Hillary Campaign Acknowledges County Chair Backing Hillary Passed Along Obama Muslim Smear Email

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/hillary_campaign_acknowledges_that_hillary_backer_passed_along_obama_madrassa_email.php

Hillary Campaign Acknowledges That County Chair Backing Hillary Passed Along Obama Muslim Smear Email
By Greg Sargent - December 5, 2007, 1:31PM

A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone calls, the Hillary crew has just acknowledged that an Iowa county chair volunteering for the campaign passed along the now-notorious email that smears Obama as a Muslim by repeating the false claim that he attended a madrassa as a child.

The Hillary campaign confirms that they are asking the county chair to step down from the campaign.

The charge was made by a Daily Kos diarist who identified himself as planning to "caucus" for Chris Dodd, suggesting that this happened in Iowa. In his diary he reported receiving the email:



In the comments section to the post, Hillary Internet guru Peter Daou passes along a statement from a top official at the Hillary campaign acknowledging that the email had in fact been sent by the Clinton county chair:



The Hillary campaign confirmed to me that the statement is genuine.

The identity of the "Clinton county chair" -- or, as the Hillary camp prefers it, "volunteer county coordinator" -- is not yet known.

More soon.

:rofl:

Fucking scumbags.

I can't wait until the primaries are over. THe way things are going, I am going to hate them all before all this shit is over.

. . .can you say you are surprised?

but you can't seem to resist.

. . .and I'm not going to be intimidated from pointing that out.

commonly used here. You should give it a rest because it's the middle initial of his middle name. Are you ashamed of the name Hussein? Is Obama ashamed of his middle name?

. . .if I raise the issue now we can prevent it from happening more often. Don't you find it strange that ONLY the supporters of other candidates use it? We know this is something the right wing will use so I hate to see DUers using it.

I'm not ashamed of his name and I doubt he is, so don't even frame it like that. The motivation in many using BHO is obvious and it will become more obvious when the right wing starts using it.

BTW look at post #5, sort of proves my point doesn't it?

or nefarious about using the man's middle intial when eliminating it results in BO. As has been explained, a few posters thought that would be considered more offensive.

????

If someone wants to get milage out of the name Hussein, they'll do it. That doesn't mean that everyone who uses Obama's middle initial is up to no good.

I'm done. Really. Think what you want.

Tee hee.

is right..don't ever get done!

repeatedly from them. and the people doing it are hardcore hillary supporters, so undercover has a point here.

:dunce:

I'm sure HillaryHub will crank this out soon if it hasn't already.

and a strong message from Doyle.

nice to see them do what any good Democratic campaign should do in this case.

that's a very decent thing to say BG.

She sounds sincere; that's all any of us should be looking for in this case. :thumbsup:

The official Clinton campaign reacted absolutely correctly to this incident and at this stage, based on what is known. that is all that can be expected of any campaign.

Is it possible that the Clinton campaign was secretly behind sending out that email rather than it just being the act of a local high ranking volunteer who supports Clinton? Sure. Is it possible that some guy down the street secretly is an axe murderer? Sure. While the former may be more likely than the latter, any evidence is all just supposition and projection right now.

Can anyone here or anywhere else rule out the possiblilty that some local Clinton zealot might do something inappropriate that the Clinton campaign would not approve of if asked in advance? Obviously we can't, nor could we about all persons operating on behalf of any of our candidates.

We have a quaint notion in America calle "Innocent until proven guilty". We should stop to consider why we are Democrats rather than Republicans.

and they have every incentive to avoid a repeat. From the sound of it, that is what they will be striving to do.

Acrimony aside, I'm comfortable this won't get out of hand because most rank-and-file Democrats are religious about fair play and decency, especially when it comes to discrimination. Look at our frontrunners; a woman and a black man. Books will be written about the Clinton/Obama race. We're making history, and most of it will be good.

Rethugs would be proud.

Disgusting.

I honestly expect better from you.

What an idiot that County Chair was...He wins the trifecta; evil, weak, and stupid...

Don't wag your finger at me, Tom. Quite frankly, I expected more from you too.

I have no problem with that. Talk about a pattern that you see that disturbs you. Invite us to speculate along with you about the validity of your observations; talk about what they might indicate, and what the implications might be, all fine and good.

But you flat out passed judgement here without any hard evidence to support it. Do you find fault with how the Clinton campaign responded to this incident? I doubt that is it. So you are calling the response a lie. At least be direct about it.

I realize Wes told you to vote for her so you are only doing your duty by defending her blindly, but keep turning a blind eye to the plethora of negativity surrounding her campaign to your own peril. Please.

. . .;)

:thumbsup:

. . .Bill Clinton and Wes Clark. The Big Dog and General Smackdown! Whomever the nominee is he or she better make sure they are involved.

. . .we are on different sides. . .for now. Once we have a nominee I will be glad we all are on the same team.

