Is Vera Baker Surfacing as a Potential Story in the Presidential Race?
By Just Asking on October 12, 2008 at 7:48 PM in Current Affairs
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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Michelle said… if you can`t keep your own house in order…how can you keep the white house in order.
KARMA…BABY
I certainly hope nobody stops “being proud” of their country over any of this.
OT — Matthew Weaver — I left a comment for you re BO’s so-called tax cuts on the Hannity open thread.
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
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.
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.
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.
Two words—Larry Sinclair.
LMBO- That’s what I thought. The whispers this time are about a woman, the Obama camp must consider that progress. LMBO
haaha
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 gramHowler from Baker’s London lawyers.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.
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?
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?
its the people that have low self esteem.
mabe you should get some therapy
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.
Or, the “Whitey” house.
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?
Lesson for MO: Do not throw stones when you live in a glass house. Elizabeth Edwards has just learned her lesson.
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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Pathetic. You pathetic people believe any crap you read on backwater blogs. Take off your tinfoil hat. He is your president, deal.
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.
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.
Yep just like the affair by Edwards right…just rumor.
Maybe this was put out there to counter any rumours that nobama is gay/bisexual?
I agree.
Oblowme isn’t interested in the fairer sex.
Oblowme described his male Pakistani roomie as “well-built”.
Hello! There’s your sign.
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.
It’s probably a diversion done by the Obama campaign. Focus on the real connections with Ayers and Odinga.
I agree…focus on the all the other shit which this dude is up to his ears in!
Steve, why don’t you eat s..t and die bitch! If you have nothing positive to say, just shut your filthy mouth.
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.
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.
Right
Amen.
But perhaps we can add her to the list of the smarmy
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
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.
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”?
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…
wasn’t it Huey Long?
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.”
Or if it was tied to a Republican. The Press is in the tank for the Messiah Barack Hussein Obama.
It was news for Bill Clinton-why shouldn’t it be news for Obama.
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!
hmm — It makes me feel slightly better about Obama. I can’t see anyone being monogomistic with Michelle. YECH
Well, the Larry Sinclair allegations are well-known and likely are true. So this revelation is certainly consistent with his behavior according to Sinclair.
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?
Ha! It’s probably a cover for the Sinclair end of things, so to speak.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent points wry!!
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!
No quarter is the BEST at putting out lies and slime - no doubt about it. Again, I ask, where are the whitey tapes???
Nobody with any real sense of conscience would even publish those tapes.
Totally inappropriate.
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.
Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
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.
MEchelle is chained in their whine cellar.
who needs michelles whitey tape her husband does enough for them both….
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.
I hope that he is going to actually do it.
dark knight — the ad by McCain this morning was anything but respectful. Best ad so far.
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
But willingly.
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.
As if! Rat Race is a delightfully hilarious film!
it’s a non issue for me anyway, unless they have a love child
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.
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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
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:
Bwahahahaha!!!
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.
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.
^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.
Just a rumor, apparently…..but I do agree with the spirit!
Non-denial:
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.
Someone might have to check the plumbing to see if Vera is really a Vern. Where’s Mick Dundee when you need him?
ROFLMAO!!!
Oh I was thinking of this Vern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtISvNF0MIA
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.
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That’s what I’m thinking. This could just be a distraction to keep bloggers and voters from the REAL damaging info on Nobama.
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!
need
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.
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
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.
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!
I cannot imagine Barky in bed with a woman. I used to think he was sexy as hell, OK , I’ll admit it.
Now I think he’s a cross between Damien and Urkel.
I agree I can’t picture him in bed with a woman either. He dislikes women too much. His dislike and distain for women rises off him like a vapour, impossible to miss.
It is also the vapour of complete and total disinterest. Women can sense that, and I get a strong signal from Barky.
You all have lived a much too sheltered a life if you think by having sex with women he wouldn’t also have sex with men, and vice versa. Good heavens, read your Freud, people!
