From the AP in 2004: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

husseinobamagoofy.jpgHmm…An AP story from 2004 entitled Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate has been discovered on archive.org by many sites (and twitter where I got this). Does this mean now that the AP is nothing but a bunch of birthers?

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

The Republican choice will become an instant underdog in the campaign for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, since Obama held a wide lead even before the scandal broke.

“I feel for him actually,” Obama told a Chicago TV station. “What he’s gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody.”

The Republican state committee must now choose a replacement for Ryan, who had won in the primaries against seven contenders. Its task is complicated by the fact that Obama holds a comfortable lead in the polls and is widely regarded as a rising Democratic star.

 

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October 14, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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  • Montana

    Wow, don’t you get it you are being punked. Remember other internet document that turned out to be FAKE, this is another one. You are getting punked.

  • Vince

    Hey “Montana,” you posted that exact claim verbatim on another forum/blog. I hope you’re getting paid well.

  • Darren

    That article is not AP Style. It is a fake.

  • RogerV

    Go to the WayBack Machine at:

    http://web.archive.org/

    enter “eastandard.net” into the search box and press Go button

    Look over to the 2004 column of the result listings, scan down to the “June 27, 2004″ link that appears in that column and click it

    The front page of the Sunday edition of the Sunday Standard Online Edition appears

    Scan down to middle of the page and look for the headline link: “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate” and click that link

    There is the article that proclaims the senatorial candidate Barrack Obama to be Kenyan born.

    Anybody can repeat this sequence of actions for themselves to dredge this out of the extensive Internet archives of the Wayback Machine. The article is there plain and simple.

    Today in 2008 or 2009 one might argue that faking an article about Obama being born in Kenya could be motivated as political attack. But back in 2004 there would have been no point as the office of Senate does not require the candidate to be natively born in the United States as does the office of president.

    There very point was made by Obama himself in a political debate with Alan Keys back in that time frame.

  • http://thedailyvex.blogspot.com Devon

    I agree, in theory, with the argument that this article is a fake. It really is not beyond reason that someone would create a document and post it, claiming it as legitimate, when in reality it is false.

    However, my concern is with the fact that the website shows it was last modified in 2004. That at least is interesting.

  • Thebluarc

    I no longer have any respect as to how our government conducts its self. When people want proof positive of a cantidates Birth LEGAL Birth Record. It should darn well be presented.

    • Anonymous

      Since when has the government done what the people wanted?
      It has been a long time, and recent years actions proves it.

    • Anonymous

      Since when has the government done what the people wanted?
      It has been a long time, and recent years actions proves it.

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