Mayhill (writer of "bitter" comment) is also Junehill - wrote pro HRC comments in '07 & other

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Mayhill (writer of "bitter" comment) is also Junehill - wrote pro HRC comments in '07 & other

Edited on Mon Apr-14-08 11:28 AM by 1776Forever

interesting comments per Daily Kos blogs:

http://junehill.blogspot.com /

Mayhill/Junehill wrote this:

Friday, July 13, 2007
Hillary Clinton, Wellesley Girl

Flopped out in the Rio Grande Valley, nursing a cold, I've been reading Carl Bernstein's new biography of Hillary Clinton, trying to get a better sense of a woman I might well vote for come November 2008.

And at the end of the page she wrote:

Obamatized!

* "'And when our idealism spills into that kind of naivete and an unwillingness to acknowledge history and the weight of other cultures, then we get ourselves into trouble.'" (interview with Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker 5/7/07)

* "But over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people, and join a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy." (Barack Obama, keynote address at the Call for Renewal Building a Covenant conference, June 28, 2006, entire text on the Sojourners magazine website)

* Threading the Niebuhrian Needle: "'So I asked, What do you take away from him ?' 'I take away,' Mr. Obama answered in a rush of words, 'the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn't use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away... the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naive idealism to bitter realism.'" (Thanks to David Brooks, NYT 4/26)

She also wrote this:

Whatever -

Mullah Moments: our world through his eyes. Obamatized: I have to thank my husband for this one. When the day comes that I am no longer enamoured of Mr. O, I will put this list out to pasture.

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I found out about this from a Daily Kos blog -

Who the 'eff' is Mayhill Fowler????? (Leaked Obama's 'bitter' clip)
by beebj
Sat Apr 12, 2008

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/12/15638/8512/891/494398

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Some on that site are saying her husband gave 25K contribution to HRC. I think someone in the media should do some more digging into this one. The fund raiser was apparently in a private home and was not supposed to be taped. This is posted on the Obama blog board:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/hopeandchange/gGBWzl

How I spent my Sunday with Obama and the Mayhill Fowler Agenda
By Sandy - Apr 12th, 2008 at 5:50 am EDT

Imagine my surprise to see an article in the Huffington Post by Mayhill Fowler describing his answer as "a problematic judgment call in trying to explain working class culture to a much wealthier audience." and his answer being like "explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County." I guess Ms. Fowler thought that, unlike herself, the other attendees had never gone outside the large house in Pacific Heights where the event was held. I grew up working class in Texas. I thought it ironic that Ms Fowler, was attempting to paint Obama as a condescending elitist, while at the same time she was stereotyping everybody at the event with her omniscient insight.

In any case, her agenda was clear. Despite Ms. Fowler talking about the people at the fundraiser being middle class in an earlier post, the "rich man poor man" theme fit better with the "Obama as a judgmental elite, talking to judgmental elites" spin. This also seemed to fit with some of her earlier articles where she had described Obama as cocky, arrogant, and even "flirty". What a coincidence that she now writes an article putting another twist on Obama's personality. All she had to do was a sneak a recorder in an small event for Obama supporters and do a little bit of crafty writing and out of context editing. Now Fox News and Lou Dobbs are having a field day.

(snip)

It was great seeing Obama in a relaxed setting, talking both in detail and inspiring prose, in what was essentially a large living room.

Too bad there were roaches under the sofa.

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Wanted to add this:

Like I said why would a supporter go to a private fund rasier where there were not supposed to be any taping and try to get a "gotcha" comment? If it was a Hillary "supporter" I would quesiton this also. Did you see in the person that was there say that Fowler's first post didn't say anything about the elitist crowd comment? Well the editor on the Huffington Post that OK'd Fowler's post said he ask her to jazz it up a little. Here is his website marccooper.com:

http://marccooper.com/inside-the-obama-guns-god-bittern... /

Inside the Obama-Guns-God-Bitterness Storm

As the editorial coordinator of HuffPost’s OffTheBus project, I had the privilege and responsibility of doing the final edit ultimately approving for publication the web story Friday that has set off a firestorm over Barack Obama’s remarks about a “bitter” attitude that sometimes plagues economically-pressed small towns. Specifically those in Pennsylvania.

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Who paid for Ms. Fowler to follow Obama and was there influence from the HRC camp? Mayhillian Rovian maybe????

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