Comment by CarolynKB | 2008-10-12 20:57:16

Oh no, don’t tell me that their is a rumor circulating around that the messiah has been plowing the wrong field. Surely it could not be that the “one” chosen by god for this moment msy get caught up in a scandal, I thought he was celibate. Brghahahahahahahahhahaha!