Bill Clinton initially swore under oath that he "did not have sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky - but later admitted that he had misled the American public.
Nothing changes - let's move on America - Obama is the future!
Here's a taste of What the Clinton slime machine is spewing across the country and headed your way if you live in a Tsunami Tuesday State:
Clinton's shenanigans
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By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist / December 15, 2007
MONTICELLO, Iowa
BARACK OBAMA said yesterday that he accepted the apology of Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton after Bill Shaheen, Clinton's New Hampshire cochairman, suggested that Obama's teenage drug use would hurt him in the general election.It was clear, though, that the apology did not cover all the recent shots at Obama that raise questions as to whether the Clinton campaign is getting desperate.
"The kindergarten stuff was not mentioned," Obama said in an interview after a morning town hall event here in eastern Iowa. The Clinton team was ridiculed in political circles for dredging up an Obama kindergarten I-want-to-be-president essay.
"She apologized for Billy Shaheen's comments, and said she had nothing to do with it," Obama said. "I accepted her apology. But the simple point I made was simply that it's important for those of us who are the candidates to send a clear signal down to all of our surrogates that we're going to do things differently."
Shaheen resigned this week after raising the issue in an interview with the Washington Post. But even after Shaheen's resignation, Clinton strategist Mark Penn used the "C" word in an appearance on MSNBC, saying, "The issue related to cocaine use is not something that the campaign was in any way raising."
That leaves open as to how far the Clinton campaign, whose poll leads have evaporated in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, will go to stereotype Obama as not only naïve, but cast him in a sinister light in a nation where black drug use and criminality is exaggerated in the media and where Muslims face undue wariness. Earlier this week, the Clinton staff fired two Iowa volunteer coordinators for circulating a hoax e-mail saying Obama, a Christian, was a Muslim who might help destroy the United States.
"I don't think these strategies are very subtle," Obama said.
"I won't speak to the racial element of it because I think, you know, if I were a white candidate, obviously, somebody suggesting falsely they were a drug dealer, it's never good." But in sum, Obama, who has written about his teenage drug use in his memoirs, said, "There's been a series of these kinds of tactics that at some point we've just got to send a clear signal this is not what we're about."
The attacks appear to have no effect on his crowds. No one asked about drugs or kindergarten essays or his religion in well-attended community events in frigid, ice-strewn towns. They asked about healthcare, Iraq, and jobs.
Thursday night in Maquoketa, Brenda Carlson, a 57-year-old medical technologist, said she recently went to hear former President Bill Clinton speak on behalf of his wife, Hillary. "It was great. It was like going home," Carlson said. "But Barack is dynamic. I really like what he says about taking back America. I think I may change to him."
Also clearly enjoying the overreaching by Clinton was John Edwards. Seemingly recovered from puncturing his commoner image with his $400 haircut and huge house, he was in full roar Wednesday at a middle-school auditorium in Des Moines. His promise to fight the establishment earned ovations that drowned him out.
"I take it very personally when I see powerful, well-financed interests drug companies, oil companies, insurance companies, big banks, when I see them taking over this democracy and taking your rights away from you," Edwards said. In an interview after the speech, Edwards said he remains resolute that his message is working that "the system is broken" and Clinton "defends the system."
Obama was careful not to say who the Democratic nomination belongs to, two-and-a-half weeks before the Iowa caucuses. "She remains the favorite," Obama said of Clinton. "She was considered a shoo-in at least for the nomination as recently as a month ago. We've made some progress, but you know, she still has an enormous infrastructure and a former president who is extraordinarily popular campaigning on her behalf . . . We got a shot, but we've got to stay hungry."
Obama even said that there was a positive side to the attacks by Clinton surrogates. "All these issues and these tactics are ones that very well could come up in a general election. So I don't mind if this stuff comes up now.
"Let's get it on now. Let's be clear about whether these tactics work or not . . . I do not think these kinds of tactics work. I'm from Chicago. I'm used to all kinds of shenanigans."
Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is jackson@globe.com.
© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Rumor Mill Takes Aim at Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
Cody Sheets Salem-News.com
E-mails based on political agendas, are causing the facts to be blurred and changing the real picture to one of forcefully mistaken identity. (SALEM, Ore.) - With less than twenty-four hours before the New Hampshire Primaries are conducted, an old rumor has resurfaced that threatens to confuse uninformed readers.
Formerly posted on rumor filled websites, and only circulated minimally through e-mail, the dirty political rumors of the Internet have returned full scale to combat the serious rise of Barack Obama's chances to be President Elect.
If you have opened up your e-mail recently, you may have noticed two things were new. One, there is a new person listed under your contact list, Mary, and two, Mary has sent an e-mail claiming that Barack Obama is actually a Muslim extremist.
Mary then goes on to list a site, Snopes.com, that would tell you why Barack is actually a Muslim extremist, and why you should not vote for the man who will "destroy this country from the inside out."
The e-mail attacks his birth to Muslim parents, and a random picture where Obama did not have his hand on his heart during the national anthem. They also attack his repeated comments that he is not, nor ever was, a follower of Islam. They bring up the school he went to as a child, and claim it was a madrassa an Arabic secular or religious school often referred to in this country as an "Islamic religious school." The e-mail goes on to call him a liar, and say he is "an instrument of terrorism".
These e-mail rumors were presented sparsely in January of 2007, but made their way to the attention of the Washington Post who reported that, "The rumors about Obama have been echoed on Internet message boards and chain e-mails... Human Events, another conservative magazine, published on its Web site a package of articles called 'Barack Obama Exposed.' One of them was titled 'The First Muslim President?'"
But a closer examination of the Snopes.com data under 'Barack Obama' tells a very different story than the e-mail. The site in fact specifically states that the information in the e-mail is not true, as cited in the graphic below.
What do yesterday's rumors have to do with today's elections?
Everything. Because this time, the e-mail chain lettering and falsified rumors about Obama's religion have been re-issued with no time for New Hampshire voters to re-evaluate the truth.
When the rumors first came, they could be found and debunked, long before any real damage could be done. But, in light of the elections, and with little time to fight back, it seems that these new e-mails may affect voters before those voters will know the truth.
These e-mail senders are putting forth their own political agendas by causing the facts to be blurred, and changing the real picture to one of forcefully mistaken identity. Do not let these lies cloud the vision of what's real, or allow the words of rumor mills to change true history.
Despite repeated e-mail attempts to the sender, Mary, no reply has been received. The people will give an honest response to Mary when tomorrow's elections are at an end, and that will require no reply.
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An Iowa Clinton-backer goes there
The Clinton campaign is forcing a county coordinator to leave the campaign after the supported dipped into one of the darker spots of the Internet, forwarding an e-mail with the Obama-Muslim claim.
A Kos diarist the Nation identifies as Jones county chair Gary Hart (not that Gary Hart), who supports Dodd, wrote:
Over the past week or so, I have received two of the most hateful hit pieces on Obama parroting right wing talking points. One was forwarded to me from a Clinton county chair. The other was from a person who claimed to be a former Obama supporter, but a little work with Google revealed she had been posting pro-Clinton comments for several months on websites covering the campaign.
They both repeat the Obama/Osama crap, and the "madrassa" charges. And there is the conclusion that Obama is a mole whose intention is to make a Muslim revolution in the U.S.
I have replied with factual citations and a suggestion that those people are doing their candidate no good by spreading the hate.
Daou posted a response from Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle:
There is no place in our campaign, or any campaign, for this kind of politics. 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. Let me be clear: No one should be engaging in this. We are asking this volunteer county coordinator to step down and are making it clear to every person involved in our campaign that this will not be tolerated.