“What I find offensive is every time somebody says something about the campaign, you’re accused of being racist,” Geraldine Ferraro has said in response to the attacks on her by organizers for Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for president.

See her full response, including her critique of Obama’s chief adviser, David Axelrod, via FOX News below:

In other news, the Mississippi Democratic primary vote results on Tuesday evening are shaping up to be divided largely along racial lines, with the vast majority of blacks in the state voting for Obama — and the vast majority of whites for Clinton.

Earlier: Was Geraldine Ferraro Wrong?

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Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee in 1984, has told a California newspaper, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

And now the Obama campaign is calling on Sen. Hillary Clinton to fire Ferraro as a fundraiser.

“When you wink and nod at offensive statements you’re really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes,” David Axelrod, the top adviser to Obama, is quoted as saying.

The question remains: was Ferraro wrong?

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March 9, 2008

Senator Barack Obama
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Senator Barack Obama
230 S. Dearborn Street, Ste. 3900
Chicago, IL 60604

Mr. David Axelrod
AKP Message & Media
730 N. Franklin Street, Ste. 404
Chicago, IL 60610

RE: REQUEST FOR CELL PHONE AND EMAIL RECORDS

Dear Senator Obama and Mr. Axelrod:

I am submitting this written request asking that you and Mr. Axelrod authorize the release of the following:

1. Cell Phone numbers, service providers for all personal and official cell phones held by Senator Obama for the time period of November 3, 1999 thru November 8, 1999.

2. Cell phone numbers, service providers for all personal and campaign phones for Senator Obama, David Axelrod, David Plouffe from January 18, 2008 to current date or at the least through February 29, 2008.

3. All email communication both personal, campaign related and AKP Message & Media’s from January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008 for Senator Obama, David Axelrod and David Plouffe.

4. All payouts made from AKP Message & Media, Obama for America, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Senator Obama’s accounts for the period of January 18, 2008 through February 29, 2008.

This request is being made based on your statement that you intend to bring a new politics to America, a politics of openness, and accountability. The records being requested here can bring to light and/or put to rest claims made about your involvement with Dan Parisi of Whitehouse.com and the rigged polygraph arranged; can if you claim you never met me (as is exactly the claim made by your office directly to John Crewdson of the Chicago Tribune) show you to be lying or telling the truth by releasing your cell phone records etc…

It would seem to me that you would be more interested in getting this matter settled than your continued organized attacks on the Internet.

I respectfully request you respond to this request without delay. I strongly urge you to consider that you yourself can if these things are, as your staff continue to claim, untrue, then your agreeing to release these records should not be a difficult thing for you to do.

Sincerely,

Larry Sinclair

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March 2, 2008

Senator Barack Obama
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Senator Barack Obama
230 S. Dearborn Street, Ste. 3900
Chicago, IL 60604

Mr. David Axelrod
AKP Message & Media
730 N. Franklin Street, Ste. 404
Chicago, IL 60610

RE: Questions

Dear Senator Obama and Mr. Axelrod:

I am writing the two of you this letter because phone calls continue to be ignored. I feel it is only fair that I address the following questions to the two of you directly one last time.

1. Who is Ron Allen that claims to be with your presidential camp, who is alleged to claim that someone claiming to represent me called asking for $100,000, to keep me from coming forward about our (Obama and I) November 1999 encounter of sex and cocaine use?

2. How can the two of you stand in front of this country talking about bring people together at the same time you both have engaged your supporters in a massive internet smear against me where you are providing knowing false information to your paid bloggers for the purpose trying to keep the truth about you Mr. Obama from coming out?

3. How can you claim to be a uniter at the same time you are encouraging your supporters to threaten to blow my head off, to cut my throat and to set me on fire if I do not recent my statements?

4. How can either of you gentleman claim to be concerned about truth when you and Mr. Axelrod engaged in a payoff deal with Dan Parisi of Whitehouse.com to the tune of $750,000, to arrange a rigged polygraph?

5. Do you truly believe (that after you two have gone to the extent that you have to have me smeared on the internet with outright false statements) I will go away? Because if you do, I want to tell you right now that the only thing you have done by having my life repeatedly threatened, and by repeatedly providing out right false information for your supporters to post about me on the web, is to make certain that I will not go away and I will not rest until the truth about you both is across every headline around the world.

