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One of the most entertaining side-shows in the three-ring circus that is the American Presidential election is that of Larry Sinclair. In case you’ve not been listening to right-wing talk radio, I’d forgive you for not knowing who Mr. Sinclair is – he’s the guy who claims that claims he took cocaine and had gay sex with Barack Obama and is demanding that the Presidential candidate address his allegations.

Normally the right-wing, fundamentalist Christian talk-radio circuit would be the very last forum that might give a voice to an openly gay drug user. These are the same people who blame “the gays” for 9/11, the New Orleans flood and the falling dollar: This is especially significant when you consider that Larry is a sort of stereotypical gay male: He acts and dresses camp and he speaks with a vaguely comical lisp in the way that only fictional gay villians allegedly speak – in short he’s the sort of person that right wing radio would find utterly objectionable, so why are the wingnuts so keen to give him the benefit of the doubt

Larry claims that a few years back he went ‘cruising’ in a limmo around the Senator’s home-town of Illinois, and just happened to have a casual hook up with a man who would later become a Senator and later-still become a Democratic Presidential candidate. If true, these allegations would hand the ‘wingers a weapon that could politcally destroy Senator Obama - after all the only thing that American conservatives hate more than a drug user is a gay drug user…

Unfortunately, Larry’s claims are flimsy and preposterous. His court case against Obama was immediately dismissed for for it’s frivolity and lack of evidence. When Whitehouse.org, an America news-blog offered to give Larry the chance to take a lie-detector test, he failed it twice. And since his torrent of allegations began he’s not actually presented a shred of evidence to back up his outrageous claims. Nevertheless, American right-wingers are noted for their tendancy to belive preposterous things for which no evidence exists. A few of them have grown rather fond of Larry’s claims and cannot get enough of hearing him dish the dirt on Obama, even if more sensible bloggers have debunked just about every claim Larry has ever made.