Clinton staff knew County Chair was circulating madrassa email, did nothing

[geek tragedy]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/Clinton_staffer_on_antiObama_email_chain.html

But the email thread indicates that along with Hart, a Clinton staffer named Ryan Callanan received the email back on November 21. Filings confirm that Callanan is a staffer, though I wasn't able immediately to confirm his role on the Clinton campaign, and he didn't respond to an email.

To be clear, he was a recipient of the email, like Hart, not the sender; there's no evidence he forwarded it to others on the campaign, or even read it, though I'm asking those questions.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Fucking scumbags.

The whole lot of them.

[geek tragedy]

2. Well, two of them are anyways. n/t

[Dhalgren]

6. Okay. This is a disgusting thing. But if all that happened was that these two

people associated with Clinton's campaign "received" this email, how is this their fault? Not defending anyone, just saying that this doesn't seem to be anything more than that someone sent these two people this email - right?

[cali]

3. inexcusable

if true, but this piece doesn't confirm that.

[cali]

4. delete- damn double click

[tekisui]

5. This is really bad.

I read the email and it's not nice.

Clinton should be ashamed and issue a public apology to Obama.

She is not the best, not the most electable, not the most trustworthy nor the most progressive candidate. Please do not vote for her.

[undercoverduer]

7. So while they are not responsible, they knew about it and let it fester before taking action?

Oh, oh!

[OKNancy]

8. Once again... read the link before commenting

UPDATE: The Clinton campaign forwards Callanan's immediate response to the email which, though he didn't pass it on to the campaign, reflected his disgust at it:

From: Ryan Callanan
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:49 AM
To: 'Judy'
Subject: RE: Meet Barack Obama]

I’ve gotten this forward before. It’s racist and ignorant. I can’t believe that people believe this stuff.

Ryan

[Benhurst]

9. I would certainly hate to be judged by the email I recieve (and ,no,

I think I'll pass on that million Dollars waiting for me in Nigeria); but I do take responsibility for what I send.

I'm not really sure there is a story here.