Posted on 10/15/2016 9:09:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A hacked email published by WikiLeaks this week shows that Democratic strategists — including top political allies of Hillary Clinton — were gauging voter attitudes about the Muslim faith of Barack Obama’s father during Clinton's unsuccessful fight for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
If this had come out in the midst of the 2008 Democratic primaries it would no doubt prompt angry comments from Obama campaign staffers and condemnations of attempts to other-ize the senator. But Democrats, not surprisingly, were mum Friday.
According to Tom Matzzie and Paul Begala, two Democratic consultants advising the 2008 polling effort by Progressive Media USA, it was simply an effort to test Obama’s vulnerabilities in a potential general election against John McCain. …
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Strategic/selective outrage
Yep. Now Tapper can say, `See? Who says I never did a story on Wikileaks?`
2008 ping.
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