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Anonymous:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/ ... story.html

September 06, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Sutton family retracts Obama story

Conservative bloggers have, understandably, spent some time in recent days chasing suggestive comments made by the former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton earlier this year.

Sutton had suggested in an interview that a former Black Panther and advisor to Saudi royals, Khalid al-Mansour, had played some previously unknown role in Obama's pre-political life.

I wrote about the story in detail here; Obama's camp, apparently puzzled and eager to put the story to rest, flatly denied his knowing al-Mansour, and details of Sutton's account appeared not to make sense.

After I wrote it, al-Mansour also called me back, and said he'd never met Obama, and had no idea where the story came from; his only hesitance in denying it, he said, had been in contradicting Sutton, "a dear friend, his health is not good."

This evening, a spokesman for Sutton's family, Kevin Wardally, e-mailed over a statement that (because there's absolutely no other evidence for the story, and much that contradicts it) seems to put the story to rest for good:

    The information Mr. Percy Sutton imparted on March 25 in a NY1 News interview regarding his connection to Barack Obama is inaccurate. As best as our family and the Chairman's closest friends can tell, Mr. Sutton, now 86 years of age, misspoke in describing certain details and events in that television interview.

    We regret this unfortunate incident and we ask good conscientious people to extend compassion and grace to Percy Sutton, a man who has served America in many capacities; an officer with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and as a public servant who was the first elected African-American Manhattan Borough President.

Froderik:

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--- Quote from: "BuzzKill" ---I just hope you don't live to see any real change.
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Nice.

Tell me, are you seriously wishing an early death on Obama supporters?
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Good Night Marie - No, not at all. I am surprised anyone would take it that way. But maybe I did express myself poorly. Maybe I should have said I hope We don't live to see any real change - to America and American's.  Change, I will remind you, can be very bad indeed. When I consider Obama's friends, and political supporters and those whom he supports, and when I consider what he has actually done in his life, I feel the change he promises will be of the most negative sort. I hope I am wrong.  Thats what I ment.
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Makes sense; it's just one of those "one could interpret the statement one way or the other, but ~this is how i actually meant it" sort of moments. I get those all the time.  ;D

Anonymous:
Who's Marie?

 ;D

Froderik:
She knew Donnie; she was a little bit country...

ps- i miss the old set of emoticons.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---She knew Donnie; she was a little bit country...
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I hear they have ties to a known religious cult.  :D


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You and me both!

'Cept I like this guy......
 :rasta:

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