The Kenyan Wetback

Birth of the 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. Cont AP The Standard Ltd I & M Building, Kenyatta Avenue, P.O Box 30080, 00100 GPO, Nairobi-Kenya. Tel. +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 214467, 229218, 218965. Email: editorial@eastandard.net, online@eastandard.net News room Tel: +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 213108  I assume one will find several contemporaneous denunciations of this 2004 Associated Press allegation of Kenyan birth.  If not, wait a few days. One will be found in the New York Times archives.