And if you think he wouldn’t have sex with women just because he doesn’t like them, you need to bone up (sorry of the pun) on your Psych 101.
Medusa is right. There are also many women married to supposedly ’straight’ men that have been infected with the HIV virus by their husbands. Some want to believe that it happened because the man was fooling around with another woman, but in most cases is not… if you know what I mean.
The question is why would she leave the US to go to the Caribbean, it cant be to set up business Martinique is not a big business island, and judging from her qualification I really don’t see what she could be possibly doing there.
Read the story: she fell in love with a man from there. That isn’t that hard to understand.
I agree there is no reason for this owner of a business to leave for an indefinite time, and Michelle Obama has been missing in action during this time as well…remember the 9 11 services ,no Michelle.
The need for the partner not to squeal results in a job with Biden for her…sweet. This does sound like Obama’s knob has been making the rounds.
Larry Sinclair has been very quiet lately as well.
Do you think he left the country yet?
This isn’t just spreading like a wildfire, it spreading like a firestorm. Nothing like a juicy sex scandal to get the press and internet buzzing. Sex and money, we know about the “ones” flexible money deals, now maybe we will get something about his flexible sex.
Man, Larry Sinclair, Vera or is Vern, Donald Young, murder, campaign funds…someone pass me the popcorn, getting hot!
Man, Larry Sinclair, Vera or is it Vern, Donald Young, murder, campaign funds…someone pass me the popcorn, getting hot!
I wonder if the press is going to send a field of reporters out to Martinique now to dig up the dirt like they were all happy to do in Alaska.
The can go snooping around, I know those island people and if there is is story with Vera it will come out faster than you can say Obama.
Caribbean island life is laid back and they love to gossip in the Caribbean, everyone knows everyone else business, so they should send a few reporters out there it wont take long to get a story
No, because women are considered stronger than AA candidates.
That doesn’t line up with reality, but that’s the perspective.
It’s obvious.
That’s our reality.
Hi folks
Sorry this is OT but I thought you’d like to see it.
Take a look at what I found stumbling along the world wide web. LOL
Here is the truth about health care plans by the 2 campaigns:
HSI Network LLC has done an independent assessment of both plans and I think you and all folks with a desire for a clear understanding of what is really being propsed by McCain & Obama will appreciate their work. You can view the assessments at : http://www.hsinetwork.com/
Here is the opening paragraph from each review:
McCain: http://www.hsinetwork.com/McCain_HSI-Assess_10-08-2008.pdf
John McCain proposes boldly to fix the United States’ broken health insurance system.
He will replace the current income tax exemption for health insurance premiums paid by
employers with a refundable tax credit available to all every U.S. citizen under age 65 to
purchase health insurance either through their jobs or as individuals. He will also provide
additional assistance for high-risk people to purchase a Guaranteed Access (GAP) plan.
If these proposals were implemented immediately and in total, there would be a
reduction in the uninsured by 27.5 million covered lives (from 47 million) at an
annual cost of $287 billion.
Obama: http://www.hsinetwork.com/Obama_HSI-Assess_08-21-2008.pdf
Barack Obama’s proposal includes an array of policy components acting in combination.
If implemented immediately and in total, there would be a reduction in the
uninsured by 25.5 million covered lives (from 47 million) at an annual cost
exceeding $452 billion dollars. The Obama proposal has a range of initiatives intended
to increase health insurance coverage and make it more affordable. In general, the
proposal is a potpourri of prior initiatives that lacks an integrated design. It is primarily a
list of ‘fixes’ with little discussion of contradictions among specific plan elements (e.g.,
states’ rights for health reform vs. mandatory child coverage) and raises questions
regarding the operational components of the plan if passed as legislation. The one
signature component of the plan is mandated coverage for all children. This alone would
yield a reduction in the uninsured population of approximately 12.6 million people – with
a cost of approximately $211 billion.
As you can see there is a big difference between the 2. I was impressed with the content and the projected outcome. Please read it all and share it!
