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-Election 2012
Obama mixes up Paul Ryan''s name
2012-09-10
In the interview conducted July 11 -- about a month before Ryan was tapped as Mitt Romney's running mate -- the president also misstated the first name of the man who is now on the opposing presidential ticket.

"I'll go ahead and say it -- I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there," the president told Woodward according to audio transcripts of their conversations, provided to ABC News.

(Jack Ryan is the name ... of the Republican who was slated to run against Obama in his 2004 Senate campaign before he withdrew in the wake of a sex scandal.)
I highlighted the "sex scandal" part of the above paragraph because it is such blatantly bad reporting. The "scandal" about Jack Ryan was due to his divorce records which were illegally made public during his run against O. This report whitewashes the Obama link to that release. The fix is in for O and always has been.
Correction: Mr. Ryan's divorce records were unsealed by a judge. State law (in most states) allows court records of a divorce (upon request of the parties involved) to be sealed. However, the reasons for the request must be stated and the grounds are fairly narrow. Previously sealed records can be unsealed if a party (not necessarily the man or woman) can convince a court that unsealing the records is in the public interest.

That's just what happened: the Chicago Tribune and WLS-TV, along with some of Mr. Ryan's primary opponents, convinced a California (where the divorce had been filed) judge that the public had a right to know about the details of Jack and Jeri Ryan's divorce, and the judge so ordered.

Details are in Wikipedia. Bottom line: it wasn't illegal, it was just sleazy. While Obama benefitted, he wasn't the obvious instigator (though David Axelrod, his manager, was also a former reporter for the Tribune).
Posted by:Spot

#10  10 North Korea-Korean War
Viet Nam - same
Cuba- Bay Of Pigs Same
Afghanistan Russia- Same
Obama Administration-Holly Wood And Chicago 1950's to present the same ! Atheists and Communists
Famous ghoul unloading giving Gods soldiers a pep talk in Afghanistan a communist ghoul Obama's closest adviser.
DNC convention crapping on God and booing God
Anyone who has fought communism or lost friends or family or has themselves become hurt or crippled should really examine what is running OUR COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND! The War Is In Our Country and all have been made to look for the boogey man in other places!
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647   2012-09-10 19:08  

#9  So why can't Anonymous, the MSM, et al get us John Kerry's military record or the One's college transcripts?

Because they are hidden in the same warehouse that the Ark of the Covenant and the aliens bodies from Roswell.

/sarc (as if...)
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-09-10 18:28  

#8  ..unsealing the records is in the public interest.


So why can't Anonymous, the MSM, et al get us John Kerry's military record or the One's college transcripts? Strange how it's always the records or emails of Trunks that just happen to be accessed. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-09-10 13:31  

#7  I could be wrong, but I suspect most people living in the vicinity of Decatur and further south, wrote off politics above the local and county levels years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-10 13:25  

#6  Doc, having grown up a downstate Republican, I have to disagree. I think Ryan wanted to spare his kids and he realized the fix was in, so why fight on. (As more evidence of the fix, recall that the Ill. Trunks went out of state to get Alan Keyes - talk about too much for the average downstate Republican - who was guaranteed to lose)
Posted by: Spot   2012-09-10 13:19  

#5  Spot, it was more than the average Illinois downstate Republican could stand.
Posted by: Steve White   2012-09-10 12:07  

#4  By any means Obama's ilk will try.
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-09-10 11:31  

#3  Obama just wishes his wife was as hot as Jack's ex.:
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-09-10 11:23  

#2  It still wasn't a"sex scandal", Doc.
Posted by: Spot   2012-09-10 11:19  

#1  I seem to remember Jack Ryan as a CIA analyst that became President thru a series of misadventures.
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-09-10 10:34  

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