Clinton Volunteer Quits Over Obama Email

[jefferson_dem]

Source: AP

Clinton Volunteer Quits Over Obama Email
Wednesday December 5, 2007 10:31 PM

By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A volunteer Iowa county coordinator for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has resigned after forwarding a chain e-mail that suggests Barack Obama is a Muslim who wants to destroy the United States by being elected to its highest office.

Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ and has never been a Muslim.

A hoax e-mail that has been widely circulated suggests Obama is some sort of Manchurian candidate for Muslims.

Judy Rose, a Clinton coordinator and Democratic Party official in Jones County, Iowa, forwarded it without comment to eight people on Nov. 21. Rose referred requests for comment to one of the recipients, Grace Zimmerman, who serves with her on the Jones County Democratic Central Committee.

Zimmerman said Wednesday that Rose sent it to the members of the committee to ``show people how dirty politics is'' and did not agree with the content of the e-mail.

``Oh heavens no,'' Zimmerman said in a telephone interview. ``She just wanted the people who were concerned with the politics of Jones County to be aware of it.''

Zimmerman said the Clinton campaign never talked to Rose about why she sent it but simply demanded her resignation after another one of the recipients decried the e-mail in a post on the liberal blog Daily Kos.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7129855,00.html

[emilyg]

1. Good.

[itsrobert]

2. He probably felt bad after being forced by the Hillary campaign to forward mudslinging emails

Anybody with a conscience would do the same.

[rodeodance]

10. you really read the post WRONG!!

[DURHAM D]

3. False headline - she did not quit...

Her resignation was demanded by Clinton campaign.

[TheWraith]

15. No no, the Clinton supporters here made clear you can NEVER fire a volunteer!

No matter what they do, you're always obligated to let a volunteer keep working for you unless they choose not to, since they're a volunteer!

Sarcasm, of course. Some people can't seem to get their spin straight.

[kestrel91316]

4. Forwarding that email without comment was either

very stupid or very evil. Either way, she had to go.

End of my comment on this matter.

[superconnected]

5. Glad this came out. Hope Hillary Rodham Bush-Clinton goes down in

ugly politics flames.

[Bitwit1234]

6. Wonder if the people who sent all those emails from Obama's campaign

bashing Hillary got fired or quit. Guess not, Obama probably promoted them, that's the kinda guy he is.....his supporters take right after him.

[Sultana]

7. Did they perpetuate that Hillary was a manchurian candidate for a

particular religion that is seeking to destroy America?

[maximusveritas]

11. Seriously

Just by making that comparison, these Clinton supporters are showing that they don't understand how bad these e-mails are.

[boricua79]

13. yeah, he's bad, and she's all good

Oh wow...I think I have a cough...

Cough, cough...whitewater...cough, cough..

Heavens...I feel like I'm coming down with something...

Cough, cough..."if I knew then what I knew know now, I wouldn't have voted for this war"...cough, cough...

Jesus! Somebody help me...I think I'm choking...

Cough, cough...planting campaign aides at rallies and conferences...cough, cough...


WHoooh....man...I feel ok now. Must have been a case of hypocritis.

[Reno.Muse]

8. an act of desperation

[ClarkUSA]

9. Gee, suddenly, what Bob Novak said doesn't seem all that farfetched, does it?

Hmmm....

[Enrique]

12. Judy Rose got tombstoned

[CookCountyResident]

16. The fact was that she was forwarding it.

What about the author, pray tell?

[TheWraith]

14. Riiiight. "I didn't want to actually shoot someone, your honor..."

"I just wanted the bystanders to know how dangerous guns were."

What a complete bullshit excuse. If it were even remotely true, this person would have DEBUNKED the fucking email instead of forwarding it WITHOUT COMMENT, and WITH the attached notes stating it as being TRUE.