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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:12 AM
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Clinton's campaign sent out e-mail saying Obama is a Muslim - link?
Does anyone have a link with information about Hillary's campaign sending that e-mail out (this was a couple months back)? Did she or someone from her campaign apologize or denounce the e-mail?

Additional and slightly related info; a friend of mine called her campaign and asked them to stop the misinformation about Obama being a muslim and the person who answered the phone said "But he IS a muslim". This is her National Campaign HQ spreading the lies.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:14 AM
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1. Do you have a phone number for her campaign? Anywhere?
Edited on Mon Apr-28-08 09:17 AM by grannylib
I'd like to try that one myself -
Thanks :-)
I s'pose I could always google it myself, lazy me... *lol*

On edit:
Found it: Arlington Virginia 703.469.2008
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:03 PM
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11. Sorry I didn't get back to you, running around/chicken head cut off - what did they tell you?
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annie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:15 AM
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2. you guys must be pretty desperate to try this crap again. hint...
you're currently winning, you don't have to regress to this little game plan...again.
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:23 PM
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13. Hey there Annie, I have a chance to see Hillary this week and I want to have my facts
together before I do. I live in NC and am heartsick at the racist comments and smears that are being flung about. I thought we were the party of progression, not regression.

"Little Game Plan" - not everyone here is about a game plan, some of us are here for info gathering and discussing the Primary.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:16 AM
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3. Here is a link from December 2007
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:31 AM
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4. That staffer was fired long ago. How desperate are you?
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:24 PM
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15. Do you have any information on that staffer and if Hillary made a comment about it?
I'm not desperate, I'm looking for information.
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Marlongo Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:34 AM
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5. That was a rumor started by Matt "made-up-exit-poll-numbers" Drudge, Obama supporters' hero
Matt Drudge presented no evidence whatsoever as to who in the Clinton campaign had "circulated" an email with the picture of Obama in Somali garment.

This is how Greg Sargent of TPM reported it:

Drudge reported this morning that Clinton staffers had "circulated" the photo. He didn't say who circulated it, what level of Clinton staffer had circulated it, or to whom it had been circulated. Drudge is the sole source for this email's existence. Nonetheless, the media has been all over the story today.


Wolfson, according to Sargent, “strongly denied any official campaign role in pushing the photo of Obama.”

“strongly denied any official campaign role in pushing the photo of Obama.”
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:36 AM
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6. LINK HERE:
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:18 PM
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12. Thanks, this link is what I was looking for.
Now I'd like to find out who the person was who was asked to stop volunteering because they sent the e-mail around and if Hillary made a public comment about it. Thanks again.
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Marlongo Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:37 AM
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7. Matt "made-up-exit-poll" Drudge (favorite among Obama fans) was the sole source of this rumor
Wolfson “strongly denied any official campaign role in pushing the photo of Obama.”, according to Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo.

Drudge, said Sargent, "didn't say who circulated it, what level of Clinton staffer had circulated it, or to whom it had been circulated. Drudge is the sole source for this email's existence."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/hillary_spokesperson_wolfson_s.php
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:39 AM
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8. Keep dreaming. Clinton's campaign has never denied nor denounced the photo or email.
Stop drinking the Clinton koolaid.
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Marlongo Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 09:47 AM
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9. Mr. Drudge fan, I gave you the link to Greg Sargent reporting Wolfson's "strong denial"
You reminds me of those who said Saddam Hussein had WMD because "he cannot prove he didn't".

When you accuse someone of doing something, you name names or present evidence: Drudge, your favorite source, presented nothing but an assertion. He wanted us to blindly believe him. I didn't. You did.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 10:16 AM
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10. You are truly a despicable human being projecting your own twisted ways onto me.
I posted a link to the Telegraph, which exposes your lie. Clinton's team sent out the email. Get over it.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:23 PM
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14. That Piece of Shit is a tombstoned troll.
:woohoo:
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 12:31 PM
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16. At least three this morning - dead to us


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