Obama once took candy from stranger, reports say
by
Nate Mecredi
The Bubble News Service
The National Times is reporting that as an eight-year old boy, presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)was seen accepting a piece of candy from a "total stranger."
The witness to the incident, who spoke only on condition of receiving a free 6-month subscription to the newspaper, observed the transaction from his car near an elementary school playground where the witness says he "often parked to observe the youngsters at play."
The report of candy-taking comes on the heels of a recent Slate.com story revealing that Obama got a good deal on a real estate transaction, the results - so the reports suggest - of collusion with a known Democratic fundraiser, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, currently under grand jury investigation for raising funds for Democrats.
"This is another blow to Obama's fledgling presidential campaign," said former Republican Congressman Tom Delay, who answered reporters' questions from a courtroom he was appearing in that was near where the Rezko grand jury investigation was occurring. "What political favor did that stranger expect to get in return from Obama for that candy is what I think the American People are entitled to know."
The Times said it was also looking into reports that Obama had once swapped his lunch consisting of a bologna sandwich and a cup of lime Jell-O with a 6th grade classmate in exchange for the classmate's ham and turkey club on focacia bread with Dijonais mayonnaise, and that also included chips and a deli pickle. The Times said any politician involved in an exchange that results in a benefit for that politician has to be "viewed with suspicion."
In response to earlier queries from reporters on the Times staff, Obama has allegedly admitted to receiving "0% financing" from a "known Chicagoland car dealership" and a buy-one, get-one free "sweetheart deal" on two packages of Ballpark Franks from a Southside Chicago Kroger's.
Obama's mother, however, denies Obama took candy from a "stranger,"
"Unless by 'stranger' you mean his uncle Mojambo, I don't think the Times story is accurate," said Obama's mother during a call-in radio program. "He was given the candy by his uncle for being a good boy and eating all his bologna sandwich and his lime Jell-O for lunch that day. Why didn't the Times just call me?"
In an unrelated story, the Times is also reporting a witness observing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D- NY) stuffing empty O.Henry candy bar wrappers into a paper shredder in her Washington Senatorial office this past week.
by
Nate Mecredi
The Bubble News Service
The National Times is reporting that as an eight-year old boy, presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)was seen accepting a piece of candy from a "total stranger."
The witness to the incident, who spoke only on condition of receiving a free 6-month subscription to the newspaper, observed the transaction from his car near an elementary school playground where the witness says he "often parked to observe the youngsters at play."
The report of candy-taking comes on the heels of a recent Slate.com story revealing that Obama got a good deal on a real estate transaction, the results - so the reports suggest - of collusion with a known Democratic fundraiser, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, currently under grand jury investigation for raising funds for Democrats.
"This is another blow to Obama's fledgling presidential campaign," said former Republican Congressman Tom Delay, who answered reporters' questions from a courtroom he was appearing in that was near where the Rezko grand jury investigation was occurring. "What political favor did that stranger expect to get in return from Obama for that candy is what I think the American People are entitled to know."
The Times said it was also looking into reports that Obama had once swapped his lunch consisting of a bologna sandwich and a cup of lime Jell-O with a 6th grade classmate in exchange for the classmate's ham and turkey club on focacia bread with Dijonais mayonnaise, and that also included chips and a deli pickle. The Times said any politician involved in an exchange that results in a benefit for that politician has to be "viewed with suspicion."
In response to earlier queries from reporters on the Times staff, Obama has allegedly admitted to receiving "0% financing" from a "known Chicagoland car dealership" and a buy-one, get-one free "sweetheart deal" on two packages of Ballpark Franks from a Southside Chicago Kroger's.
Obama's mother, however, denies Obama took candy from a "stranger,"
"Unless by 'stranger' you mean his uncle Mojambo, I don't think the Times story is accurate," said Obama's mother during a call-in radio program. "He was given the candy by his uncle for being a good boy and eating all his bologna sandwich and his lime Jell-O for lunch that day. Why didn't the Times just call me?"
In an unrelated story, the Times is also reporting a witness observing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D- NY) stuffing empty O.Henry candy bar wrappers into a paper shredder in her Washington Senatorial office this past week.
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