WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2007
Clinton Volunteer Quits Over Obama E-Mail
Hoax Message Suggested Obama Is A Radical Muslim Attempting To Infiltrate U.S. Government
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Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ.
A hoax e-mail that has been widely circulated suggests Obama is some sort of Manchurian candidate for Muslims.
Judy Rose, a Clinton coordinator in Jones County, Iowa, forwarded it without comment to eight people on Nov. 21, according to a copy of the e-mail obtained by The Associated Press. One of the recipients was a Clinton staffer and another was Gary Hart, a Democratic Party official in Jones County.
Hart is a supporter of Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and posted an item about the "hateful" e-mail on the liberal blog Daily Kos. The Clinton campaign responded by asking Rose to step down.
"There is no place in our campaign, or any campaign, for this kind of politics," Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle said in a statement Wednesday. "A volunteer county coordinator made the mistake of forwarding an outrageous and offensive chain e-mail. This was wholly unauthorized and we were totally unaware of it."
According to a release on the Clinton campaign Web site, Rose is from Anamosa, Iowa, and served on Clinton's Women's Leadership Council. Rose did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment.
The Obama campaign declined to comment on her resignation.
The e-mail that Rose forwarded points out that Obama's father and stepfather were Muslim and that Obama lived in Indonesia for part of his childhood. But other parts of the e-mail are false - Obama attended public and Catholic schools in Indonesia, not a radical Islamic school. It is also not true that Obama used the Koran instead of the Bible when sworn into office or that he ever "admitted" to being a Muslim.
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- Posted by GreatDriveW at 06:27 PM : Dec 05, 2007
If Nancy should resign for trying to change things then the entire Republican congress should as well for their incompetency as lead this country where it is today or did you forget they were in charge for the last 12 years neocon. We didn''t we left then there for 12 long years and all of your belly aching won''t change the fact that the Democrats get more than a month to fix this mess the Republicans created.
If they fail it will be the independents turn next. What did you think we wanted your clowns back that is a laugh. - Reply to this comment
- "A volunteer county coordinator made the mistake of forwarding an outrageous and offensive chain e-mail. This was wholly unauthorized and we were totally unaware of it."
A mistake is something a person is sorry for--not the consequences but the act itself. It is also something one usually does by accident without malicious intent. Of course this act was deliberate and thought out and so was not a mistake.
If Rose regrets anything, it was getting caught and being dumped--but now...trace that email to its source...because if this had come from the Republican camp, all Dems would have pounced on it and ran with "the horror of it" for weeks. - Reply to this comment
- Why THEmagic07 cannot be trusted...
inbred blood. His father was an inbred. The son is an inbred for life. - Reply to this comment
- white racism/bigotry rears it head....
obama & blacks are not "surprised" @ this ***!!!
coming from repukes & undemocratic bigots!!!!
hillary will say "i deny any knowledge", but she has her private investigators "looking for dirt", then she wil deny any association to look like she is "above the fray"!!!
i am tired of white denial....
obama is winning "hearts & minds" one "common sense person" at a time.... white, black, asian christian, muslim or jew!!!!
wake up people!!!!! no drama with obama!!! in 2008!!! - Reply to this comment
- She should''''ve resigned. Boy, there''''s a lot of hatred in a supposedly anti-hatred party.
Posted by denn034 at 06:07 PM
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Of course there is a lot of hatred - Everyone is having religion rammed down their throats - Christian Religion - its all about hatred. Just look at its history.
Republicans just show their hatred openly and freely. Democrats are closet haters. - Reply to this comment
- Let''s put Hitlery and Obamba in a small room and let them fight to the death.
The winner can suck on Ron Paul''s balls. - Reply to this comment
- "Excellent satire! Posted by element51
Haven''t laughed so hard in a long time!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I got this email several weeks ago from a Republican friend of mine (who is also gullible.) I just told her to check on Snopes and see if it was valid. I already knew that it wasn''t, but I never heard back from her, so I am sure she found out it was a hoax and was embarrassed. Obama just needs to get used to this kind of tripe and address it.
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- GreatDriveW...
Excellent satire! - Reply to this comment
- denn034....
You are absolutely right. But I think the "hatred" crosses party lines. That''s the problem. In order to make an informed voting decision we need accurate information and it is very hard to determine the truth from the lies and mis-information. Therefore it is up to us, the voters, to sift through all the stories that come out to find the truth. It''s sad but the public is so divided and hate filled that if something nasty comes out about a candidate we don''t like we embrace it truthful or not. This is going to be a close election and we simply have to get this one right for the good of the country. - Reply to this comment
- HOUSE SPEAKER PELOSI RESIGNS:
(San Francisco, CA) 12/05/07 5:54EST On Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (I CA) announced her resignation from office. Before a stunned audience of staffers and press corps, Pelosi stated %u201CIt is clear that I can no longer maintain the charade of leadership.%u201D
Quizzed by reporters about her sudden decision, Pelosi stated %u201Cmy incompetence and betrayal of last November%u2019s mandate cannot continue%u2026 my ineptitudes, in conjunction with ongoing battles against alcohol and spastic bowel syndrome, are forcing me to step down.%u201D Asked by reporters what she planned to do, Pelosi stated, %u201CI%u2019m going on vacation with Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq%u2026probably somewhere North, South, East or West of Takrit.%u201D - Reply to this comment
- She should''ve resigned. Boy, there''s a lot of hatred in a supposedly anti-hatred party.
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