Dirty Tricks 101
Obama - The Sinclair Tapes Part 7

According to the Globe account of May 14, 2007, the now infamous photo of Obama in a red and white Somali is "proof" of a secret Muslim life. This is the same photo that online muckraker Matt Drudge claims he received from a Clinton staffer in February 2008, who was apparently trying to plant the same smears.

Nine months later, in the March 17, 2008 issue, they repeated the (already discredited) charges about Obama "in the traditional garb worn by the Muslim Luo tribe." The only problem is, tribal elders say they are not a Muslim tribe. The only thing the Globe did not claim, it seems, was that Obama was the "new cross-dressing Aunt Jemima."

"While Barack Hussein Obama [note the inflammatory emphasis on the middle name again] insists he's a Christian, his decision to wear Muslim garb during his African visit sparked controversy as the campaign heated up this year. But sources were already addressing that issue in our story last year.

"One source insisted, 'He was born of a Muslim father, raised by a Muslim stepfather, and received his early education at a Muslim school. That makes him a Muslim.'

"And a second source added, 'Obama's education began a lifelong relationship with Islam as a faith and Muslims as a community.'"

Aaah, yes, always another "source." It might surprise you that I also have a "source" who claims the Secret Service is concerned because of "intelligence traffic" that Muslim extremists regard Obama as an "apostate" because he "left Islam to become a Christian" and is marked for death.

The Globe went on to add even more dung to the undocumented heap:

"In that [May 2007] story, we detailed the extent of Obama's drug use, his skirt-chasing teen years, his Muslim ties, and discrepancies in his memoir Dreams of My Father.

"In the book, Obama boasts of using drugs and hanging with a tough crowd he calls the Choom Gang. Chooming is Hawaiian slang for smoking pot and taking other drugs.

" 'We did cocaine, LSD and pot,' said a former gang member. 'We made trouble, set some fires, and went joyriding in stolen cars - but we never got caught.'

"Incredulously, Obama - son of a black Kenyan and white woman from Kansas - blames his drug use on his struggle with his mixed-race heritage.

" 'Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed. The final fatal role of the young would-be black man.'

But a schoomate says the black-man angst felt by the guy he knew as 'Barry' is pure bunk, adding, 'There was no racism. Barry isn't remembering it right.'

"And now that he rubs shoulders with the Hollywood elite, Obama has no direct contact with his former best pal  Keith Kakugawa, who spent more than seven years in prison on cocaine and theft charges.

"We also reported the Illinois senator was slapped with stinging accusations he profited from a land deal with indicted Chicago wheeler-dealer Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, igniting an influence-peddling scandal."

By the way, on the facing page to the tail end of this Globe story is the headline:

Constitutional crisis as legal scholars charge
McCain Presidency would be illegal -
Republican candidate wasn't born in the U.S."

It's interesting how the Globe and The National Enquirer are both piling on only two of the three presidential candidates. Guess whose scandals they are ignoring? HRC!