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.”
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30% of the public is now convinced that Obama is a Muslim. (His coddling of Islamic fanaticism and the Iran Deal which gives Iran everything they wanted without making any demands on that nation, no doubt all add to this perception.)
Why should Trump defend Obama when Obama would never ever defend Trump? If Obama is really offended, he should put on his big boy pants push Josh out of the way, and speak out personally against that man’s statement rather than sending his flunky out to snidely go attack Trump (who did nothing wrong) and unfairly painted all Trump’s supporters with the same broad brush.
Trump tweeted that he would no more be required to defend Obama’s honor or reputation than Obama would his own.
I agree.
That’s not a candidate’s job.
This would never have come up in the public’s mind at all had not HILLARY brought it up in a massive email campaign in 2008.
Recall her haughty, ”as far as I know…..” when she was asked if Obama was a Christian or a Muslim.
Hardly a defense of Obama.
Still waiting to learn who the guy was who made the Muslims-in-America statement, but this is a start……Guy with the amazing reaction to anti-Muslim talk at Trump rally is actually a Hillary Clinton supporter
Mickey Horne — the guy who sat behind Trump as a guy spoke to Trump about Muslims in America— is a Hillary Clinton supporter.
About the event he asked, ”why would I miss that circus?”
“I realized was how hardcore the people were around me,” he said. “I was almost too afraid to let them know there was a liberal amongst them because they probably would’ve lynched me.”
His reaction is caught on camera at the link above.
Wouldn’t you just love to live in a world, as liberals seemingly do, where your lies have a short shelf life?