Hard to ascertain that here most days.

that I currently am a tepid Biden supporter over Hillary or any of our other candidates. Please don't pull that Robo think routine on me. And I can point you to posts I made here today and yesterday where I praised Biden and Kucinich on Iran while grouping Hillary in with the Democrats who have disappointed me on that issue. You are over reaching and jumping to conclusions about me here AK, I do not now nor have I ever blindly defended Hillary Clinton.

It is a perfectly valid point for discussion whether a politician with high negatives going negative is wise or not. Would you care to point out where I have been turning a blind eye to negativity surrounding the Clinton campaign, since you seem to be concerned for my peril?

I think you will find, at most, that I have turned a blind eye toward the plethora of negativity surrounding virtually all of this primary season. I have pretty much stayed away from attacking all of our candidates, and stayed out of all of the temporarily burning controversies over who is dissing who, expecting that come July all of these men and women will be doing a group hug on the Democratic Convention stage.

Get back to me when you've got a rationalization for that. I'm on the edge of my seat.

but you might be more comfortable if you sat back in your seat. You don't seem to have at all grasped what I wrote in the post you just replied to. All I did here was take a stand for innocent until proven guilty. I have not before nor will I now get caught up in all the charges and counter charges being made by any side in this phase of primary combat. I'll engage with you again after the primaries. I will be proud to support Obama if he is our nominee and I'll leave it at that.

She doesn't even realize that your post wasn't about Clinton or Obama.

I've noticed that you've been very fair and reasonable in your criticisms. Shame that these things are hard to discuss in an atmosphere poisoned by such acrimony

"catty"

That's a good thing, right?

Was McClurkin a reflection on Obama supporters and his candidacy?

we see it here every day

"It's called dirty politics in trying to manipulate the voteWhich we all know you are perfectly fine with and surely we don't expect you to understand what the word 'integrity' means."

What did I say to deserve that? :shrug:

The email is bullshit and I am glad the campaign kicked the guy out.

. . .I guess whats good for the goose is good for the gander. It seems we want things to be a certain way when they benefit our chosen candidate and another way when they don't. HMMMMMMMM

This guy is being treated like the plague.

But that has also been stretched beyond recognition and beaten like a dead horse here.

I didn't think McClurkin was a reflection on Obama's campaign any more than as a political calculation (support generated vs fervor against).

But to say an email from a county chair who has since been dismissed is reflective of the Clinton campaign is below the belt.

I could see it being kind of a funny last bit to add to their list.

But Obama has been able to turn it around and make Hillary look silly.

. . .in post 36 you tried to protect the Clinton campaign by implying that this guys views did not represent the Clinton campaign anymore than McClurkin's views represented the Obama campaign but now you are using McClurkin to attack the Obama campaign. . .oh boy.

Don't tarnish everybody for the few bad apples that show up in every campaign.

After Hillary staffers walked up to a student and asked her to
ask a "planted question", and this tactic was revealed--Hillary
denied knowing anything about this. Then another student, at
a different event in a different Iowa city, came forward to say
that the Clinton campaign did the same thing to her. They
approached her with a notebook full of questions and asked her
to ask a specific question and Hillary would call on her.

Now, we find out that this horrible Obama email is being circulated
by those in the Hillary campaign. The only reason we even found out
about this happening, is because someone told. How long had this
malarkey been going on?

Once again, I'm glad that the people in my state have the good sense
to be tattle tales. Otherwise, we'd never know who is rotten to the
core.

Hillary is a liar. Her dirty-tricks bag is full to the brim, but of
course she'll deny any of it.

Should we be surprised that someone who would plant questions and lie
about Obama (like when her campaign accused Obama of busing in Illinois
residents to caucus for him!) will also deny her wrongdoing?

Watch Hillary's polls drop even more.

certainly makes one wonder if they aren't trying to use the radical madrassa myth to demonize obama. (and the indonesia referenced came out of Hillary's own mouth)

fortunately, most dems know better and are aware that the jihadi reference was a right wing smear that was debunked.

This won't help clinton if it gets into the mainstream media.

I do think it's unfair to blame her, or her entire campaign, for this one jackass.

A county chair for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been caught sending an e-mail casting aspersions on Sen. Barack Obama's religion, and today, the Clinton campaign asked the person, a volunteer, to leave the campaign.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/clinton_county_chair_in_iowa_i.php

These attacks from all sides against each other are petty & nasty and are going to end up weakening the nominee for the general election.

This could happen in any campaign and certainly it has one time or another.

The man is evil but even worse he's stupid...That vicious rumor has been around for several months...Why would you put your fingerprints on it to propogate it...

Politics makes people do really dumb and mean things...Bad combination...

good that this person is gone, but what the hell else could they do?

and when made aware, they did the right thing. Good for them.

The campaigns are run by squabbling children, it would seem. I'm really not impressed by either front-runner, nor their inability to control their organizations. It's like watching pre-schoolers run around and bop each other, then whine to the teacher - not how potential Presidents should be acting.

Get back to me when either candidate grows up and decides to become an adult.

Ever.