Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Clinton Volunteer Axed for Forwarding Obama 'Muslim' Smear Email


The lies that aim to swift-boat Barack Obama as a secret Muslim continue to spread. CNN disproved the claim a year ago, yet even the msm continue to spread the lie.

And now the notorious email, which falsely claims that Obama is a secret Muslim who attended a madrassa as a child, was received and forwarded on by an Iowa county chair volunteer for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The Democratic primary is already nasty enough without going this low, but expect right-wingers to proclaim that Hillary herself was behind this despicable act.

The Clinton campaign has condemned the act and asked the volunteer to step down. After the story surfaced on Daily Kos, Peter Daou - who left his blog in order to work for Hillary's campaign - responded:

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.