Is too bad that this comes too late in the game. Any way that’s were we are. My views. And by the way this has nothing to do with my support for McCain or my disdain for Obama. There is nothing more important to me that the solution of this problem.
The McCain plan is better not because is better than Obama’s but because is better in terms of solving the stranglehold that the AMA and the Insurance Cos. have on us. It is also fair to minorities and better for African Americans. Why? Because both groups are prone and higher risks for long term pervasive and hereditary conditions.
The good thing about the McCain plan is that it will lead to an ultimate solution to the health care problem in America. Why? Because it will ultimately dis-empower the AMA. How? In a free system, the AMA will be vulnerable to innovations and new ways to interacting between physicians. We need to break the monopoly of physician to physician lock-up of the health care system.
The Obama plan is the reverse. It is better in terms of what it offers, but it will collapse by its own weight. It is bad for minorities and blacks. Bad for women and children. It will tend to stigmatize people from the cradle to the grave.
The Obama plan will end up in a complete melt-down of the health care system similar to the financial melt-down of today with a total tyrannical and dictatorial rule of AMA, insurance companies and government. Total loss of freedom. And in my opinion will cost at least min. 18% of monthly gross income. Plus 16% SS/Med. Plus 20% income tax. Equal = 54% of gross income by 2016. Plus property taxes and sales taxes you are looking at paying 70 to 75% in taxes to local, state and federal government then. Plus a lousy health care system.
Great analysis. Thanks for looking at it. I was really impressed but I am not such a teriffic writer. Iw ould love to see an article on NQ about the plan and see if maybe we can help get it out to folks.
Your calculations have no basis and are quite erroneous. You need to take more stats and economics. I bet your grades were probably “E’s” and “F’s” in these categories.
The potential is for McCain system to gain strength (cover more people with more benefits and cost less per benefit) as it goes while the Obama system to loose strength as it goes (cover less people with less benefits and cost more per benefit).
Sounds like a good job for the Enquirer.
Hey as it turns out-they try printing the truth compared to our corporate controlled media, who push all these fluff stories on Soetoro, they are gutless and they border on the criminal>
McCain vows a respectful campaign - what a moron. I wish we had someone who wants to win. I can’t stand the thought of obama being President. OMG
Good grief! I can see the MSM now, running all over the islands trying to get the scoop on a sex scandal, while the real shake-in-your-shoes news, such as associations with known terrorists and nefarious characters, a real question of his US citizenship, and deep ties to ACORN are passed over.
You are confused by Internet myths. Read the truth:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
If you want to vote for Senator McCain because you prefer his policies–that’s understandable. But don’t spread false rumors about a person’s patriotism. That’s the lowest form of low.
As for Ayers, do you really want to damn someone for serving on a charitable, education board with someone? There were well respected Republicans on that board who by your reasoning also “associated with terrorists.”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp
Chickens are certainly coming home to roost. lol
BO likes it both ways though. Ask Larry Sinclair!!
http://larrysinclair.org/
Our society exists in a tabloid world. Perhaps this issue is just overdone and common to many that they are desensitized by it. But, many will talk about this gossip and pretend that they didn’t hear anything about Ayers, Rezko, ACORN, Wright etc. I wonder who has principles anymore?
Maybe there is something coming out about Obama being gay because I have seen on another site where their is a pic of him kissing a few women today, some were saying that maybe he is trying to deflect some story that is coming out.
Drudge
ZOGBY MONDAY: OBAMA 48%, MCCAIN 44%… DEVELOPING…
Gallup has the gap narrowing too. The Ayers stuff is working. Now they still have Rezko, Wright, and plenty more.
Yeah but BTD at talkleft has typed in at least 3 times a day for the last week the election is over. The “well educated” “creative” class can’t be wrong.
BTD has said that every day since January. He never changed his tune even when the polls were way tighter than generic Dem vs. generic Rep. BTD has a mancrush on Obama and doesn’t know it.
What’s working is the ACORN stuff. It connects with both the financial meltdown and the corruption of unsavory participations.