6. If you claim that neither of you have had nothing to do with the internet attacks and false statements, then prove, post it on your web site and denounce any such attacks. I know you will not because a great deal of the false information has come directly from Mr. Axelrod and his associates.

7. If you claim you had no involvement in the Whitehouse.com scam, then prove it. Publicly denounce Dan Parisi’s getting me to agree to his scam and then stopping payment on his check.

8. If you and Mr. Axelrod claim you had no involvement with Dan Parisi open up your accounts and the accounts of AKP and David Axelrod for review to prove it.

It needs to be made clear that I will not be threatened nor will I allow you to feed completely false information about me to your bloggers and then just fade away into the sunset. Let me make it clear that your attacks against me have only hardened my resolve to see that this story gets out and you are exposed for what both of you truly are.

Sincerely,

Larry Sinclair

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WhiteHouse.com entered into an agreement to pay Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims he used drugs and had a sexual encounter with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999, a certain amount of money before Sinclair agreed to take a polygraph for the site, but now the site has reneged on the deal. This new twist is revealed within an e-mail sent on Tuesday from WhiteHouse.com founder Dan Parisi to Sinclair, which refers to Big Head DC’s Monday interview with Sinclair.

“I saw this interview this morning and posted your response in regards to another polygraph test,” Parisi writes in the e-mail. “It shows that you are doing another polygraph with results in this afternoon in violation of our agreement. I have instructed bank to stop payment on the $20,000 check this morning. The $10,000 in checks going to the charities are not effected (sic) and will be paid.”

Sinclair has vowed to take legal action against Parisi, if the check is not honored. “No polygraph has been done and you changed the terms of the agreement on your own on 2-21-08 so your refusing to honor your payment sheds light on your intent,” Sinclair wrote in an e-mail to Parisi today. “You have no grounds to stop payment on what you think might happen when it has not happened.”

Several claims WhiteHouse.com has made regarding the posting of the Sinclair polygraph, which was administered by controversial polygraph expert Ed Gelb, have not been honored to date. For instance, videos were supposed to be posted showing the administration of the test, but the site now claims the “incident needs to be laid to rest,” and plans to post the videos have apparently been scrapped.

Parisi and others associated with his business have not yet returned multiple requests for comment.

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Big Head DC has conducted an exclusive interview with Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims he used drugs and had a sexual encounter with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999. We caught up with Sinclair just two days after the Web site WhiteHouse.com posted a statement indicating that Sinclair had been deceptive about his Obama claims during a polygraph test conducted by lie detector expert Ed Gelb. Sinclair, feeling the test’s administrator had been biased and that he couldn’t trust the people who arranged the test, decided to answer several of our questions about his complex situation:

Big Head DC: Do you think that Dan Parisi or anyone else who works for WhiteHouse.com is or has been employed by David Axelrod and/or other members of Sen. Obama’s campaign for president?

Larry Sinclair: I believe Dan Parisi and Robert Braddock were acting as agents of David Axelrod and the Obama camp in making the offer for me to take the polygraph. I believe this to be true as I received a tip via phone at 12:43 a.m. instructing me to find help in obtaining financial records from the Obama camp and Axelrod because an account and communications were accessed in which WH.com and Parisi were having a dispute with Axelrod over the payment of the remaining part of $750,000 to get a polygraph stating I was lying posted fast enough.

BHDC: What do you make of the “deception” finding from WhiteHouse.com’s polygraph conducted by Ed Gelb?

LS: I honestly believe that these results and the claims by Gelb are false, I believe he knowingly accepted money to provide WH.com with the desired results. This is based on the request upon arrival by Gelb’s office for payment of an additional amount that I personally heard a receptionist tell Parisi that Gelb said there was an extra charge and Parisi acknowledged he was advised. I believe this based on all the whispering done while I was present and the amount of time the three spent in closed door discussions before, during and after the exam.

BHDC: There have been several claims that Gelb is not a real PhD — did he present himself as one to you? Did he seem professional?

LS: Gelb did in fact represent himself to me as having a PhD that I found out after returning home was in fact not the case. He did appear somewhat professional with a constant shaking, however he did not control anything about the process and in fact was taking his direction from Robert Braddock of WH.com and Dan Parisi.

