Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Monday disavowed a memo criticizing rival Hillary Rodham Clinton’s financial ties to India, blaming his campaign staff for a “dumb mistake.”
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The memo has created a furor in the Indian-American community and raised questions about Obama’s claims that he is above attack politics epitomized by secretly distributing opposition research about a rival. Placing the blame on his staff is not new. Earlier this year, Obama faulted his staff for comments in a dispute with the Clinton camp over Hollywood donor David Geffen.
Last Thursday, Obama’s campaign sent the memo to reporters, demanding that it not be attributed to their campaign. The Clinton campaign got a copy and sent it to reporters.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19299719 /
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.
The memo, which was obtained by the Huffington Post and has been made public elsewhere,is believed to have been given to an activist and contains mostly excerpts from different media reports. It lists the contact info and name of Obama's South Carolina press secretary, Amaya Smith, and is broken down into five incidents in which either Clinton, her husband Bill, or campaign surrogates made comments that could be interpreted as racially insensitive.
The document provides an indication that, in private, the Obama campaign is seeking to capitalize on the view - and push the narrative - that the Clintons are using race-related issues for political leverage. In public, the Obama campaign has denied that they are trying to propagate such a perception, noting that the document never was sent to the press.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/o... Then you have that fun business where Obama's financial adviser met with Canadian officials to tell them not to listen to his public stance on NAFTA, and when they got caught out, tried to bullshit their way out of it and pin the tail on HC. Too bad that didn't work, huh?
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2008/03/sme... Did someone say, "politics of personal destruction?"Obama Campaign Claims Clinton Has 'Character Gap' - "Sen. Clinton misled the voters of Ohio," he said, arguing that Clinton had been duplicitous and double-dealing when it came to claims that she had helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, in her push for revotes in Michigan and Florida, and in her claims that her campaign is not promoting the story about Obama's relationship with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/St...
