Obama embraces yet another lie on the campaign trail..

[KennedyGuy]

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/

"Barack Obama has unveiled a new line of criticism against Hillary: In speeches he's started to point to the allegation made in Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta's Hillary book that the Clintons secretly formulated a 20-year-plan to deliver the presidency first to Bill, and then to Hillary.

"I'm not in this race to fulfill some long-held plan or because it was owed to me," Obama said the other day.

Asked if that were a reference to the Gerth allegation, an Obama spokesperson left virtually no doubt that it was, telling Newsday: "Barack Obama has not been mapping out his run for president from Washington for the last 20 years like some of his opponents."



But the source that Gerth and Van Natta cited with supposed first-hand knowledge of this plan -- historian Taylor Branch -- has since vehemently denied that any such pact existed. "The story is preposterous," Branch told The Washington Post, adding: "I never heard either Clinton talk about a 'plan' for them both to become president."

It's hard to see how the use of Gerth's allegations could possibly play well among Dem activists. Many of them dislike Gerth for his role in "breaking" the Whitewater story and see Gerth's book as an anti-Hillary hatchet job".

[DURHAM D]

1. That is kind of funny since he and his brain (David) have been mapping it for 15 years. n/t

[sunonmars]

2. Oh jesus the Clinton reply to that will be easy and cutting.

At least i served in the senate 7 years before running, you arrived for 1 year and ran for President.

[Maven]

3. And yet he acts more entitled to it than anyone else

His whole campaign exudes the most overblown sense of its own importance that I can ever remember seeing in politics.

[KennedyGuy]

4. The source they used says it wasn't true

do facts mean ANYTHING to the shameless Obama camp?

[maximusveritas]

5. This is old. It's from November 2007

I think TPM is having some issues with their new site design.

But that's an old post as you can see from it being referenced in this November post:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13796.html

[Proud2BAmurkin]

6. That's the same guy who wrote the Kazakstan article yesterday. bwaaa

Obama's grasping man

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Two or three of these and he'll be out of the race

The man does NOT know how to wage political warfare. He is going to get creamed.

--p!

[Tellurian]

9. Obama always comes across as a whiner..running to mommy!

"He is going to get creamed."

I was thinking, he is going to get "canned".

[Clintonite]

8. Same ol shit from mr. smug!

[Bitwit1234]

10. Yep...one of his former workers said that he started his run for the presidency

before he ran for the senate in the state of Illinois. And then after Ryan was MYSTERIOUSLY OUTED, and he knew he wouldn't have any competition they got down to work in earnest. He figured it was time for a democrat and he would get the nod.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Nuff said. Gerth broke Whitewater and claims Hillary planned to run as President

Gerth will lie about anything!

[rinsd]

12. So Obama is repeating a refuted lie propagated by right wingers.

Politics of Hope my ass.