Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race

[rodeodance]

Even fox today was careful to say they have no idea where this originated. and the link to the full memo is blank.


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4052064, Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race
Posted by rodeodance on Sun Jan-13-08 11:54 AM






http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html

…….The Obama camp did not return repeated requests for comment. But campaign spokesperson Candice Tolliver told Politico that, in regards to the race-based comment: "Folks are beginning to wonder: Is this really an isolated situation or is there something bigger behind all of this?"………..

Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race

January 12, 2008 01:15 PM

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.
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