Dirty Tricks 101
Obama - The Sinclair Tapes Part 2

To start with, Larry Sinclair has absolutely no proof to back up his story. Personally, I would think that even if Obama were gay, he would have better taste than to get oral sex from this deranged individual; that is my personal opinion.

Second, Larry Sinclair is a convicted felon in Colorado, Arizona and  Florida (even The Globe acknowledges this) - human trafficking in aliens from Mexico to the U.S., trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, and various fraud charges. Roger Altman's National Enquirer ignores this, except for the brief caption on the above photo, and this brief mention:

"Obama ... was recently the target of gay rumors when ex-con Larry Sinclair posted a video on the Internet, claiming he had sex with the senator."

The Globe, while not pointing out the ex-con connection as a caption or a subhead, does at least bury the details in the story:

"Sinclair admits to the Globe that he's spent years in prison in Florida, Colorado, and Arizona on various fraud charges, and further admits trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, as well as illegal aliens from Mexico."

Third, the wicked bias of the two tabloids shows through pretty clearly with their selection of photographs - making Sinclair look better than he does, making Michelle Obama look like an ugly, enraged diva, and Obama looking like a skinny little "sissy boy" in the act of drawing on a joint.

While The Enquirer goes after the "murder" angle and Obama's so-called ties to terrorists, The Globe goes after the "gay sex" angle.

Let's look at some of the accusations - and then the known facts.

"Marked for Death"?

"The Barack Obama gay sex scandal has exploded as the man at the center of the controversy levels the shocking new accusation that he's been marked for death even as he's branded a liar."

I supposed Sinclair can produce letters, written death threats or taped evidence that he's indeed "marked for death."

Nope, just the word of this fine, brave, upstanding citizen.

Oh, he adds:

"I got an e-mail at YouTube saying the Democrats were definitely going to have me killed. Obama and his chief political strategist David Axelrod want me dead and out of the picture!"

An e-mail? My God! And where is this e-mail? Was it maybe from Samantha Power calling Sinclair "a monster"?

No? Well, I suppose it was signed by Axelrod or Obama themselves, right? Or maybe it was signed "Herbert Hoover"? You never know how sly those vicious Democrats can be.

I've read some of Sinclair's YouTube "e-mail" (comments, actually, before Sinclair disabled them and wiped them out) and, true, there are an awful lot of people calling him a sick, toothless faggot (he's not toothless, I think he's got dentures) - even worse - but I've not yet seen any death threats from the Obama campaign. Nor any letters of praise yet from Hillary Clinton or John McCain.

The Globe claims it first published the "world exclusive" on March 3 - an issue I must have missed. The Sinclair videos have been on YouTube for much longer than that, so it's hardly a "world exclusive."

The 46-year-old Duluth, Minn. Sinclair claims his tryst with Obama took place in November 1999 in the back seat of a limousine Sinclair was driving.

He claims "he was introduced to Obama at a bar by the driver of his rented limo." Unfortunately, no driver has yet come forward to back him up.

The Globe adds "and new, unrelated whispers that the handsome Democrat had other gay flings." You read it, and you wait for any evidence of these "unrelated whispers." Finally, you come to yet another teaser:

"New whispers on the Internet that Obama may have had gay relationships with others in the past (emphasis is mine)."

Oh, well - keep reading:

"Meanwhile, Sinclair's claims have sparked Internet whispers about Obama's sexual history. Some posts question the Democratic front-runner's activities while at Columbia University in New York in the early 1980s.

"One poster writes Sinclair's claims 'caught my eye because a family friend...is an openly gay man and says that he dated Obama at Columbia...I believe the family friend.'

Adds another, 'There are MANY Obama bisexual stories while on drugs...surfacing around his alma mater."

Oh, that certainly sounds like a source we can believe!

