Wow, I can’t believe I’m actually hoping that a Huffington Post piece is correct!

At Huffpo today, Earl Ofari Hutchinson says that the recent charges against Obama may not keep him from getting elected, but will dog his administration (emphasis mine):

The much vaunted October surprise turned out to be not one surprise but a succession of surprises. And they all seemed to go bust. Let’s tick them off. Obama allegedly broke bread with a Palestinian terrorist and in the process nodded and even spewed anti-Israel, pro Palestinian utterances. Obama’s campaign operated as a money laundering front. That is the campaign got stacks of cash from illegal, foreign, and even deceased donors all by gerrymandering the required internet verification screening mechanisms.

Obama praised his infamous, alleged race baiting former pastor Jeremiah Wright as the best the black church has to offer. Obama insisted that the courts didn’t go far enough during the civil rights era and should have redistributed the wealth to the black poor. Then there’s his Kenyan side aunt who’s been living for years in the U.S. illegally and in poverty supposedly with his full knowledge. So the multi count indictment against Obama reads like this. He is an anti-Israel (and closet anti-Semitic) PLO fellow traveler, who washes illegal money, is a stealth race baiter, who wants to mug the rich, and harbors illegal aliens. If one, or more of these charges were true it wouldn’t just dump Obama’s campaign. It would dump him in a jail cell. The temptation is to howl so hard with laughter at the pathetic absurdity of the charges that tears well up. The charges are, of course, overblown, twisted, and obviously an 11th hour last gasp at muckraking. They have predictably gained no legs in the MSM, and have come way to late in the game to change anything for McCain or against Obama . Yet there’s just enough bare fact, distorted and politically connived as they, are in the charges that they are steady grist for the internet Obama rumor, gossip and hit mill.

The real danger is that though the October surprises fizzled into non-surprises in October they could morph into real torments for an Obama White House in November and beyond.

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As for Obama; he will be the most watched president in American history, a wrong sneeze, sniffle or cough will draw criticism. The October surprises that didn’t happen in October will be just one more thing to fuel that criticism. Don’t write the epitaph just yet for them.

First, if there’s any proposition that should make you laugh until your eyes tear up, it’s the notion that anything negative in Obama’s past would be even highlighted, yet alone aggressively investigated, by the MSM.

Second, I don’t want Obama or any president dogged throughout his (or her) term by bullshit allegations. But the ones Hutchinson mentions all have supporting evidence, at least enough to warrant a little further investigation. So I hope these do dog him.