Vera Baker, alleged mistress of the president

The National Enquirer cannot write grammatically, but it has been correct before about the scandalous love lives of prominent democrats (like John Edwards), so its contention that Barack Obama at some unspecified date spent the night at Washington, D.C.’s Hotel George with his 2004 Senate campaign Finance Director may possibly be true.

I don’t understand why the president would be staying at a Washington hotel overnight. He does actually have a residence elsewhere in that city. But the Hotel George is trendy and advertises itself as an eco-friendly, “green” boutique hotel with “a progressive approach to the well-being of our guests and planet” and is certainly just the kind of place Barack Obama would patronize.

Proof of a hot black mistress must be a little disappointing, I expect, to anyone who bought in to the gay sex and drugs rumors that swirled around Barack Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. (Those rumors came from a petty criminal named Larry Sinclair who was anything but a credible source.)

Even avowedly-liberal Bill Maher found Chris Matthews’ and Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Barack Obama’s acceptance speech unusual.

The coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him.

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If you believe Larry Sinclair, those guys have got a chance, too.

Rightwing blogs are generally ignoring it. Leftwing, pro-Obama blogs are dismissive. The best snarky response I’ve read is by Seth Colter Walls on HuffPo.

The event began less than auspiciously for Mr. Sinclair — who has gained Internet notoriety by spreading wild accusations regarding gay sex, drugs and possible murder committed by Barack Obama — as National Press Club staff took pains to remove the association’s logo from behind the podium where Sinclair was set to speak.

Hostile-to-Obama Larry Johnson isn’t climbing aboard the Sinclair circus train, but Larry did clearly feel that he had a duty to mankind to publish Mr. Sinclair’s statement and provide a 9:24 video excerpt.

An unsavory individual named Larry Sinclair posted a video on YouTube last January (which has been since removed), accusing Senator Barack Obama of illegal and indecent acts in the back of a limousine in November 1999 while a serving Illinois State Senator. Sinclair alleges that Obama did cocaine with him and also accepted oral sex from Sinclair.

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January 18, 2008 YouTube 1:42 video

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Sinclair is reported to have volunteered to take a polygraph test last year to confirm his veracity, and to have failed the test.

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Today, Larry Sinclair appeared at the National Press Club to repeat his story, presenting a journalistic quandary about whether to report another quite unsubstantiated rumor about Barack Obama.

Larry Sinclair web-site

Ben Smith (who won’t even mention the substance of the Sinclair allegations) exposes Larry Sinclair as a criminal and all-around low life.

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I had decided to give this one a miss, but coverage broke out widely today, after police arrived at the Press Club to arrest Larry Sinclair at the conclusion of his National Press Club news conference. Apparently, the arrest warrant was from Delaware.