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Clinton Adviser Resigns Over Obama Comments
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Posted on 12/13/2007 1:35:59 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Clinton Adviser Resigns Over Obama Comments Obama Reveals Teen Drug Use In His Memoir

POSTED: 9:51 am EST December 13, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. -- Bill Shaheen has resigned as co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, reported WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H.

The resignation comes in the midst of fallout over comments Shaheen made regarding candidate Barack Obama's past drug use.

Shaheen earlier said he regrets having made the comments.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Shaheen said the Democratic party should beware of picking Obama as its candidate because Republicans could dredge up his past.

In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Obama wrote that as a teen he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, and occasionally would snort cocaine.

The Clinton campaign said it had nothing to do with the comments, and Shaheen himself is now backing away from them.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton2008; clintonscandals; hillary; nh2008; obama; obama2008; shaheen; whispercampaign
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To: Senator_Blutarski

We know he cant get off Nicotine!!! I’ll net they have much more on Obama!!


21 posted on 12/13/2007 2:02:45 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: theDentist

Dan Rather would own up to at least some of those including the H. But it was strictly for “experimental” purposes as a journalist.


22 posted on 12/13/2007 2:03:23 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Sub-Driver

The bloodletting begins....

How many more reinventions of the candidate will occur, and how many more heads will roll? This is like watching the Gambinos clean house, gangland style.


23 posted on 12/13/2007 2:08:32 PM PST by CASchack
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To: Sub-Driver

life is good when you’re the metrosexual husband of the governor of nh.


24 posted on 12/13/2007 2:09:19 PM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: Sub-Driver
Image hosted by Photobucket.com There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks, that maybe i can slip this one in and blame it on them and nobody will notice...

DOH!!!
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LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
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25 posted on 12/13/2007 2:10:36 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: duckman
In an interview with The Washington Post, Shaheen said the Democratic party should beware of picking Obama as its candidate because Republicans could dredge up his past...

In a related statement he said Republicans might ask Edwards about his love child, and Biden about his screaming matches with his wife.../s

26 posted on 12/13/2007 2:14:47 PM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

LOL


27 posted on 12/13/2007 2:18:09 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: All

28 posted on 12/13/2007 2:18:32 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: cmsgop
"Hillary’s Addicted to Carpet,Especially Middle Eastern Carpet.........

LOL! Now I know what it meant when they called HilLIARy a carpet bagger.

29 posted on 12/13/2007 2:27:34 PM PST by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: USS Alaska

I wouldn’t worry too much about lil’ Bill - his wife Jeannie (a true-blue pro-abortion ‘Catholic’) is still on Shrillary’s payroll and will be in for a big payoff if the election goes right. Lil’ Bill isn’t much of a man anyway.


30 posted on 12/13/2007 2:27:50 PM PST by NHResident
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To: Sub-Driver

Exactly, this guy got off easy.

I’d stay off single engine aircraft too if I were him.


31 posted on 12/13/2007 2:29:05 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: potlatch

LOL!

You’re giving her too much credit....it’s much more likely that a hearty “mistakes were made” was expressed.


32 posted on 12/13/2007 2:33:09 PM PST by CASchack
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To: Sub-Driver
The Clinton campaign said it had nothing to do with the comments, and Shaheen himself is now backing away from them.

Oh please. The campaign knew nothing. They put it out there and then told him to fall on his sword to cover their tracks. Does anyone (besides the MSM) believe these people?

33 posted on 12/13/2007 2:35:36 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: USS Alaska

“Another klintonite falls on his sword for the bitch. He did what he was ordered to do, which included his own suicide.”

Hopefully, Sununu will use the name Billy Shaheen in his fight against his hack sister in the upcoming senatorial race.


34 posted on 12/13/2007 2:40:50 PM PST by wilco200
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To: Sub-Driver
Why has this guy been fired? He hasn't said anything Obama hasn't.

While at exclusive Punahou School, he turned into a disenchanted teenage rebel, experimenting with cocaine and marijuana.

In his memoir/fable, "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," Obama recalls that he had "been headed" to the status of "junkie" or "pothead", which he describes as "the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man". He recalls smoking "reefer" in the backs of his friends' vans, dorm rooms and "on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school".

"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though." After transferring to Columbia, from Occidental College,Obama wrote, "I stopped getting high. I ran 3 miles a day and fasted on Sundays.

On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (12/5/2006) Obama was asked by Leno about taking drugs. Said Leno, "Remember, Senator, you are under oath. Did you inhale?" Replied Obama, "That was the point." In his book, Obama excuses his drug use as "reflective of the struggles and confusion of a teenage boy; teenage boys are frequently confused.”

The Obama File


35 posted on 12/13/2007 3:38:59 PM PST by Beckwith (<the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: COBOL2Java

Tow the line or wear a toe tag!


36 posted on 12/13/2007 3:48:32 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: wilco200
"Hopefully, Sununu will use the name Billy Shaheen in his fight against his hack sister in the upcoming senatorial race."

Actually, it's his wife who is running against Sununu.

37 posted on 12/13/2007 3:56:24 PM PST by CASchack
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To: Sub-Driver

and the clintin campaign is shocked that someone might have been on drugs?????????????? This is such a joke. I’m not a dem/lib but I would vote for Obama in a heartbeat. Did anyone see the debate today? Looks like the campaign is taking its toll on hilllereeee.


38 posted on 12/13/2007 3:59:51 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever fully realize.)
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To: cubreporter

Hillary has a HUGE set of BAGS under her eyes!!


39 posted on 12/13/2007 4:02:26 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Spunky

If as many friends testify, JFK, Jr. was going to run against Hillary in the NY Senate Primary in 2000@ Who do You think would win the Election? the Carpetbagger???????
or John F. Kennedy, Jr. ?


40 posted on 12/13/2007 4:03:18 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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