
Ok, We all know how hard Hillary is working for "us", but I have to admit that I'm having trouble keeping up with her attacks on Obama. Let see what I have so far:
- Two Iowa County Volunteer Coordinators' sending Oh, No Obama is a Muslim emails to supporters.
- The Campaign sent out cryptic, somewhat ominous, note in an email to journalists and supporters with a link to a post "The Politics Of Obama's Past Cocaine Use."
- Bill Shaheen does the Obama-is-a-druggie and Dealer routine
- Hardball battle of the consultants when Chief Strategist Mark Penn inserted Cocaine into 08 Campaign.
- Bill Clinton says we're "rolling the dice" with Obama, on Charlie Rose Show
- Now Kerry is "apologizing" for his Obama-went-to-a-Madrassa remarks.
Bob Kerrey Apologizes To Obama Over Raising Muslim “Issue”
By Joe Gandelman, The Moderate Voice
I didn’t mean to do it.
That’s the gist of former Nebraska Senator and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Kerrey’s written apology to Democratic Senator Barack Obama for raising the issue of Obama’s Muslim background — an issue many believe is a) bogus b) raised to drive up Obama’s negatives.
Kerrey insists that was not the case but the fact is: whether it was by design or not, Kerrey managed to shove this issue into local, regional and national news cycles to get the attention of voters who are anti-Muslim:
Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has apologized to Barack Obama for any unintentional insult he committed by raising the Democratic presidential candidate’s Muslim heritage while endorsing rival candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Kerrey sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday, lauding the Illinois senator’s qualifications to be president and saying that he never meant to harm his candidacy. Kerrey told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he sent the letter on his own and had not spoken to Clinton or her campaign about the comments he made Sunday in Iowa.
“What I found myself getting into in Iowa - and it was my own fault - it was the wrong moment to do it and it was insulting,” Kerrey told the AP. “I meant no disrespect at all.”
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the senator accepted Kerrey’s apology, sent to the campaign in the mail and via e-mail.
But the damage is done. And in these days when voters increasingly can be assured that people in politics, who have been in politics or who are connected to political campaigns may have agendas beyond that which formally comes out of their mouths, some analysts will conclude: the damage (to Obama AND to Clinton’s campaign) is DONE:
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