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Hillary, who started “Obama is a Muslim” thing in 2008, appalled Trump might think Obama's a Muslim
Hot Air ^ | September 18, 2015 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/18/2015 7:58:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Is the word “started” too strong? How about “popularized”? “Amplified”? “Attempted to capitalize on politically”? We can split these hairs as finely as you’d like.

Here’s what she said today about Trump’s now-famous Q&A last night, via Mediaite:

“He knew or he should have known that what that man was asking was not only way out of bounds, it was untrue,” she continued. “And he should have, from the beginning, repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before. So I would call on him and call on all of the candidates to stop this descent into the kind hateful, mean-spirited, divisive rhetoric that we have seen too much of in the last months.”…

“I think it is prejudiced, I think it is discriminatory, and I think that it comes out of the unfortunate reservoir of hateful rhetoric that we have seen too much of where people are being set against one another, and that has no place in our politics,” she said.

Slate, February 25, 2008:

Today, the Drudge Report posted a big, fat headline that howled, “Clinton staffers circulate ‘dressed’ Obama.” Accompanying the headline was a picture of Obama on a diplomatic trip to Kenya in 2006, wearing some type of traditional dress of the area—complete with a turban-looking headdress…

First, the Obama campaign sent around a press release at 9:29 a.m. from campaign manager David Plouffe, in which he said the photo is “exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world.”

Then, at 10:54 a.m., Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, pierced the quiet with her own release. “Enough,” she wrote. “If Barack Obama’s campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.” She goes on to say Obama is trying to “distract from the serious issues.” Note that they never refuted Drudge’s piece…

In December, the [Clinton] campaign asked two of its employees to resign after they proliferated rumors that Obama was a Muslim.

Let me remind you again, as I did this morning, that Hillary herself once hedged when asked if Obama was a Muslim, saying there was no evidence of that “as far as I know.” And let me remind you of something else that doesn’t get much play these days but was a fact of political life during the 2008 Democratic primary: Both Obama fans and Hillary fans were convinced that the other side was playing filthy racial politics at various points in the campaign. Remember when Bill Clinton compared Obama’s primary win in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson’s wins there, which O’s supporters took as an attempt to pigeonhole him as a “black candidate”? Remember when Hillary said early on in the primaries that for all of MLK’s civil rights achievements, it took LBJ to actually turn them into law? Obama called that comment “ill advised,” supposedly because it diminished King but really because it cast him in the role of an inspirational black leader who should be operating outside politics. Remember later in the campaign when Hillary argued she’d be more electable as nominee because her support was stronger among “working, hard-working Americans, white Americans”? That comment earned her the opprobrium of Media Matters staffer Oliver Willis in a post titled “Hillary White Power Clinton.” And do you remember how all of these racial accusations annoyed the living s**t out of Hillary and her supporters, all the way up to Bill Clinton himself? Lots of liberals don’t remember. But a few, like Ryan Cooper, still do. Maybe Herself’s finger-wagging at Trump here will lead our media to take its own trip down memory lane.

When you’re done with the clip, dive into this immensely enjoyable article from Politico in which 20 big-name Democrats try and fail miserably to name one meaningful Hillary Clinton accomplishment. Barbara Boxer’s submission, no joke, is “galvanizing the Senate after the tragedy of 9/11 to rebuild the city,” as if that wouldn’t have happened without her. You want to know what Hillary’s real biggest accomplishment is? It’s not making an atrocious deal with Iran that’ll give them a nuclear weapon in 15 years like her successor did. If she was honest, that’s what she’d campaign on.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Arkansas; New York; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008election; 2016election; birtherism; clinton; election2016; hillary; hillarycampaign; islam; newyork; obama; trump
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1 posted on 09/18/2015 7:58:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I predict Trump poll numbers increase because of it.


2 posted on 09/18/2015 8:01:18 PM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He shows infinitely more respect to Muslims than to Christians or Jews. I still say he is an atheist. If there is a drop of religion in him then it is the Shirley Maclaine “I am god” new age religion of self worship.


3 posted on 09/18/2015 8:02:29 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is a Muslim, and Trump said no such thing.


4 posted on 09/18/2015 8:05:12 PM PDT by Williams
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is a Muslim. Ask him about his “wedding” band. Next question.


5 posted on 09/18/2015 8:05:18 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Taggart_D

I hope he does not back down. That’s what is so great
about Trump. He says what most of us, (frustrated pubs./
cons.) are thinking/feeling.


6 posted on 09/18/2015 8:10:46 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, well... You would think that liberals would consider being mistaken for a muslim to be a compliment and not a slur.


7 posted on 09/18/2015 8:13:59 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Today, the Drudge Report posted a big, fat headline that howled, “Clinton staffers circulate ‘dressed’ Obama.” Accompanying the headline was a picture of Obama on a diplomatic trip to Kenya in 2006, wearing some type of traditional dress of the area—complete with a turban-looking headdress…

Is this the pic Hitlery....oops, I mean....Hitlery's STAFFERS released?


8 posted on 09/18/2015 8:25:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or is this the pic?


9 posted on 09/18/2015 8:26:26 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or this?


10 posted on 09/18/2015 8:27:13 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

He definitely has muzzie eyes....scary.


11 posted on 09/18/2015 8:29:13 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Islam is attacked I will stand with the Muslims.

.....B Hussein Obama.

12 posted on 09/18/2015 8:30:58 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many times does the guy have to say, hint or act like he’s a Muslim? :-)


13 posted on 09/18/2015 8:31:34 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"(Damn, man. I wish this whole 'he's a mooselimb' thing would just go away.)"
14 posted on 09/18/2015 8:34:21 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is definitely an egomaniac and Trump should recognize one of those when he sees one.


15 posted on 09/18/2015 8:36:37 PM PDT by rey
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To: Williams; 2ndDivisionVet

He admitted himself on ABC with Srephanopolis saying: “I’m glad that John McCain has not challenged my Muslim’s belief” I heard it myself with my own ears. Not a slip of the tongue just lack of concentration, and Georgie hurried to correct him with “Your Christian belief”!!!


16 posted on 09/18/2015 8:41:22 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Texas Eagle; 2ndDivisionVet

Wasn’t he (LOGAN act) interfering with his cousin’s election, a muzzie also???


17 posted on 09/18/2015 8:44:40 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

I confess ignorance on that one? Got a link or anything that might help a brother out?


18 posted on 09/18/2015 8:46:23 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All I know is that the phrase “Obama is a Muslim” is being repeated endlessly on MSM and all over the internet. They don’t want anyone to say it, now everyone is saying it.

And by the very people who complain about it. Can we call that ‘irony’ ?


19 posted on 09/18/2015 8:52:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: danamco
The media accepted his campaign spin that he just 'misspoke' during the Boy George interview.

I can't imagine that anyone ever in history misspoke about the religion they were raised in. Could you imagine a Catholic accidentally referring to their Jewish beliefs, or visa versa?

20 posted on 09/18/2015 8:53:24 PM PDT by Baynative (Liberty lost is a high price to pay for the experiment of socialism.)
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