So Obama first claimed he and his people did not know the guy who created the hillary'apple ad but that was not true. Nobody ahs called Obama and/or challenged him on that fact so far. As I suspected from begining, the ad creator must be associated with Obama's campaign.

Now he spoke of another bogus piece. As always, once a guy
like Obama gets out there on the trail and starts talking, he will show what kind of guy he is truely is. Obama has been getting positive press coverage so far.

About the Barack Obama story that he'd seen an article in Life Magazine that greatly distressed him and was a turning point in his life, and that this article, say historians, never existed--this is probably not as scandalous as it sounds.

For one thing, it could have been LOOK Magazine, instead. Both were oversized weeklies published at that time. For another, he was a child--only seven or eight years old, and glanced through the magazine while at the embassy where his mother worked in Indonesia, closing it when she came back into the room. It could have been any magazine.

The point should not be overlooked that the article dealt with an experimental treatment that a black man tried to see if it would turn his skin white--to disastrous results, which the photographs documented. The trauma for Obama was in realizing, for the first time, that dark skin might be something that someone would want to hide or wish away, something that had never occurred to him before and left him in great emotional turmoil as he struggled to reconcile racial identity and his place in it as he straddled both worlds.

It took me 2 minutes online to find a contemporary story about skin bleaching from Time Magazine from 1966. Is the searing part of the memory the magazine or the content of the story?

Time, Oct. 28, 1966: The Negro thus has to look inward and, in so doing, is slowly beginning to discover a long-submerged sense of pride. That sense is essential to remedying the lower-class Negro's other social and economic ills, since only pride can overcome the defeatist attitude that has contributed so much to his high rates of unemployment, illegitimacy, delinquency and crime. In Rochester, St. Louis and a dozen other cities, Negroes in the past two years have organized to clean up their neighborhoods, finance small businesses, pressure for school improvements and get police action to chase out the "white hunters," white men who crash the ghetto in search of black prostitutes. There is a trend among Negro coeds and career girls to wear their hair "natural" instead of attempting to unkink it by "conking"—rinsing it with lye and binding it with handkerchiefs. Yet for every Negro who flaunts his identity, a hundred try to camouflage it. Advertisements in the Negro magazines still hymn Nadinola skin bleach: "Lightens and brightens skin.

Is this the article? Who knows? But this 'gotcha' style of reporting on the most obscure points is moronic. The BBC reported today that the British Ministry of Defence recommened the Blair goverment not dispute the The Lancet/Johns Hopkins study that showed 655,000 excess deaths in Iraq due to the Iraq War because the methodology was 'tried and true' and 'robust'. Any following up on that story or is the nation's press going to break a scandal about a macaroni collage Obama claims to have constructed at age 8 that is, in fact, not made from gluing macaroni to a plate but rice.

The guy who did the Apple/HRC/1984 ad was an employee of a vendor with whom Obama's campaign had contracted for technical assistance in designing his website. The vendor had no policy role in the campaign, and according to the vendor the guy in question did not work directly on the Obama account. The vendor was located in Washington and the Obama campaign is based in Chicago. He was dismissed as soon as his identity was revealed and his very tangental connection to the campaign was discovered.

I don't mind people holding Obama to a high standard. If he doesn't live up to his own rhetoric he should be called on it. What I do mind is the Obama skeptics in the media or here on the net playing "gotcha" games and trying to turn every little thing into a major scandal. It is particularly reprehensible when people restate an allegation that has been thoroughly explained. Accountability is good, repeating discredited attacks is just slimey.

"We had no idea who did it, and that's what we said originally"
Obama as quoted by the AP.

There is no evidence that anyone in Obama's campaign knew who had created the ad, let alone that anyone in the campaign had directed the making of the ad. Appearantly one of Obama's press people was aquinted with the guy, but that doesn't mean that the Obama staffer knew his aquaintence had made the ad.

Look, your previous posts have made it abundantly clear that you do not like Obama, and you think it would be a mistake for the party to nominate an African-American candidate. You are entitled to your opinion, but don't try to claim that your reason for disliking him is about some percieved lack of integrity. Trumping up bogus charges and repeating Repub attack memes is what lacks integrity.

I suspect Hillary's campaign will be denying they know anything about you soon JS. Jeeebus you'd think that silly ad sank Hillary's campaign by the way you're talking.

The fact that Obama had 17 parking tickets at Harvard is a much bigger scandal. It'll probably cost him the votes of 2, maybe 3 meter maids.

Thanks for doing the logical thing. Right on target.

Any following up on that story or is the nation's press going to break a scandal about a macaroni collage Obama claims to have constructed at age 8 that is, in fact, not made from gluing macaroni to a plate but rice.

I'd say it's going to be a tie between macaroni-gate and parking-gate.

Thanks for the laugh.

I can only imagine the hysteria that would be going on here if this story was about anyone named Clinton instead of Obama. Having said that, why would anybody consider this news?

The article only mentions that they researched Life Magazine.

I did some searching online and there is a lot of discussion of skin bleaching in political speechs from the era that Obama references so he may just have the magazine wrong - it could be Look, Time, Ebony, Jet, etc.

So Obama first claimed he and his people did not know the guy who created the hillary'apple ad but that was not true. Nobody ahs called Obama and/or challenged him on that fact so far.

So, what is this  slimming now,...death by a thousand little cuts?

If you mean that there would be hysteria 'here" on this website, I don't think you are being fair. This kind of thing, had it happened to Hillary, would have been "news" on the Limbaugh show back in 1993, but Hillary has been embroiled in so many other messes that something like this just would not rate at all in the MSM if it broke today. And I don't think it would rate here either. Here, for example, you won't find a single person pointing out that Hillary once claimed, in explaining the unusual spelling of her name, to have been named after Edmund Hillary (of Mt Everest fame), but he was not known until a couple of years after she was born. Thats because we know it's no big deal: her parents probably told her when she asked why people spelled her name in that manner that she should be proud of it because of Edmund Hillary. Obama may have seen an old Look magazine, or maybe not a magazine at all but a book or newspaper article. He was nine and wasn't keeping a diary! Richard Cohen nicely pointed out the other day that we can have vivid memories from many years ago that are wrong in their details but that are not lies but errors and are still part of one's emotional truth.