[Vision2020] You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer

[No Weatherman]

Paul:

I think you missed the point that the NYT did a hit job on Cindy
McCain's bout with drug abuse while they completely ignored the
unknown years of Barack Obama's life, like his drug abuse.

One would think that the vetting that is good for the candidate's wife
is good for the candidate.

Oh.

I forgot.

Only racists ask hard questions about Obama.



On 10/18/08, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Let me be the first to state that I don't care about the personal life of
> the First Lady (or the First Gentleman, for that matter).  Whether it's
> Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama, I don't care.  I don't even care whether or
> not the President is married.
>
>  Like I told Gary a while back, I'm not looking for a Jesus to be President.
>  It's a job, not a religious posting.
>
>  Paul
>
>  No Weatherman wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Mr. Keller:
> >
> > I represent Cindy McCain. I write to appeal to your sense of fairness,
> > balance and decency in deciding whether to publish another story about
> > her. I do this well knowing your obvious bias for Barack Obama and
> > your obvious bias hostility to John McCain. I ask you to put your
> > biases and agendas aside.
> >
> > I understand that Cindy is in the public eye, but you have already
> > profiled her extensively (Jennifer Steinhauer reported), written about
> > her financial situation (including an editorial on her tax returns)
> > and about her role at Hensley and Company.
> >
> > I am advised that you assigned two of your top investigative reporters
> > who have spent an extensive amount of time in Arizona and around the
> > country investigating Cindy's life including her charity, her
> > addiction and her marriage to Senator McCain. None of these subjects
> > are news.
> >
> > I am also advised that your reporters are speaking to Tom Gosinski and
> > her cousin Jamie Clark, neither of whom are reliable or credible
> > sources. Mr. Gosinski has been publicly exposed as a liar and
> > blackmailer on the subject of Cindy McCain. Jamie Clark has very
> > serious drug and stability issues and has failed in a number of
> > attempts to blackmail Cindy. She is simply not credible.
> >
> > In 1994, Mr. Gosinski drafted a civil complaint for damages claiming,
> > among other things, that Cindy had defamed him with prospective
> > employers after he was discharged from AVMT. Those allegations were
> > utterly false. He was unable to produce any prospective employers and
> > Cindy had not discussed his deficiencies as an employee with anyone
> > outside of AVMT. Indeed, his termination was demonstrated to be
> > appropriate and when he was let go, Cindy gave him severance pay. When
> > confronted with this evidence, his lawyer resigned. Gosinski never
> > filed the complaint in Court and could produce no evidence to support
> > any of its allegations. He attempted to have Cindy pay him $250,000 in
> > exchange for not filing the complaint. Cindy refused and made his
> > attempt to extort her public.
> >
> > Thereafter, he amended his complaint to allege that Cindy asked him to
> > commit perjury in the adoption proceed involving Bridget McCain. The
> > notes of Cindy's counsel and the official transcript of the adoption
> > proceedings clearly demonstrate that Gosinski's was never asked to lie
> > and did not falsely testify in the proceeding. His allegation was an
> > utter fabrication. Gosinski further alleged that Cindy used his name
> > to obtain pain killers for her own personal use. The records of AVMT
> > show that Dr. Max Johnson, licensed by the DEA to order drugs,
> > directed the use of employee names on the prescriptions. The drugs
> > obtained using Mr. Gosinski's name were used and donated on an AVMT
> > trip to El Salvador. They were not used by Cindy.
> >
> > These allegations and efforts to hurt Cindy have been a matter of
> > public record for sixteen years. Cindy has been quite open and frank
> > about her issues for all these years. Any further attempts to harass
> > and injure her based on the information from Gosinski and Clark will
> > be met with an appropriate response. While she may be in the public
> > eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse
> > and defame.
> >
> > It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative
> > assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack
> > Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My
> > Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and
> > determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a
> > terrific lack of balance here.
> >
> > I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy
> > of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit
> > pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would
> > investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always
> > preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political
> > campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here.
> >
> > I ask you to let Cindy McCain carry on in her usual understated,
> > selfless and dignified way. The fabrications and lies of blackmailers
> > are not fit to print in any newspaper but particularly not in The New
> > York Times.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > John M. Dowd
> > Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
> >
> http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/18/you-have-not-tried-to-find-barack-obamas-drug-dealer/#comment-2506254
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