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Obama has a mysterious lucky streak where his opponents tend to drop out of races against him after divorce records (for example) seem to materialize out of thin air
But no......
He doesn't do "smear" campaigns.
Wow, the sad thing is you probably believe this.
Now, to let THIS lie get debunked.
In 2004, one of Obama's opponents was a guy named Blair Hull. The thing was, Blair just didn't have "divorce records", he had an arrest record when his ex-wife had charged him with hitting her. (Both divorce and arrest records are Public in IL) It was also revealed that he called his wife the word that the moderators won't let us use outside the flame zone, which was pretty much the end of him. Oh, he tried to get his ex-wife to come out for him publically, then he tried to blame her personally. Nothing did in Blair Hull but his own arrogance.
Also, there were five other candidates in that race, including such heavy hitters as Maria Pappas, Gery Chico and Dan Hynes. None of them had issues with their divorce records.
Now, in the general election, we had another divorcee... and because of the issues with Hull, some people asked Jack Ryan if there was anything in his record. Ryan insisted up and down there wasn't, lied to the media that the issues were related to his special needs son, and that we just couldn't see why he would be divorce a hot actress like Jeri Ryan. (My theory was he actually saw an episode of
Star Trek:Voyager and lost all respect for her. I know I did.)
Well, the
media, not Obama, sued to open those records, and eventually prevailed, and guess what, found out that Ryan was being less than truthful.
Accusations about sex clubs and such. Now, personally, I think Ryan got a bad rap. I think she was making stuff up to get a better settlement. But the person who really did Ryan in was Judy Barr Topinka. She wanted to run against Blago and she didn't want a strong candidate to run for Senate to challenger her in 2006.
So she got the party to sandbag Ryan, she refused to give the nomination to Oberweis, who was the runner-up, and she brought in Alan Keyes to run. Apparently we didn't have one Conservative or Republican in the whole of IL to replace Ryan, so we imported a nutbag.
So, um, maybe you should study facts before you believing conspiracy theories you've heard on talk radio.