BHDC: How did Parisi act toward you throughout the polygraph process?

LS: Parisi did not even look me in the face from the time I met him that Friday morning through the entire visit. He continued to look down toward the floor every time I spoke to him or he was in my presence. He did not at any time produce any ID for me to verify he was who he claimed to be. Not even when he wrote out the checks and I asked for ID, he laughed and said, “I am me.” Mr. Parisi and his assistant Robert Braddock were rude and attitude changed considerably after the exam was done. They met behind closed doors for another hour or so with Gelb.

BHDC: What do you make of all of the false information that is being passed around on the Internet about you?

LS: I find it appalling that most of it is being paid for by Axelrod and the Obama camp by use of paid bloggers who are being fed information that Axelrod and Obama know to be false, know not to be me — but know that these kids will sit up and post it as fact and they (Axelrod and Obama) will not have to answer for it. But I say they will.

BHDC: Would you have come forward with your claims had you known what has happened would happen?

LS: I had put out everything about my past from the start, so I did not worry about what they tried to say about me. I will get vindication against all the knowingly false claims made when this is over because slander and libel is easy to prove when they keep repeating it after being told to retract it.

BHDC: Do you stand by your claims about Barack Obama 100 percent, given the polygraph results?

LS: 1,000 percent, and I have stated from day one, polygraph or not, I will not recant or back down because I am stating truthful claims.

BHDC: Some people will say Big Head DC is biased for even interviewing you. What should we say to those people?

LS: What is biased about trying to get to the truth? The bias is on those media outlets who see the false claims made against a U.S. citizen by a candidate for the president of the U.S., and they still do not report anything. The media knows these attacks against me and the claims made in these attacks are false but they ignore it.

BHDC: What do you make of Obama’s increasing popularity?

LS: Does the phrase “snake oil sales man” give you a hint?

BHDC: Do you think Obama has been well enough vetted on the national political stage?

LS: Obama is not even close to being vetted; everyone says I am a kook, well I am not a kook, and I expect that I am not going to be standing here alone much longer. I expect we will see others come forward before this is over.

BHDC: Have you recently spoken to the limo driver you say was with you and Obama in 1999? What does he think about what you’ve been put through? Has it discouraged him from coming forward?

LS: I placed a call to him Saturday that was not returned. I had spoken with him last week, and he thinks I am crazy for going through this over a lying fraud like Barack Obama and David Axelrod. I truly believe he will come forward, and he knows I am not going to back down.

BHDC: Who is your lawyer in the lawsuit against Obama?

LS: The suit will be dismissed, it will be re-filed. It is being dismissed for failing to state a claim in which entitles me to relief, not because as claimed by others I am not credible. I am attaching a copy for your verification of this statement. WH.com leaked that I was in talks with Gloria Allred to discourage her, which they accomplished.

BHDC: Have you heard from anyone in the Obama campaign since you came forward with your claims?

LS: I have not. I received an e-mail via YouTube asking me to confirm or deny claims made by some Ron Allen of the Obama camp, which I stated were false. I will attach. I will forward copy to you.

BHDC: When did you first realize that Obama was a U.S. Senator?

LS: I became aware he was a politician during watching the 2004 DNC speech while residing in Mexico.

BHDC: How is your health? Are you afraid that this publicity is harmful to your health?

LS: I have some very serious heath problems, which I deal with according to decisions that I made. I do not use my health as an excuse for anything. I live alone, I care for myself, I do not reside in any assisted living complex, nor do I receive an assistant in my daily life.

BHDC: What are you going to do next regarding this whole situation?

LS: I will continue to put my story out there. I am getting some assistance in amending the lawsuit for refiling, and please note, it has not yet been dismissed, nor has the recommendation to dismiss been received or written as claimed by the judge identified on the Web. I am not going away, I am not recanting anything, and I am fighting on, especially with the tip I received this date. I will do a polygraph arranged by me, video tape it non-edited and with the findings released before stopping the camera and will post it before Tuesday if all goes well.

Earlier: A BHDC Greatest Hit: Interview With the “DC Madam”

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Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who has accused Sen. Barack Obama of illicit drug use and of having a sexual encounter with him in 1999, has been deceitful, according to results of a polygraph released on Sunday.

