Posted on 09/19/2015 2:17:53 PM PDT by Vision Thing
Hillary Clinton said today that it’s just awful that Donald Trump is feeding into the idea that President Barack Obama is a Muslim and was born in Kenya, despite the fact that those notions were actively propagated by her own camp.
Let’s flashback to 2008: Clinton is locked in a heated primary battle with Obama, with nasty accusations being flung on both sides. But Obama has begun to pull and away and Clinton seems doomed when, lo and behold, a certain image ends up the featured image on the Drudge Report:
Clicking the link brought up a Drudge exclusive, reporting that Clinton staffers circulated the image via email. “Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were [Hillary]?” one Clinton staffer complained.
The Obama camp went ballistic, calling it “the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election.” Clinton aides at first brushed off the story entirely, but then denied having ever sent it. Even though, months earlier, the campaign was forced to fire two Iowa staffers caught forwarding an email saying Obama was a Muslim.
Then there were the comments from campaign surrogate Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey when he announced his support for Clinton. “It’s probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim,” Kerrey said. Because who doesn’t compliment someone by bringing up two extremely touchy topics with voters in the Muslim-friendly locality of Council Bluffs, Iowa?
Even when Clinton herself denounced the rumors, it sounded about as sincere as… well, everything else she says. Clinton seemingly left the door open for the possibility that Obama was a Muslim, saying he was a Christian… “as far as I know.”
To put this all in perspective: Once upon a time, the freakin’ FreeRepublic was making fun of Hillary Clinton for spreading the notion that Obama was a Muslim. Let that sink in.
At least with the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor, Clinton supporters can only be accused of playing into a nasty rumor that already existed on the right. But birtherism was their own invention, created by desperate supporters when it appeared all but inevitable that Obama would net the Democratic nomination.
From Politico‘s “Birtherism: Where It All Began“:
The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.
[…] That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
The article goes on to note that the first person to attach his name to the theory was one Peter Berg, a self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who also challenged John McCain‘s candidacy because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
I say all this not to excuse Trump — and the disreputable branch of conservatism he’s now come to represent. But when it comes to politicians tolerating those rumors among their supporters and staff, Clinton’s throwing stones in a glass house.
Yes, he’s pure evil.
Mediate supports Sanders?
““...the freakin’ FreeRepublic...”
doesn’t bother me either :) I’m sure the DU and buzzfeed calls us far worse...
Yep.
If so, why not dispel all the mongering with four words, viz.:
I love Freepers - we are creative, informed and have some great debates with those we disagree with. What a great place to get all the news worthy of being printed.It’s a shame that most aren’t as well informed as we are.
If BO came out as a Muslim, he would be the darling of the left. What
is he afraid of.
Maybe, but this piece against Hillary shows they don’t like her all that much.
That's "FReaking."
-PJ
We’re all freakin freepers!
Oh (slow on the uptake).
Trump said or did NOTHING OF THE KIND. He was asked a question about getting rid of alleged muslim training camps by some anonymous guy in the audience. Trump never agreed with him or ascended to the guy's opinion that Obama was a muslim himself. The Lying B*itch is projecting what her own feelings are about Obama onto Trump to score political points and provide cover for her failing campaign.
Hillary needs to make hay with this while the sun is shining to get the focus off of her email fiasco and tanking poll numbers. Tantamount to screaming, "Fire!" in a crowded theater so you can rob the cashier while everyone else is running from the scene of the crime.
I had coffee with 2 wise conservative senior citizens who happen to be of the "chosen" people if you will. The discussion of who and what he is came about. I raised the question what is he culturally? You cannot shed your Methodist, Catholic etc roots (culturally) when you grow up and change your faith direction. Internally you will always have those bias from your youth. Remember what he said as to who he will side with in conflict? Who raised him and in what faith? Why the trip to Pakistan when most men in their 20's would have went to an island or beach somewhere to met the fairer sex and maybe the women of their dreams. Pakistan? Are you freakin' kidding me? I don't remember a Club Med location their!
Who and what is Obama, regardless of where he practices his faith or when and is his world view through that prism of that up bringing....
No one is asking these questions....
Trump needs to say that when he becomes president that he will prove once and for all that Obama was born in the USA, not Kenya, by releasing his original birth certificate. He will release his college records and transcripts to prove that he didn’t attend college as a foreign student. He will also find out where he was baptized to prove he is a Christian and not a Muslim. When he becomes president he will quench all the rumors about Obama by releasing all his records
Alex GriswoldVerified account
@HashtagGriswold
Media reporter at @Mediaite. Formerly with @DailyCaller.
Wonder what his DU login name is?
“Once upon a time, the freakin’ FreeRepublic was making fun of Hillary Clinton...”
Who, exactly, made this statement? Alex Griswold? PIAPS? Someone else? The article is so poorly written that quotation marks are all messed up. (Or maybe I’m missing something.) Whomever said it, isn’t it nice for us to be noticed? :)
OH... That would be so funny!
I just posted the raw text instead.
As to your question "Who, exactly, made this statement?", well Griswold did. His words "the freaking FreeRepublic" linked to this FR posting: Here's The Obama Muslim "Smear" E-mail Sent Out By The County Chair Volunteering For Hillary.
I’d be horrified too, if I were Hillary, just at being Hillary.
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