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Home Front: Politix
Obama Cheating Scandal (probably a hoax)
This story is everywhere but it's probably a hoax because Obimbo isn't walking with a limp.
PRESIDENT OBAMA has been caught in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide, sources say.

And now, a hush-hush security video that shows everything could topple both Obama's presidency and marriage to Michelle!

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions.

While Baker has insisted in the past that "nothing happened" between them, the ENQUIRER has learned that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous where the President was staying. On the condition of anonymity, the limo driver said he took Baker "from a friend's home in the DC area to the Hotel George where I learned later that Obama would be spending the night."

The driver recalled that he "waited in the lobby while she went to change her outfit.

"But to the best of my knowledge she did not have a room at the hotel and she was not staying there so I thought that it was a bit odd."

The driver said he then picked up Obama at the airport and drove both he and Baker to various locations while he was campaigning for funds. Vera accompanied him to each meeting.

"About 10:30 PM, I drove them to the hotel and they went in together!"

"My services for the evening were done - and there was no indication she was going to leave the hotel that night."

A top DC source told The ENQUIRER exclusively that the driver's account had been independently corroborated by investigators who believe the couple spent the night together at the hotel.

The ENQUIRER has also learned that on-site hotel surveillance video camera footage could provide indisputable evidence.

"Investigators are attempting to obtain a tape from the hotel (that) shows Vera and Barack together," the DC insider confided. "If the tape surfaces, it will explode the scandal."
Snicker. The One will not be smiling upon the Enquirer any time soon.
Posted by: gorb || 05/01/2010 04:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One glance at Michelle is to know that if Bambi had left the reservation, he is going to get the ever loving shit beat out of him.
Posted by: NCMike || 05/01/2010 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  You say probably a hoax. But let's remember who got the John Edwards story right and who didn't. And which media outlet gets sued at the drop of a hat. I ain't saying it's true, but the source doesn't make me doubt it any more than if it had been published by...say...the NYT.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/01/2010 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not putting any stock in this one until something solid comes out.

But I wouldn't doubt it either.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/01/2010 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  One glance at Michelle is to know that...

...Michelle is a closeted Thespian!
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 05/01/2010 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Vera is an attractive woman. M'chelle is....not
Posted by: Frank G || 05/01/2010 10:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Lately, the National Enquirer has become the newspaper of standing; certainly not the rest of the cat-scat covering lame-stream media. They got it right on Edwards and did the rest of the country a service. So far as I can tell a lot of the print media and internet is picking up this story but the original source is the National Enquirer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/01/2010 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Sad fact is that the Enquirer has a better track record than the NYT. They have to. They get sued every time they are wrong.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/01/2010 11:02 Comments || Top||

#8  The Enquirer can scoop the MSM not because they have lower standards, but because the MSM will protect liberal politicians when in the interest of their common cause. That said, I still hope the Enquirer is wrong. (And if they are right, I wouldn't want to be the Secret Service agent who has to protect Barry from Michelle!)
Posted by: DMFD || 05/01/2010 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Vera Baker

Posted by: Percy Unique One || 05/01/2010 11:25 Comments || Top||

#10  "About 10:30 PM, I drove them to the hotel and they went in together!"

"And then Vera went to room 122 and Obama went to room 625!" That's what I'm assuming absent any stronger evidence. Even if stronger evidence comes out, I'm still not sure that I'd give a rat's backside...two consenting adults, activity that isn't against the law, etc., etc.

Now if the Enquirer would turn its investigators loose on this or this, they'd be doing a REAL public service!
Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 05/01/2010 11:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Follow the money. Who's paying for Ms. Baker's extended vacation in Martinique.
Posted by: ed || 05/01/2010 11:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Until the tape mentioned in the article appears I'll assume it's a hoax. And paying for a vacation in Martinique shows corruption, not necessarily Presidential cheating. She worked to fundraise millions, she probably has a few rich old guys in her Rolodex.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 05/01/2010 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Interesting if true:

BASIC STORY: WHEN MICHELLE FOUND OUT, BAKER WAS FORCED TO "FLEE" TO MARTINIQUE - LEAVING BEHIND A LUCRATIVE JOB IN DC.


MAJOR NEWS: WHILE IN MARTINIQUE, SHE'S ON THE PAYROLL OF A CHICAGO MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT - A JOB ONLY THE MACHINE COULD GET YOU, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A "NO SHOW" JOB.
Posted by: ed || 05/01/2010 11:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Who knew Ms. Baker's "rich old guy" is a 177 year old from the midwest?
Posted by: ed || 05/01/2010 11:59 Comments || Top||

#15  This is too heavy to fake. The Enquirer has a habit of trotting out stories piece by piece. Can you IMAGINE the heat this will draw, it can't be fake, it would be their death sentence if it was.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 05/01/2010 13:26 Comments || Top||

#16  So far I have not seen anything but innuendo, allegation, and insinuation. Nothing that rises to evidence. It's not so hard to believe. After all, others with a narcissistic personality (Bill Clinton, John Edwards) have gone for a nearby young lady.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/01/2010 15:46 Comments || Top||

#17  Its fun to dream though......
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 05/01/2010 16:41 Comments || Top||


Judge Won't Subpoena Obama to Testify in Blagojevich Trial
Ay Pee . . .
U.S. District Judge James Zagel ruled Friday that lawyers for Mr. Blagojevich had not produced sufficient evidence that Mr. Obama would have anything material to say on the witness stand.
Posted by: gorb || 05/01/2010 04:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Judge Zagel is a Reagan appointee.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/01/2010 15:52 Comments || Top||


The Obama cheating scandal with Vera Baker likely a very bad hoax
"President Obama has been caught in a shocking cheating scandal!"

That is what a number of headlines are reading anyway. Sensationalism works, and right now nothing could be more sensational than a charge of President Obama being engaged in a little extramarital activity. The problem is knowing whether or not it is true. Before going any further, it has to be clearly known that this is all speculation at this point. There is not satisfactory evidence to say Obama has done what the tabloids are reporting.

According to unverified reports, president Obama was caught in a Washington D.C. hotel with a former campaign aide, 35 year old Vera Baker. According to known records Obama has been acquainted with Ms. Baker since around 2004 when she worked on his senatorial campaign. Baker was primarily known as a fundraiser who brought millions into the Obama campaign coffers over the years.
Posted by: tipper || 05/01/2010 04:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm going to suspend judgment and take with salts until something definitive.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/01/2010 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I hate for this to be true.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/01/2010 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Obama is one of the worst Presidents this country ever had, but at least I thought he was a good father and husband. I hope these rumors are false.
Posted by: DMFD || 05/01/2010 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Vera Baker

Posted by: Percy Unique One || 05/01/2010 11:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Better looking than the wookie but that's not saying much.
Posted by: Hellfish || 05/01/2010 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  if you woke up next to Patrick Ewing every morning, you'd be thinking Vera's a goddess
Posted by: Frank G || 05/01/2010 14:42 Comments || Top||



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