[StBernard] Who started the Cain Mutiny?

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David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior
by Ann Coulter (more by this author)
Posted 11/09/2011 ET
Updated 11/09/2011 ET

Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country --
Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never
in Chicago.

So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain
emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David
Axelrod.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David
Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's
chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as
being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the
National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely
enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only
period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a
sexual predator.

After O'Grady's name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance
of Cain's personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of
any involvement in producing them -- by vigorously denying that she knew
Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified,
anonymous accusations against Cain, we've suddenly got very specific sexual
assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of ... Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod!
And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest
accuser, Sharon Bialek.

Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why
anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of
hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was
constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy
twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building
at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New
York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."

Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she's Obama's next Cabinet pick.

The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a
history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual
misconduct against them.

John Brooks, Chicago's former fire commissioner, filed a lawsuit against
Daley six months ago claiming Daley threatened to smear him with sexual
harassment accusations if Brooks didn't resign. He resigned -- and the
sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false.

Meanwhile, as extensively detailed in my book Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and
Their Assault on America, the only reason Obama became a U.S. senator --
allowing him to run for president -- is that David Axelrod pulled sealed
divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama's Democratic primary
opponent, and then against Obama's Republican opponent.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was
way down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire
securities trader.

But then The Chicago Tribune -- where Axelrod used to work -- began
publishing claims that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an
order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.


>From then until Election Day, Hull was embroiled in fighting the allegation

that he was a "wife beater." He and his ex-wife eventually agreed to release
their sealed divorce records. His first ex-wife, daughters and nanny
defended him at a press conference, swearing he was never violent. During a
Democratic debate, Hull was forced to explain that his wife kicked him and
he had merely kicked her back.

Hull's substantial lead just a month before the primary collapsed with the
nonstop media attention to his divorce records. Obama sailed to the front of
the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the
vote.

Luckily for Axelrod, Obama's opponent in the general election had also been
divorced.

The Republican nominee was Jack Ryan, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard
law and business schools, who had left his lucrative partnership at Goldman
Sachs to teach at an inner-city school on the South Side of Chicago.

But in a child custody dispute some years earlier, Ryan's ex-wife, Hollywood
sex kitten Jeri Lynn Ryan, had alleged that, while the couple was married,
Jack had taken her to swingers clubs in Paris and New York.

Jack Ryan adamantly denied the allegations. In the interest of protecting
their son, he also requested that the records be put permanently under seal.

Axelrod's courthouse moles obtained the "sealed" records and, in no time,
they were in the hands of every political operative in Chicago. Knowing
perfectly well what was in the records, Chicago Tribune attorneys flew to
California and requested that the court officially "unseal" them -- over the
objections of both Jack and Jeri Ryan.

Your honor, who knows what could be in these records!

A California judge ordered them unsealed, which allowed newspapers to
publish the salacious allegations, and four days later, Ryan dropped out of
the race under pressure from idiot Republicans (who should be tracked down
and shot).

With a last-minute replacement of Alan Keyes as Obama's Republican opponent,
Obama was able to set an all-time record in an Illinois Senate election,
winning with a 43 percent margin.

And that's how Obama became a senator four years after losing a
congressional race to Bobby Rush. (In a disastrous turn of events, Rush was
not divorced.)

Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the Senate
with illicitly obtained, lurid allegations from their pasts.

In 2007, long after Obama was safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, The New
York Times reported: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on
Hull's sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama
camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story."

Some had suggested, the Times article continued, that Axelrod had "an even
more significant role -- that he leaked the initial story."

This time, Obama's little helpers have not only thrown a bomb into the
Republican primary, but are hoping to destroy the man who deprives the
Democrats of their only argument in 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a
racist.