Just heard on MSNBC

According to the news, the McCain's camp in sending out emails telling Jewish voters that Obama was connected to the Holocaust. Anyone here got such an email? It was stated that the McCain administration approved this email. What else are they to think off? Considering that the Holocaust happened approx.60 years ago and Obama is 40 something. Outrageous!

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http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/10/25/pa-republicans-disavow-obama-holocaust-e-mail/

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/26/pennsylvania-gop-sends-out-e-mail-saying-obama-would-bring-about-holocaust/

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/239970.php

No one man could find 75,000 Jewish voters without help from party officials
They are desperate - send send send - deny, deny, deny

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Looking for more links

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/239970.php
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Political consultant Bryan Rudnick was identified as the person responsible for it. Rudnick, reached Saturday night, confirmed that he no longer works for the party, which employed him a few weeks ago as a consultant to do outreach to Jewish voters.

"I had authorization from party officials" to send the e-mail, Rudnick said, but he declined to say who had signed off on it. "I'm not looking to drag anyone else through the mud, so I'm not naming names right now," he said.

That's a pretty good story in its own right: Another under-the-radar GOP sleaze tactic exposed and yet another low- to mid-level GOP operative scapegoated because he got caught on the wrong side of the McCain campaign's shifting line between what is just sleazy and what is too sleazy (a line that seems to get drawn immediately after the GOP gets busted).

But it gets better.

Like the state GOP, the McCain camp is running away from this email, and the spokesperson doing the distancing is none other than Peter Feldman. That's the same guy who on Thursday, the day the email went out, was pushing the mugging hoax to reporters as a politically motivated attack by a black Obama supporter, playing to the worst of white fears and racial prejudices.
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Somebody provided the names and addresses of 75,000 Jewish voters.

You know, his appeasement will lead to another holocaust in Israel, that sort of thing. Pretty old stuff actually.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7927392

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania Republicans are disavowing an e-mail sent to Jewish voters that likens a vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to events that led up to the Holocaust.

"Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008," the e-mail reads. "Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let's not make a similar one this year!"

...It warns "Fellow Jewish Voters" of the danger of a second Holocaust due to the threats to Israel from its neighbors and touts Republican presidential candidate John McCain's qualifications over those of Obama.

State GOP officials disavowed the e-mail and said the strategist who helped draft it had been fired.

"The Republican Party of Pennsylvania did not authorize that e-mail," Michael Barley, communications director for the state party, told The Associated Press on Saturday evening.

..."I had authorization from party officials" to send the e-mail, Rudnick said, but he declined to say who had signed off on it. "I'm not looking to drag anyone else through the mud, so I'm not naming names right now," he said.

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that might be a little desperate

As well as the Boston Massacre.

I know there are dumb Jews, I do. But surely none of us will be dumb enough to think a man of 46 had anything to do with events that took place 65 years ago.

Oh, wait...they aren't. :silly:

nwmhtt

Arrrrrnie? In the case of the later I seem to remember something about his father and/or grandfather being SS

It was Obama !

That kind of tactic is SO FILTHY that anyone who hasn't been totally brainwashed by the right will be completely repelled by it.

Enjoy your visit.

Though the OP has some of the details wrong. Here's a link:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1127920&srvc=2008campnews&position=5

Someone from the PA GOP sent an e-mail pretty much saying that Obama's foreign policy is so dangerous that it could lead to another Holocaust. Apparently this person has been fired.

Shoot first, ask questions later. :rofl:

Especially if there's a vulnerable messenger involved...


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:rofl:

Just kidding with you. I think people jump on posters if they don't have a lot of posts and just assume that they must be secret Republicans trying to disrupt this board.

No way did I think MSNBC would be reporting on something like that.

even though I actually was until I started college...in 1965. I didn't even appreciate the concept of an epiphany back then; I do now...for sure

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of Republics.

You betcha.

to the wind going through their ears.

When in modern day politics, a partisan has to invoke highly inflammatory language from the Nazi era, you know they're at the true bottom of the barrel.