Let’s see, reeling from gaffes, training in the polls, what do you do? Check the playbook, page 13 and… call Republicans racist!
Just. Like. Clockwork. But this time… it didn’t QUITE Go according to plan.
It’s the one thing about Hillary people can actually depend on!
She brought out her big guns… And we watched them fizzle.
What was the lie? It was the lie that Donald Trump was racist because he wanted to see the birth certificate.
She thought she’d have him on the ropes, what with all the help she gets from her pet media outlets. If you missed the story, you can find it here.
The claim is that ‘birtherism is racist’. Do you still think so, Hillary? Because it was YOUR team’s idea:
What evidence do you want? There’s this:
#CNN says #Hillary team in 2008 never raised #birther issue. #SidBlumenthal, long-time #HRC buddy, told me in person #Obama born in #kenya
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016
#CNN says #Hillary team in 2008 never raised #Obama's birth in #Kenya. Who is closer to #HRC than #SidBlumenthal, who told me face-to-face.
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016
There’s Chris Matthews:
#CNN says #Hillary team in 2008 never raised #birther issue. #SidBlumenthal, long-time #HRC buddy, told me in person #Obama born in #kenya
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016
The Daily Wire put together a particularly damning list of evidence, here is a sampling:
Yes, in order to shield Hillary, America’s entire political media, thousands of so-called independent journalists across dozens of “competing” news outlets, are coordinating to remove the definitions of Birtherism that Hillary is clearly guilty of. This includes, smearing Obama as a Muslim, her campaign’s stated goal of questioning his “lack of American roots,” her focusing on Obama’s exotic “foreignness”; and yes, the questioning of Obama’s place of birth.
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1) In 2007, a full year before anyone would know the name Orly Taitz, Hillary’s chief campaign strategist Mark Penn would craft a wide-ranging strategy memo that included questioning the very American-ness of then-Senator Barack Obama, who was even then seen as Hillary’s chief rival for the nomination.
The Atlantic:
[Penn] wrote, “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” Penn proposed targeting Obama’s “lack of American roots.”From Bloomberg’s 2012 article: “The Democratic Roots of the Birther Movement”
Penn also suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. “Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century,” he advised Clinton. “And talk about the basic bargain as about [sic] the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child, and that drive you today.” He went on: “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t … Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds [of campaign events].”
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3. Hillary Clinton’s Own Campaign Distributes Obama-Is-A-Scary-Muslim Emails
PolitiFact:
In the fall of 2007, it was clear that Clinton was losing ground in Iowa. The presumptive front runner was vulnerable and people in the campaign knew it. On Dec. 5, 2007, the online magazine Politico posted the text of an email that had been forwarded by Judy Rose, the volunteer chair of the Clinton campaign in Jones County Iowa on Nov. 21, 2007. The email was a quintessential smear that offered a distorted biography of Obama’s early years. Rose offered no commentary on it. She simply passed it along.
“Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim,” the email said, and it ended with, “The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the U.S. from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level – through the President of the United States , one of their own!!!!”
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5. A Second Hillary Campaign Staffer Sent a Similar Email
PolitiFact:
A few days later, a second volunteer in a different county stepped down when it was learned that she had forwarded a similar email in October.
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7. The Obama Campaign Blasted Clinton Over the Obama-In-A-Turban Photo
You all remember this photo, correct? No less than Barack Obama believes it was Hillary who released it.
The Guardian:
Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, described it as “the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election”. Obama has had to spend much of the campaign stressing he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrassa. …
Plouffe described circulation of the picture as part of “a disturbing pattern.” “It’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties,” he said.
Daily Wire
There’s more in that list. Lots more. Check it out.
Ok, so ‘Birtherism’ is Hillary’s baby.
She ‘birthed it’, and now she wants to abort it, or give it away for someone else to deal with the consequences.
Not so fast.
She claimed that it’s racist to smear Obama with that question.
That’s a great question! Here’s a folllow-up question.
Was it racist to emphasize Bernie was Jewish? Because your team was ready to play that card too.
How many political hatchet ‘Smear stories’ like this does it take to establish a pattern?
This pattern has two implications, and Hillary will hate them both.
1) She slanders people who stand in her way, and any other slander can be waved off as a meaningless political ploy. Politics of personal destructin are her bread and butter. Don’t give them any oxygen.
2) She HERSELF needs to be scrutinized as possibly racist, and the accusations of her being a ‘bigot’ who only likes certain voting blocks for the votes they bring, not who they are as people.
