360 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographyended when Young was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds just before Christmas 2007.
Sinclair’s third demand for clarification touches communications from Obama, Axelrod, and
campaign manager David Plouffe to Whitehouse.com in January and February 2008. Sinclair’s
fourth point regards possible payments by Obama, Obama’s campaign, Axelrod, Plouffe, and
Axelrod’s AKP Message and Media to Whitehouse.com in that same time frame of January-
February 2008.
OBAMA MUST ANSWER, NOT EVADE
It was up to Obama to answer these charges. It was imperative that this be done promptly,
without further delay, before the Democratic Convention. No responsible citizen wants a president
who can be blackmailed and thus turned into a puppet because he is hiding secrets about bisexual
activities, crack cocaine, political murder, and character assassination campaigns. It was also up to
the great news organizations, including ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and the
Washington Post, to carry out their responsibility to the public. These news organizations could not
play the role of kept courtesans of those in political power. As Sinclair pointed out, he had told his
story and had thus done everything he could. It was up to the great media concerns to locate and
interview the limo driver Paramjit Multani, to investigate the relevant telephone records, and above
all to question Obama himself about this very serious matter. It was not the role of the corporate
media to sit back and sniff about whether Sinclair had conclusively proven his own case to their
satisfaction or not; the proving or disproving is the responsibility of the media, and let them make
damn sure that they get it right.
By today’s journalistic standards, Sinclair’s allegations were extraordinarily substantive already,
especially when compared with some other major scandal allegations heard during the primaries.
Sinclair had filed a federal civil suit against Obama and Axelrod, complete with sworn affidavits
and court papers. This meant that he was willingly risking rule 11 penalties for filing a frivolous
lawsuit. He had also made statements to the Chicago police about his contacts with murder victim
Donald Young. These steps represented a very high degree of public commitment by Sinclair to the
truth of what he is saying. Compare this to the shoddy standards of the New York Times which, on
February 21, 2008 published and prominently displayed on its front page an innuendo about a
supposed sex affair between Senator McCain and a certain Vicki Iseman, a Washington lobbyist.
Not one single solitary named source was cited to support this innuendo. Or, take the case of Vanity
Fair magazine, the house organ of decadent left liberalism, which included a slander piece against
President Clinton entitled “The Comeback Id” by Todd Purdum in its July 2008 issue. Here again,
there was not one single named source who was willing to have his or her name publicly associated
with Purdum’s sleazy allegations. It was painfully obvious that there is one set of journalistic
standards for the Perfect Master Obama, and another and much laxer set for the competition. This
was intolerable.
NO SECRETS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO ACCESS THE NUCLEAR BUTTON
It is fair to say that the idea of a private sphere for US presidential candidates about which the
general public is not entitled to know anything became obsolete at the same time that
intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads became available around 1960 to 1965.
Since then, every presidential candidate has in effect appeared before the public asking to get his or
her hands on the thermonuclear button that can start World War III. At this point, the notion of a
private sphere for presidential candidates becomes wholly untenable. In this day and age, we have