Yes of course, that too. Many things working that coincide, the whole greater than the sum of the parts.
One thing to keep in mind is that when the Obama campaign and the media are telling McCain that he should change his stragedy and that negative doesn’t work, you know what he’s doing is working.
I think they’re scared and there’s nothing they can do to stop the trend.
Bye Bye Obama!
Gosh, there is some much substantive stuff on Obama and you guys are talking about Obama being gay. Obama is not gay. I don’t want Obama to win the presidency but I am not interested in overreaching allegations. Let us move on from this Obama is gay stuff.
PUMA!
I don’t see how you can say that. How would you or anyone else know? And don’t cite the wife and kids as reason. If you doubt me, ask any mental health practitioner how many “straight” patients they have.
That being said, I agree we should focus on what is provable, such as Ayers, ACORN, Rezko, Wright, birth certificate, etc.
First of all, who would care if he is Gay? Is there a law against being Gay?
Second, you have nothing to support this slur.
Does the dive to the sewer by posters on this board mean that Republicans really are intellectually bankrupt? We are in the midst of two wars and facing the biggest economic crisis in 70 years and all you folks care about are rumors and slanders about someone’s sexual orientation?
Calm down everyone including the trolls pretending not to be trolls.
smith denies:
my email has been lighting up today with the blogospheric rumor that one Ben Smith of Politico.com is suppressing the ultimate Obama story.
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Neither specifies the story I’m suppressing, and I hate to disappoint, either on the big-story or the media-conspiracy fronts, but fear I must.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Sitting_on_it.html
smith is the ‘reporter’ that all through the primaries everyday he would post a link to an obama fundraising page. If we had functioning FEC ben smith would be in deep trouble.
So if smith is the one ‘reporter’ sitting on the story forget it’s sat on.
What story is he referring to?
smith doesn’t say but the big story right now is obama cheating on the old battleaxe. So 2+2.
Cheating with a man or a woman?
This country is really going down hill fast. It seems that the media is so preoccupied with getting Obama elected that they are willing to conceal the truth. Acorn is stealing the election for Obama. Ayer’s was involved with him and in all likelihood still is. This was an unrepentant terrorist. If Obama gets elected with control of a democratic congress we are going to be repentant. This country will fall in total control of the liberal left. No checks and balances. In my opinion many in the media should be arrested for treason to this country. The Obama campaign is crying racism, this is the way they avoid the truth. This is the same thing they did to Hillary, cry racism when someone spoke the truth and they had no answer. When is AMERICA going to wake up? Obama is a fraud!!!.
Not so much arrested for treason as to be required a certification through a test in civics and ethics and a credential that would be pulled if unethical practices.
Personally I wouldn’t believe obama was cheating on that old battleaxe any more than I’d believe Edwards cheated on his wife…
YES! Cheating on a wife is reason enough to not be elected president!!!
Of course the Obama rumors have not been verified, and McCain has admitted that he cheated on his wife with a beauty queen, but lets not let facts get in the way of what feels right…
VOTE MCCAIN! The cheater we know is not gay!!!
Is that the current standard for the commander-in-chief threshold?
I guess our country really is screwed…
LOL!!! In more ways than one. I don’t care who the president is sleeping with as long as they have our nation’s interests at heart. Obama doesn’t, he has Africa and socialism in his heart.
How many narcissitic politicians with a messiah complex do you know that don’t have an appetite for the naughty? I’ve been waiting for something to spring out of the bushes on Obama.
Looking forward to more updates, if only for the entertainment value - watching the campaign and the media expedite yet another Obama escape from the straight jacket trick.
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.
There are also many women married to supposedly ’straight’ men that have been infected with the HIV virus by their husbands. Some want to believe that it happened because the man was fooling around with another woman, but in most cases is not… if you know what I mean.
Michelle, who’s the one who can’t take care of “her own house” now??
Ugly witch.
Just pay attention to the way Michelle looks at her ‘husband’…
I am LOVING the tracking polls coming out tomorrow.
