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The National Enquirer, which correctly reported on the affair between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, is now reporting that Obama had an affair with Vera Baker during the presidential campaign.  Given the source of this news, one would be wise to view this with caution, but National Enquirer turned out to be completely correct about John Edwards whilst MSM chose to ignore that story completely.

There were indications of the affair quite early in the campaign and UK Daily Mail did report on this in 2008.  National Enquirer in the first report claimed to have a video tape from the hotel surveillance camera but there are rumours that they have since then retracted this assertion.

Your correspondents does find this news surprising given this.

We never believed Obama had an affair with a woman, because Obama does not appear to like women.

As American Standard recently wondered, there are no former girlfriends, either on the scene or noted in any of the books William Ayers or Jon Favreau wrote for Obama.  No high school girlfriends.  No college sweethearts.  But, there sure are plenty of men he’s spent an odd amount of time with.

Baker was a red herring in the campaign — but it was strange she disappeared to Martinique.  We have no idea what she was doing down there, but she’s one of the top fundraisers for black political candidates in the world.  She’s smart, she’s the best there is in her field, and she’s actually a very nice lady.

In the spring of 2009, one of us accidentally had lunch with Baker, at a little sandwich shop in Bronzeville called Munchie’s.  We were there to brainstorm fundraising and visibility ideas for a black candidate we like very much — and we had no idea who the woman sitting next to us was.  But, we shared a pot roast pizza with her, and at the end of the lunch meeting, everyone exchanged emails and she looked at ours, we looked at hers, and it was like that scene in Batman Returns where Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle were dancing and realized who each other really was.

“Oh, we need to talk,” is what Baker said.

And, so we did.

We are 100% convinced this wonderful young woman had no romantic relationship with Obama.

Because she is a woman, for one, but also because she’s happily married, and has a darling baby too.

If this is true then it is certainly out of character for Obama.  Stay tuned!