The polygraph was performed by Ed Gelb, a world-renowned expert in this arena, and is being examined by a second polygraph expert. Sinclair has already passed a drug test that proves he was not using any substances that could have affected the outcome of the polygraph.

“There were two polygraph tests administered by Dr. Gelb on Friday, the first polygraph asked Mr. Sinclair on his sex claims,” according to WhiteHouse.com, the site that paid for the test and oversaw its administration. “The second polygraph test asked Mr. Sinclair on the drug use claims. There was deception indicated in both tests.”

With such high stakes riding on the outcome, some have questioned whether polygraph results can be trusted. Many respected polygraph experts, however, say that lie detector tests are up to 95 percent accurate and polygraph results are admissible in several states. Polygraphs are also used by the U.S. government in carrying out certain security clearance procedures, as well as in determining parole for some criminals.

Others have questioned the motives of WhiteHouse.com, suggesting that the site’s owner may have sinister political goals. Dan Parisi, the owner, has adamantly maintained in statements on the site and in private conversations that this investigation has not been politically motivated.

WhiteHouse.com originally offered $100,000 to Sinclair if he took the test and the results were positive. Sinclair later agreed to a $10,000 payment and is in the process of donating the money to charities. Sinclair claims he did not come forward with the story for financial gain.

The mainstream media to date has been slow to cover the Sinclair allegations, although several respected journalists from newspapers including The New York Times are believed to be investigating. FOX News personality Bill O’Reilly, without mentioning Sinclair’s name, has hinted about possibly covering the story at a later date, and the Globe tabloid has already featured an interview with Sinclair.

Sinclair’s story first came to national attention via a video he posted on YouTube in January, but he has been making the claims in private for several months — and, possibly, for several years. Sinclair recently said in an online interview that he hadn’t revealed the story in a wide-scale manner previously because Obama had not been Sinclair’s own state or national senator. Now that Obama has the opportunity to be president of the United States, Sinclair says he believes that all American citizens should know about the alleged encounter as they make their voting decisions.

On February 11, Sinclair filed a lawsuit in a Minnesota U.S. District Court claiming that Obama, as well as his campaign adviser David Axelrod and others in the Democratic National Committee have been working behind the scenes to defame Sinclair’s reputation. A blogger posting on the official Obama campaign Web site and other Obama supporters have claimed that Sinclair is mentally ill.

Other Obama supporters have maintained that Sen. Hillary Clinton is somehow behind Sinclair’s accusations. Sinclair adamantly denies this claim, and supporters close to the Clinton camp have told Big Head DC that the campaign is in no way affiliated with Sinclair and that he has made these claims on his own.

Obama has not denied the accusations to date, nor has the campaign responded to Sinclair’s lawsuit.

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Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who is suing Sen. Barack Obama for issues stemming from Sinclair’s accusations that he did drugs and had a sexual encounter with Obama in the late-1990s, has agreed to take a polygraph test in an effort to prove his allegations.

The mainstream media has largely ignored the story to date, but an acquaintance of the infamous Robert Novak insisted to Big Head DC on Monday that a November column penned by Novak was referring to the Sinclair allegations.

Sinclair has maintained since at least last fall that he used cocaine with Obama and performed a sex act on him in 1999. Sinclair has thus far released several YouTube videos to back up his claims.

Big Head DC has learned that the results of the polygraph are expected to be released before the March 4 primaries.

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Big Head DC can confirm that the Web site WhiteHouse.com is offering a legitimate $100,000 to Larry Sinclair, the man who has accused Barack Obama in a lawsuit of doing cocaine and performing a sex act with him in 1999, in exchange for taking a polygraph.

The owner of the political site, Daniel Parisi, is a multi-millionaire and wants the truth to be known. The site is also offering $10,000 plus the cost of airfare and hotel bills to Sinclair up front for taking the test — with the promise of the larger reward, if he passes. An offer letter has already been mailed to Sinclair, according to the site.

Details of the offer are online here.

Earlier: Larry Sinclair Claims New Obama Drug & Sex Scandal

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Earlier: Larry Sinclair v. Barack Obama

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