Who said this race is over?? Not surprising, especially during the primaries when McCain was “out of money” and “doomed” and “had no chance.”
As a Democrat, I have never been happier to say “Mac is back.”
The tightening in the polls is a result of many things: The Ayers attacks are working; people don’t REALLY trust BO on the economy, he was just benefiting in the polls due to not being from the incumbent party, which always suffers in terms of the economy during an election year; and the closer we get to election day, more and more people are going to say “Who is Obama”? OR “I don’t really trust that man…”
The economy is actually helping McCain. People want somebody experienced. Obama is dragging his two TelePrompters to rallies even though he has a big lead. He is in waaayyy over his head with the economic crisis.
Crisis - people want McCain.
The powers that be… that made the brand “Obama” from the nothing he was and is… can just as easily take it all away. Let’s be hopeful they decide to “punt” on this one. No doubt there are more where he came from.
AF catfish, I totally agree.
I mean - if you need two TelePrompters in a crisis - you’re just too high-maintenance. Yeah I agree with you too L.E.
I don’t know about you folks, but I just LOVE karma. I remember being totally incensed at Michelle’s anti-Hillary comments (”You can’t take care of your own house)”. Like, who blames the woman? Who does that?! Especially not another woman… Now I am loving the idea that Gutter Ball cheated on her stupid @$$!
I don’t want to see Mechelle in the White House, but I have to say, I feel sorry for her and her little girls if this is true. I remember how bad I felt for Hillary during the Monica affair, and thought she handled it so graciously.
Even if Mechelle is mean, if she really cares for Barack, which I assume she does, this is a terrible hurtful thing to go through, especially when everything is put in the newspapers and you have to face the public. Very humiliating.
I felt so much pride in Hillary and so much contempt for Bill during the Lewinski nonsense. I was in Europe and the only thing going for us was Hillary. SHe had such dignity and class. It was she only that maintained the dignity of the presidency in the eyes of the world.
If this is true I want Michelle to make his balss ass stand there on the door strp and apologize to the nation whilst Michelle pitches his shit out the 2nd floor window and changes the locks.
OhioMary, true. Now imagine running for office and having the WIFE of your opponent throw your husband’s affair in your face, BLAMING YOU for not being able to “take care of your own house.”
She deserves it.
Likeable enough - I agree she was awful and hateful in her remarks,and I think she was way out of line, but I have found that many times a person can be arrogant and hateful by not understanding or having empathy for what someone has gone through because they haven’t experienced it themselves. Maybe this life experience will make her a better person. If it is true, Obama is an A$$ for putting her through this.
vera baker is probably a man
Comment by Likable Enough | 2008-10-12 22:17:02
The tightening in the polls is a result of many things: The Ayers attacks are working; people don’t REALLY trust BO on the economy, he was just benefiting in the polls due to not being from the incumbent party, which always suffers in terms of the economy during an election year; and the closer we get to election day, more and more people are going to say “Who is Obama”? OR “I don’t really trust that man…”
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Likable Enough,
I also think the ACORN voter fraud is turning a lot folks off too.
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Lurker, true that. ACORN is exploding faster than you can say Vera Baker.
LMAO, the RNC website has a neat feature called “Barack’s ACORN Tree” where you can see all of his ACORN entanglements. LMFAO
Barack Obama having a heterosexual affair is a total nonstarter. After hearing about Larry Sinclair, most people would probably say “Thank God.” Forget about this and concentrate on the things that really matter, like Ayers, Acorn, Alinsky and the Chicago New Party.
Retired, this is less of an attack on Barack as it is karma for Michelle.
And I love it.
You can hate Michele Obama for whatever reason. However, this is what she said. It was never a shot at Hillary.
