BREAKING: Obama Fathered a Black Child

The more I see Hillary Clinton's campaign following the example of Karl Rove, attacking her opponent's strengths with ridiculous allegations, the more I worry that she'll eventually land the kind of knockout punch that killed John McCain's chances in the 2000 Republican primaries.

Yes, I hate to say it, but I'm worried about these rumors that Barack Obama may have fathered a black child.

The year was 2000, and John McCain had won the New Hampshire and Michigan primaries.  He was poised to finish off George W. Bush in South Carolina.  And then the rumors started...

Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.

What if the rumors start again?

What if people start suggesting that Barrack Obama may have fathered a black child?

UPDATED:  Oh my God!  There are two of them!

UPDATE 2:  Because I can't spell worth a damn.

•  Tips

  for putting into words what we're  all worried about.

  /snark

  by William S Martin on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:17:58 PM PDT

  •  Cute! And I always tip cuteness. n/t :)

    by OutOfManyOne on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:30:43 PM PDT

    •  Thanks for this diary.

      It's helped me make up my mind. I'm going with Hillary, who's been thoroughly vetted, and seems to have no African American children. Even though her husband was "the first black president."

      by revbludge on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:37:02 PM PDT

      •  Surely not

        She lived with a man for many years and had his child!  And all she did was be his wife.  The hussy.  Not that Obama's any better.  This one time, he ate my cat.  That is, he did if I redefine the word 'my' to 'a', and the word 'cat' to 'cheese sandwich'.  Which I just did, so he is teh evil.

        And don't get me started on Gravel.  

        by TruthOfAngels on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:43:30 PM PDT

      •  None that we know of

        at least...

        by Cali Scribe on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:56:47 PM PDT

        •  She's been VETTED, dammit.

          Read my lips: No scandalous past, except that fling with Barry Goldwater.

          by revbludge on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:42 PM PDT

•  hehehehehehehehe (n/t)

  by Timothy Scriven on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:18:50 PM PDT

•  only one 'r' in Barack n/t

  by Prison4Bushco on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:19:48 PM PDT

  •  thanks

    goofy me, i can't spell

    by William S Martin on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:23:52 PM PDT

•  Why aren't they off fighting in Iraq

  protecting our freedoms?

  by chikindolfin on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:20:05 PM PDT

  •  I'd say it was because they were...

    ...serving their country campaigning for their father, but sources I have inside the Obama campaign tell me they are secretly being "educated" by day and in bed by "8:00 p.m."

    Make of it what you will...

    by Aqualad08 on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:30:10 PM PDT

    •  As long as he doesn't

      pimp them out. Bad enough that he has them, and openly acknowledges them. Shameless. I just have to wonder what his poor wife thinks of it all.

      by revbludge on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:32:36 PM PDT

•  That's all they've got on him.

  He's fathered two black children.
  But this diary is a joke, really, waste of electrons.  Just delete it, you could post it as a comment in an open thread.

  by object16 on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:20:24 PM PDT

  •  someone forgot their anti-cranky pill today!

    by PhantomFly on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:06:10 PM PDT

    •  Wow, I just got my TU status!!!

      wOOt!!! Go Obama Go, go, go, go!!!

      by object16 on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 07:53:33 PM PDT

•  yeah.

  by Seattlite on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:28:00 PM PDT

•  Credit Colbert. Then me for plagiarising Colbert

  And he probably got it from his speech writers.

  by jeff in nyc on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:29:01 PM PDT

•  And I heard he's involved with

  some gal named Hope, too.

  by revbludge on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:30:22 PM PDT

•  Ah, it was those aliens again....

  the some one's who arraigned the birth of Dale Gribel's kid on "King of the Hill"

  by arodb on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:33:09 PM PDT

•  Hey, it's the 21st Century

  I just don't see the problem with fathering black children in this day and time. Then again, some people think I'm a progressive.

  Barack? Never mind. A perfect waste of liberal understanding!

  by alasmoses on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:35:14 PM PDT

•  This diary is lightweight

  I can give you much greater revelations.  Watch for my future diaries:

  Hillary Clinton Fathered A Child By A Future President!

  Two Presidents Called George Bush?  No Coincidence, People!

  John McCain Is A Wanker And Nobody Likes Him!

  Without wishing to blow my own trumpet, I think my future in peddling hitherto unsuspected tabloid filth is assured.

  by TruthOfAngels on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:38:42 PM PDT

•  Just curious~Do these qualify as Rovian tactics ?

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

  http://thedemocraticdaily.com/...

  http://www.prospect.org/...

  http://www.talkleft.com/...

  http://changeintallahassee.blogspot....

  http://panicinyearzero.blogspot.com/...

  http://www.talkleft.com/...

  by PamelaD on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:42:31 PM PDT

  •  Not really. n/t

    by DC Pol Sci on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:13:10 PM PDT

    •  Why is that? Because there from Obama's

      campaign?  Perhaps then, Rovian doesn't apply to either candidate ~ or have you lost all powers of objectivity?

      by PamelaD on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 07:02:21 PM PDT

•  I shudder to think . . .

  What will happen when they find out he plays "basketball"?

  by egarratt on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:51:17 PM PDT

•  Would you be less likely to vote for Hillary...

  ... if you knew she was a cat person??

  (Anyone know if Socks is still around? It'd be cool if he got to be First Cat again.)

  by PhantomFly on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:09 PM PDT