Monday, January 07, 2008

The Borg To Whom Obama Owes His Candidacy.

I was just explaining to my girlfriend the other day that the only reason Barack Obama was on the national stage was because the Treason Media took out his opponent in the 2004 Illinois Senatorial race, Jack Ryan - the guy had a frigging Tom Clancy hero name! - because he allegedly wanted to have sex with...[gasp!]...HIS WIFE!!! Not just any politician's wife, but this:



That's right; Seven of Nine herself, Jeri Ryan. As "The Woman Who Changed the World" posits:

In retrospect, Obama’s presidential run was the candidacy that almost never happened.

Back in 2004, Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator with some modest accomplishments on his resume. He spearheaded welfare reform in the Illinois statehouse, and took the lead in passing a law that required interrogations in murder cases to be videotaped...[and] in an 8-candidate race, Obama garnered 53% of the vote, routing his opponents.

Yet despite running away with the primary, Obama still had a formidable challenge in Republican Jack Ryan. Ryan was an impressive candidate - attractive and wealthy, with law and business degrees from Harvard. After making a fortune at Goldman Sachs, Ryan left to teach in an inner city school.

Yet Ryan had a problem - during the campaign, he was going through a messy divorce from actress Jeri Ryan, of “Star Trek: Voyager” fame. Details of Jeri Ryan’s testimony contained lurid details about Ryan forcing his wife to go to sex clubs in Paris. These details were toxic to Jack Ryan’s campaign, and he saw his poll numbers plummet - eventually, Republican leaders pressed Ryan to quit the race, fearing he was toxic to the statewide ticket.

Eventually, Ryan bowed out, leaving the Illinois Republican Party to find a candidate to run against Obama. This led to the national embarrassment of Alan Keyes moving to Illinois to run. Naturally, Obama won 70%-27%, buoyed by his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

The rest is history. Certainly, Obama deserves all the credit for the way he has excited Democratic crowds around the country - leading to his rout of Hillary Clinton in Iowa. And he may have beaten Jack Ryan on his own. But it’s fascinating to think that the salacious testimony of a woman scorned could one day fundamentally alter the path of the world in which we live. Without it, Barack Obama could still be sitting in the Illinois statehouse, planning his next political move.
Sure, it was tawdry, sleazy stuff (if true), but once again it shows that while the Stupid Party quickly executes those who run afoul of the law or common decency, the Dems protect and celebrate their reprobates, gathering power for themselves. Life’s easy when you have no shame.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Actually, Jack Ryan wanted Jeri, his wife, to perform in one of those sleezy sex clubs he took her to.

That's what happened...or so says the Chicago Sun-Times.

Dirk Belligerent said...

That's the allegation, but it's irrelevant beyond the novelty of a politician having a sex scandal with his own WIFE.

The real story is that Obama's path to power was greased with well-timed media leaks which knocked his competition out of the way; once before and then the Ryan race. Sealed records somehow made it into the press' hands and they gladly performed their partisan duty to clear the way for the Democrat.

Conversely, when he ran for President, the Treason Media deliberately lost all curiosity into his background, his college history and grades, and the radicals, racists, and terrorists he associated with. Other than Stanley Kurtz digging and Fox News reporting (along with conservative blogs), no one has looked into Barry's past, preferring to smear anyone who questions his continuing fascism as a racist, etc.