“That one of the most important things that we need to know about the next President of the United States is, is he somebody that shares our values? Is he somebody that respects family? Is a good and decent person? So our view was that, if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’’t run the White House. So, so we’’ve adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he’s traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I’’m home before bedtime. So the girls know that I was gone somewhere, but they don’t care. They just know that I was at home to tuck them in at night, and it keeps them grounded, and, and children, the children in our country have to know that they come first. And our girls do and that’s why we’re doing this. We’re in this race for not just our children, but all of our children.
Your quote does not correspond to the video. And you do not provide a link to an official transcript from a news organization.
If anyone did their homework on Obama’s past friends, they would find out that starting with Frank Marshall Davis, Ayers, Dohrn and more. The whole climate at that time was very open free sex among friends. Gay and straight. They all discuss it in different writings. They are big swingers.
Why would Obama be any different? I am sure Michelle knows that part of his life and might be a part of it as well. However, swinging and falling in love are two very different things.
If Obama fell in love with this Vera girl then Michelle would go crazy. If she got pregnant, wow………..
Vera Baker is a major fundraiser in Washington DC for the Congressional Black Caucus. She recently pulled up stakes and moved to Martinique…..hmmmmmmmm easy to hide a pregnancy in the Virgin Islands.
I do believe that as a young man engaged in homosexual activity. Thanks to Gramps, Stanley Dunham, who introduced Obama,a 9yr.old innocent, vulnerable,confused (abandoned by his father at 2yrs. of age and then his mother at 9yrs. not knowing am I white, am I black, am I an antheist-like Mom & Gramps, am I a Muslim-like my step-dad or posssibly Catholic from school? to Frank Marshall Davis,an adult gay, black, alleged communist,sexual pervert(menage au toi w/wife & 13yr.old girl), alcohol abusing,pothead. He “Mentored” Obama for 9years. I think Obama as a child was psychologically damaged. Later in life, to somehow ease the pain, he began to “due unto others” as was done to him and found out his sexual services with wealthy college friends(including Ayres) had served dual purposes.
Wow!
I is really interesting how quick people believe a rumor with any proof. But demand proof to have it discounted. The woman said “no affair” The NY Times did the same thing to McCain.
Very insightful post. People smear a man’s name based on nothing other than an internet smur campaign. In my view this is the same as the McCain affair with the lobbyist, Vicky Iseman. McCain denied it; she denied it. End of story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/21/2008-02-21_john_mccain_affair_rumor_swirls.html
Just finished perusing the Obama 2004 senate campaign finance papers.
No one named Vera Baker mentioned there.
… but there are some very shaky payments made to a woman named Veruca Salt. I think that’s why it’s been so hard to finds this women. We have her name wrong.
Well, I can see it all from Obama’s stand point, what man could stand having to waking up to that ugly mad woman everyday. Just a note, I read Obama’s campaign had originally said Hillary Clinton was the source of this rumor, or more. None that it is back out there with they ar saying it is a Republican smear. Where is the National Enquirer when they are needed?????????
I guess the difference between McCain being accused and Obama, is that McCain didn’t try to have lawyers start threatening if the rumor wasn’t squelched. Plus, Obama has had a long association with this woman Vera Baker. It needs to be checked out, check travel for both, pay check stubs, bank records, if possible, to see how she is supporting herself. Her former partner heads Joe Biden’s campaign finance.
I almost fell over in shock today when I saw a kid about 14, wearing a tee shirt that said, “Obama is my Jesus.” What parent would let a kid wear such. A tee shirt saying Obama,okay, but he isn’t the Messiah, and he shouldn’t condone tee shirts or other items that picture him in this light. It is degrading to him and all Christians.
Renee Obama is an infant that was born in Maryland and murdered in the Carribean.
Link? Date? Any other info?
Here is a tip. Anyone that wants to dig deeper please look at May 17th 2004. Vera Baker and Barack Obama stayed together at the Hotel George in Washington DC.