The only person the Globe can name says quite the opposite:

"But any suggestion Obama could be associated with gay activities of any kind comes as a shock to schoolmate Keith Kakugawa, who remembers him as a skirt-chasing hound (are those Kakuwaga's words - I think not!) when they crashed a party at the University of Hawaii:

"I remember getting beers for everyone and when I came back two minutes later, there were six girls around him ... There were plenty more parties like that."

Well, that certainly clarifies things - a gay male womanizer! We should have seen that coming with the "bisexual" characterization earlier. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too! And that would certainly fit right in for a devoted Muslim terrorist Manchurian Candidate, wouldn't it?

Still, the Globe persists:

"Says an insider: "The question now is if there's any credence to these new allegations, or if it's just an attempt to smear Obama. Only time will tell."

That seems to be a no-brainer. And time is what Hillary Clinton needs most.

The Globe starts winding up its little piece of "journalism" with the statement that Oprah Winfrey is furious, quoting not Oprah, of course, but "a friend":

"Oprah is furious about this whole mess. She sees this as nothing more than an organized, vicious smear job. I'm sure she'd like nothing more than to come out and blast the whole thing. But I'm sure she knows that if she does that, it would give the guy credibility. And that's the last thing she wants."

Yeah, I'd have to agree with the Globe on that one. But they still have to get in one parting shot:

"But one longtime political strategist (wouldn't be Karl Rove, would it?) tells Globe: 'At some point Obama and his people are going to have to address this whole mess. It's going to become a major campaign issue if they're not careful."

It could become a campaign issue if the Clinton or Rove machine is behind it - and wouldn't that help the Globe sell a lot more papers!

Now I'm not going to go "jump in the tank" for Obama. I don't know if he's gay or not and, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Barney Frank is openly gay and he seems to be doing okay. If Obama is gay and is lying about it or just not wanting to come out of the closet, that could spell trouble for him. Look at Senator Larry Craig. Oh, that's right, I forgot - he's a Republican and he's not running against Hillary Clinton.

Some mainstream media (MSM) columnists (Maureen Dowd, if I recall correctly, cast their own aspersions, such as claiming that "Obama is more effeminate than Hillary." Well, that's not saying a lot! I guess even Arnold Schawrzenegger might be considered, by some of her harshest critics, to be more effeminate than Hillary. And wasn't he one of those pretty boy "body builders"? Sorry, Arnie, just kidding!

Seriously, though, I'm sure - from my own experiences in presidential politics - that Obama's handlers are crossing their fingers and hoping this will go away - and maybe some them even are doing some things behind the scenes to squelch the story. From one point of view, it makes sense to ignore the story. But from another it doesn't. If that thought - "queer coke-sniffer' - is all that's imprinted on the gullible American minds and Obama doesn't grab the bull by the horns just like John Kennedy did with the "Catholic issue", then Hillary's base will grow and Obama's candidacy will be a footnote on the ash heaps of history.

Next, we'll take a look at other parts of the Globe story - the religious smears, his so-called links to cocaine traffickers, his "gang" connections, his so-called role as a secret terrorist whisked into the country to finish what Osama bin Laden couldn't.

Believe me, Hillary Clinton knows nothing about "throwing the kitchen sink" at someone until she reads the Globe (or maybe it's called the Gutter, I don't remember - but then, maybe she or her buddy Roger Altman, who is part owner of The National Enquirer, already has.

Then we'll take a look at how the Globe has smeared John McCain. Isn't interesting that those who get smeared are Hillary's opponents?

And then we'll turn to the real Clinton connection - The National Enquirer and its attempts to blame Obama for murder!

I now have a confession to make: Until I read the Globe and Enquirer stories - and discovered the "Hillary connection" - I hadn't made up my mind who to support. The day after I read that and discovered the Clinton-Altman link, I sent Obama a $50 contribution to his campaign - the first money I have ever contributed to a campaign in my life. So I guess that will be my "formal disclosure" and I just hope it doesn't interfere with my attempts to bring you the facts, pro and con, impartially in future posts.