Lawrence Wayne Sinclair born September 26 , 1961 also Larry Sinclair his name was legally changed to LaRye A . Silvas , and LaRye Vizcarra Avila and then back to his birth name , is a convicted felon for crimes of forgery , bad checks and theft by check . He is also a homosexual from Duluth , Minnesota who claims in a YouTube video he had consensual sex with Barack Obama while the then state senator from Illinois smoked crack cocaine . The YouTube video has been seen by 900 , 000 viewers but the mainstream media has largely ignored the story . In February 2008 , Larry Sinclair failed a lie detector test relating to questions about Obama , drugs and sexwump wooomp <| sep |> Pretty sure if you take 2 months off you can ' t keep their health insurance . There is a limit to how much time off you can take before you ' re ineligible to get insurance through them . Also , instead of taking 2 months off to go snowboarding why not just take a job in a hospital in Montana or Colorado ? Get a 12 hour shift gig and that gives you 4 days a week off .