NH Smear-peddlers for Clintons want to Kiss & Make up with Obama Supporters

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 2:06 PM PST

2008/01/18 · 14:06

Like many Obama supporters, I was pretty outraged by the lies (yes, LIES) Team Clinton sent out in mailing pieces in Iowa and New Hampshire regarding Obama's 100% POSITIVE pro-choice record. Now, days after those lies helped the dishonest Clintons win NH, many of the same people have now sent a new letter to Dem leaders in the state asking us all to kiss and make up.

And in one case, a founder of the NARAL chapter in NH actually admits she signed her name to the letter without bothering to check whether or not the lies and smears she was helping to propagate were true. She finds herself dismayed that the Clintons misled her (join the club), but I find it outrageous she didn't bother to check out the truth herself before slamming a good Democrat. I'm not sure if it's more outrageous to be ignorant, or to know the truth and after the smear worked try to pretty it up with a plea for peace and reconciliation.

From The Trail:

Three New Hampshire Democratic leaders who signed a letter two days before the state's primary at the request of Hillary Clinton's campaign, attacking Barack Obama as soft in his support for abortion rights, are asking Obama supporters in the state to put the rifts of the primary campaign behind them and praising Obama for being "strongly pro-choice."

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Katie Wheeler, a former state senator, said the Clinton campaign had not given her background information about Obama's record on abortion rights when it asked her to sign the letter calling him weak on the issue, and said that, as a result, she did not understand the context of the votes that the letter was attacking him over.

"It should never have gotten to the point where anyone thought Obama was not pro-choice," said Wheeler, a founder of the New Hampshire chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "I don't think the Clinton campaign should have done that. It was divisive and unnecessary...I think it was a mistake and I've spoken to the national [Clinton campaign] and told them it caused problems in New Hampshire, and am hoping they won't do it again."

Yet more evidence of the Clintons' dishonest, self-serving, in-the-gutter political campaign.

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