FROM Larry Johnson
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Marlen, as I see it, the difference is really that this is just another unsubstantiated grumbling from the right. While we all know that John McCain left his crippled first wife for some Cindy chick……(I pulled that from my republican playbook, if it looks bad, the other guy must have done worse, keep digging)
Grow up people! John McCain left his crippled wife to be with his current wife Cindy. Michelle Obama ought to be ashamed of this country with its racist and hypocritical views. You always want to say return to Africa, Mexico and Asia, how about you return to England and let the few Indians you did not kill have their country back.
I remember when Scarlett Johansson said she and Obama text-message each other all the time. Like the ditz she is, she thought this was a pro-Obama thing to say: “I can’t believe such a busy, important person can make time to keep in touch with someone as unimportant as me!” she gushed (I’m paraphrasing, but that’s pretty close.) Then Obama went into damage control and said he only text-messaged her once. Then we never heard from her again re Obama — they obviously told her to shut up and disappear. So if he can make the moves on a famous movie star on the campaign trail with media all around him, imagine what fun he had back in Chicago with all his cronies protecting him.
What stupid unsubstantiated piece of crap. Who cares? So I guess they all cheat, including McCain. Is this supposed to be shocking?! It’s gossip! Even if it’s true it is their business to deal with. It did not stop people from electing and re-electing McCain for his position. Maybe Cindy McCain can talk to her about how to deal with a cheating man? Or maybe she can tell her about what it is like to be the other woman? God does not like a lying tongue and all God-fearing people should know this much. (Proverbs 6:16) Stay out of people’s business. There is nothing but hatefulness going on here.
First off… obama could easily be a DOWNLOWER as Oprah’s show on this subject pretty much goes with what we know about Obama; and the implications about a well known preacher that was into this activity also makes you go want to go ” hmmm… ”
Second off … Larry Sinclair says Obama did cocaine and gay sex with him. Rezko trial says Rezko had “all male” monthly cocaine parties! Add to this Obama and his close association and shady undertakings with Rezko and you again want to go ” hmmm… ”
Third we have this money laundering story and his close attachment to VERA BAKER! They mention how “angry” michelle was … I always think of the REZKO trial coming up about the time he won the nominee and how nervous they appeared! I was sure he was thinking they were finally going to get him!
and finally… what of the gay choir director that was murdered and connected with all the stories involving obama and sinclair. Another ” hmmm… ”
Start adding them up …. REZKO, REV WRIGHT, ODINGO, FARRAKHAN, JESSE JACKSON, DAVIS (Uncle Frank ), AYERS, and the list goes on !!
Most were trying to keep a low profile as they knew their association with him would AX his chances at the presidency … as it should!
OBAMA is so obviously corrupt that it blows my mind that anyone would even consider voting for this man. Add to that his “allegiance to Africa and his own” just as his church of over 20yrs and his good bud REV WRIGHT had on the Chicago UCC webpage ( before revisions when the media got ahold of it ). Wish I had the screenshots of this obvious racism!
This is NOT a man for all people ! and we can’t even be sure with his ANTI AMERICAN connections. activites, and actions that he is even “for” AMERICANS ( campaigning for Odingo who was connected with genocide activities .
I personally believe that his NOT wearing the flag pin and his NOT crossing his heart during the national anthem are signs that he “pledges allegiance to Africa and his own” just as his church doctrine of 20 yrs proclaimed!
KNOWING THIS ..
HOW CAN ONE EVEN CONTEMPLATE VOTING FOR A MAN OF THIS CALIBER TO PUT HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE!?
and last but not least — see LYLE’s comments
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/275493.php
Well if Vera Baker isn’t Obama’s mistress, she probably would have been mysteriously murdered during the campaign instead of just paid to go hide on an island until after the election.
Do an internet search on Vera Baker now - while it’s still allowed… Obama’s ‘team’ was already making it quite clear before he came to power that ‘The One’ cannot be questioned without the questioners being threatened by lawsuit or by being harrassed and investigated.
Also, buy a gun now while you still can.
Nice story. So where is the follow up? Oh it WAS just a fucking rumor. You people are seriously sick in the head. Good luck next election. Can’t wait to see your party implode 2010.