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

Hmm…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 allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

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Barrack Obama

“It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race,” Ryan, 44, said in a statement. “What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play.”

Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was “truly outrageous” that the Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records.

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

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

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

The chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party, Judy Topinka, said at a news conference, after Ryan withdrew, that Republicans would probably take several weeks to settle on a new candidate.

“Obviously, this is a bad week for our party and our state,” she said.

As recently as Thursday, spokesmen for the Ryan campaign still insisted that Ryan would remain in the race. Ryan had defended himself saying, “There’s no breaking of any laws. There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere.”

—AP

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October 14, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics

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4 Responses to “From the AP in 2004: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate”

Montana on October 15th, 2009 3:12 pm

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 on October 17th, 2009 10:56 pm

Hey “Montana,” you posted that exact claim verbatim on another forum/blog. I hope you’re getting paid well.
Darren on October 24th, 2009 2:54 am

That article is not AP Style. It is a fake.
RogerV on November 6th, 2009 9:13 pm

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.

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