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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Sunday, April 29, 2012
FROM JUNE 27, 2004...THE COVER-UP CONTINUES...
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
"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."
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