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New Info on Dirty Tricks Alleged by Clinton Campaign

Earlier today, Barack Obama's campaign called accusations that its staffers are berating Hillary Clinton supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire a "flat-out falsehood."

The Clinton campaign supplied Josh Marshall with a woman who claims to have received such a call. Here's what she had to say:

Last Tuesday evening I received a call from the Obama campaign, a gentleman identifying himself as from the Obama campaign in New Hampshire. He wanted to know my thoughts about the upcoming election in New Hampshire. I identified myself as a Hillary supporter.
He wanted to know what my thoughts were and why exactly I was supporting her. He started to argue that Hillary did nothing as a First Lady, what makes you think she'll do something now. It was definitely prepared.
Then I went on to say, well, women's rights are important to me. Then he had another prepared statement. He claimed that when South Dakota passed legislation to outlaw abortion, Hillary refused to fight it and to help try to support women's rights. He claimed that Obama was the only one would aid the people in South Dakota trying to fight that.
Then when I talked about her experience, he went on to say, I must be the sort of person who likes dirty tricks and politics as usual and said I would be supporting someone who would never change anything. I said he was insulting my judgment. He wanted to fight with me more, but I ended the call at that point.

If this has happened repeatedly, that would be evidence that the Obama campaign has scripts that instruct its staffers to bully supporters of its opponents. As of now, though, all we have is an overzealous caller.

It's also worth pointing out that the Clinton camp's original accusations made some serious charges (people were spreading misinformation about caucus locations, for example), but only charged the Obama campaign with an indefinite number of rude phone calls. This hasn't been hashed out completely, but it will likely poison any public appearances the two candidates have in the near future. The main confrontation in this race went from being Edwards sniping at Clinton to Clinton and Obama bodyslamming each other repeatedly.






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Yeah umm...me thinks this was just overzealous supporters.

Clinton is betting on the fact that most people don't follow politics and don't realize that this sort of thing happenes at phone banks every day....

give me a break.

Posted by: Paul on 12/04/07 at 1:44 PM  Respond

It is possible that Senator Clinton is the best candidate. However, even though many may like the policies that Senator Clinton proposes, they should also consider her record, just as Senator Clinton insists.
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The last Clinton Administration, when faced with the fact that protection rackets where assaulting, torturing and murdering people with poison and radiation, chose to avoid its responsibilities to incarcerate the criminals and to protect the citizenry.
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Instead, they made a deal with the criminal gang stalker protection rackets to leave them alone and to consequently abandon the citizenry.
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Do we want a President who sells out the citizenry for votes?
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Do we want a President who sends a "crime does pay" message to society?
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Would you vote for a President who signed nonaggression deals with the KKKlan or the Nazi party? Gangs that torture with poison and radiation are much like the KKKlan and Nazi Party.
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We do not need a sellout President. We need a principled leader President.
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If you are one of the few who do not know what the above refers to, do a web search for “gang stalking” to see the tip of the dirtberg. Please do it before you decide to reply to my post. Here let me make it easy for you: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22gang+stalking%22.
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Clinton's camp is pulling a play right out of the Republican book.

Have their staffers slam the Obama campaign for dirty tricks while Her Highness keeps her nose out of the fray. This is the same Clinton camp that slammed Obama for using political action committee funds to donate money to Democrats in key campaign states - an action that Clinton's PAC has done for years.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002635239

Posted by: Paul on 12/04/07 at 3:30 PM  Respond

Why is everyone so quick to assume this is the Obama campaign, albeit overzealous, etc.? It could very well Mark Penn's dirty tricks workshop, launching these calls and blaming the Obama campaign for them - a Rove-perfected and time-tested false-flag tactic that has been used by the more cynical take-no-prisoners campaign strategists for years - and Penn certainly qualifies in that category. Could Mark Penn be channeling Karl Rove, responding to bad news like a cornered rat? What a surprise that would be....

Posted by: rbrooks on 12/05/07 at 4:56 AM  Respond

STOP the Hillary attacks they make you all appear as childish as obama. Why not take a look at his record… well…that is, if you can find a political record for him…ask at Harpo productions. His only record is missing all important votes in the senate in his very short 104 weeks as a senator; he isn’t even qualified to be a senator let alone President!
The more obama speaks the more I hear a republican...

he thinks he can use Oprah’s money to buy the Presidency? HE IS CRAZY as she is...

After recent weeks and the personal attacks, I strongly now see the best choice and my vote will go to CLINTON, we need her contacts as well as the great relationships President Clinton has with other countries and experience, to work together so that other counties will share the bill and world security. We do not have time to play politics with the likes of obama and rest of these guys…
John Edwards would be an outstanding VP for Hillary

CLINTON 2008, the true SMART choice

Posted by: VOTERS AGANIST OBAMA WINPHREY on 12/05/07 at 6:11 AM  Respond

Sounds like a “vast right wing conspiracy”. How can she be taken seriously?
Look people, no one is that dumb. Absolutely no body would identify themselves as being from Obama’s camp and do something this stupid. Even if there are phone records that go back to a line owned by Obama’s team (and none have been identified), how do you know that there isn’t come conservative, Hillary, Edwards plant?
To jump on this laying blame is just another indication as to how reactionary these people are. And to buy it shows how dumb some of the people in this country are.

Posted by: kirkbrew on 12/05/07 at 7:57 AM  Respond

To hell with the both of them.
I'm voting for Kucinich, and if he's no longer in the running by the time our primary comes up, I'm voting for Edwards.
I don't think that either one of them is going to change anything in Washington. Where at least Kucinich has a plan for health care and withdrawal from Iraq. Plus he is seeking justice for the past 7, going on 8, years of hell the Bush administration put us through.

Posted by: ChaxC on 12/05/07 at 8:46 AM  Respond

who is hillary clinton kidding? the fact that chooses to make outrageous statements about barrack's desire to be president all the way back to kindergarden, while she has SELF dennied a glaring disregard for BIG BILL'S sexual indiscretions going all the way back to their first date at Yale in the early 70's is haunting famailiar. The shame, humilation and anger she has subjected HERSELF to all those years just to remain part of his two person dog and pony Presidental team surely is the reason she has garnered up so much SELF-RIGHTEOUS claim on the next presidency, never mine what the American public thinks. the audacity of this flawed and I might add SELF aggrandizing individual has to stop. she has all this SELF-PROCLAIMED experience at indulgence, long suffering and embarassment of the American people. I can't speak for anyone else, but i'm tired of her and smoke and mirror scam. by the way, i'm an registered independent.

Posted by: tom o'brien on 12/05/07 at 10:09 AM  Respond

Call me lame but this is the kind of stuff that does happen, including the theft of the election in Ohio by the Bushies in 2004. A theft which no one did anything about such as the FEC or DOJ. I wonder why?! Money and power is all it's about. It has nothing to do with the people and helping them, supporting them, or pulling them out of trouble when the water hits the levee. Crooks all, why would I waste my time with any of this horse manure?

Posted by: williamf on 12/20/07 at 7:36 AM  Respond

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