Adviser urged Hillary to paint Obama as “Fundamentally Foreign”
There’s a bumper sticker for you! Back in March, Hillary campaign strategist Mark Penn knew his candidate was in trouble and urged that Hillary get serious about exploiting Obama’s “citizen of the world” background:
The March 19, 2007, memo included a section titled “Lack of American Roots,” in which Penn recommended making an issue of Obama’s “diverse, multicultural” upbringing. Obama was born in Hawaii and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
Obama’s “roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited,” 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 his values.”
Mmmm…tasty red meat.
Hillary decided to focus on Obama’s inexperience instead, which I suppose was a loser for her since her own executive experience was pretty limited as well and her Senatorial experience wasn’t much longer than Obama’s. (Which is probably why she felt the need to embellish it with dramatic accounts of her perilous trip to Tuzla.)
Had she gone with the “fundamentally foreign” attack instead, we may have had a different slate of candidates today. She didn’t eschew it entirely, though…
Clinton did adopt another of Penn’s suggestions from the memo: that she emphasize that she was born in “the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century.” This would be another way, Penn said, to draw a contrast with Obama’s upbringing “without turning negative” — and Clinton often repeated such phrases on the campaign trail.
I’ll skirt the edges of fair-use to leave you with another Mark Penn gem. It’s too good an insight into what Democrats were really thinking about the empty suit that ended up as their nominee:
Penn recommended invoking the fiery language that the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama’s longtime pastor, had used in sermons.
“Many people . . . believe under the surface that 20 years sitting there with Goddamn America would make [Obama] unelectable by itself,” Penn wrote. “What does that say about his leadership that he never left or complained?”
That convention’s going to be awkward, isn’t it? I can’t wait.
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I’ll bring the popcorn… and pie!
Have a barf bag handy Michelle.
Yeah right 30, I’ve heard that pie story. lol
heh..
every time I see that ‘Citizens of the World’ I hear Cobra Commander’s voice from the GI Joe cartoons..
(it’s been a while since I’ve watched them when i was a little tyke… but still
Obama supporters being forced to volunteer and now this. Yeah, “awkward” is an understatement.
ya think?! duh. rofl.
I don’t count her out yet. She won’t give up until the very end. I’m sure there is alot going on behind the scenes. It will be fun to watch the democratic convention. I doubt I’ll even turn the t.v. on for the republican convention.
aj,
Never give up hope… Odumbo told me so.
Hillary’s Dumocrat strategist seems to have a better plan against Obama than the GOP does. WTF? I personally believe Obama’s “Citizen of the World” crap can be used against him. While that may play well to Europeans who don’t like the USA, I’d bet you dollars to donuts that most Americans want a citizen of the United States as their president — not some self-professed “citizen” of some other geographical or political body, whether it be the World, North America, the Western Hemisphere, Star Fleet, Krypton, etc.
That strategy would have worked, too. I am convinced that many Americans are uncomfortable with him, not because of his race, but because he just doesn’t come across as a regular American. Picture a black candidate from, say, Atlanta, who went to public schools and never left the country until spring break in Mexico during college. A person who attended a mainstream Baptist or AME church, went to a state university — that would be someone most Americans would feel comfortable with.
Clinton was to afraid of the RACIST label to really push obama hard.
I believe that Hillary is having Weird Al Yankovich take David Bowie’s tune “Young Americans” and turn it into “Un-Americans.” They’ll play it whenever they can.
He was the Un-American
Un-American
Un-American
He was the UN-American.
Should be fun…
does this mean you’re going to Change?
Oh and untill the clintons are dead, as certified by at least 3 doctors, with a stake in thier heart, DONT COUNT THEM OUT!!!
More than usual.
I love that all this PC nonsense the Clintons peddled came back to bite them in the butt. They can’t say anything about a black candidate for fears of racism cries, and she did the same thing with gender. Cost her the nomination.
I enjoy a good O. Henry story as much as the next guy.
I hear the city of denver has created large cages for any protesters who get out of the free speech zones. It would be fun to heard the hippies into the cages and poke them with sticks!!! (thats my inner evil overlord coming out again, sigh)
aj, she’s just a tease … forget your ever getting a pie from her …
Wow… GI Joe. Something that un-PC would never fly today. I’m thinking of getting the series on DVD to educate the young-un the way I was educated.
Of course, thanks to you, now everytime I see Obama, I’ll hear the voice of Cobra Commander/Starscream.
Yes! I’ve turned over a new leaf. A pie in every… oh nevermind.
Nice edit chappy, but it works for me both ways.
Yeah, so? For the last 40 years, Rodham’s been so far left she can’t even see the middle. The values and culture she now represents are nothing I want to be associated with.
Pot, meet kettle (I didn’t mention black, though. That would be racist).
Well, one thing we all agree on, ‘no edit on the empty suit part.
My gods guys. Clinton, Obama, whatevery, they are all democrats. I
aj and cpodug …
You know that pie is in the sky,
If you look up it’s in your eye.
sorry … couldn’t leave that one alone this morning …
typing my sucks today man.
Man, if Karl Rove had so much as intimated what Mark Penn put in print – whoa Nelly! – the MSM would crucify him for it for the next one hundred-fifty years!
DBN, yep, same goes for the pelosi wind stock story.
I heard on F & F this morning (or maybe it was O’reilly last night) that some Hill supporters are suggesting that had the Edwards affair been exposed last December when people knew about it, Hillary would have won Iowa. I’m not sure of the logic (as I wasn’t paying attention), but it tells me they aren’t giving up.
And I’m still hearing things about her “people” wanting a roll call at convention. That doesn’t sound like unity to me.
Should be fun.
Shrillary never had her husband’s innate political moxie, and she ran the most inept campaign ever! She was supposed to have been a “shoe-in”, and she was bested by the worst empty-suit ever to run for POTUS!
Mark Penn is honest. When MSM predicted a Kerry Victory in 2004, he is the one predicted correctly.
There is another way to look at this story. Mark Penn wanted her to run a sleazy campaign based on racism and inuendo rather than issues. Hillary Clinton refused. There were places she was not willing to go to become President.
Of only McCain has Hillary Clinton’s scruples and honor. His campaign explicitly questions Obama’s patriotism. His ads show white women giggling about Obama — the “uppity” card.
There’s a story of Eleonore Roosevelt confronted by a flasher. She took a look at him and said: “Sir, you have nothing to be proud of.” We could say the same about McCain’s campaign.
Jbgood, I agree. She and Bill want the White House back, and will stop at nothing to attain it…which is why I am going to be watching every second of their convention! It’ll either be rioting in the streets, or a total whackjob circus…more likely a bit of both! I can hardly wait! I hope undecideds will be watching with as much eagerness as us news junkies. They’ll learn that the Dumocraps are in total disarray, and should not be allowed to be dog-catchers!
See? “Suspending her campaign”; not ending her campaign. I’m telling you, these allegedly “after-the-fact” disclosures are not that at all; they are continued campaigning by HRC.
As an aside, last I checked, Hawaii was among BHO’s “57 states” of the USA, so not sure where Penn was coming with that part.
ROFLMAO!!!! Stop! Please…My sides!!
Yes we know, anything negative about Obama will be called “racism” and some kind of diversion from the “issues” (meaning obama doesn’t want to talk about it). Of course you probably don’t wonder why Obama spent 22 years in a black liberation theology church (think race based marxism). You probably think his involvement with one of the most corupt governments in the country is also a diversion. BTW the only one mentioning race in his campaign is OBAMA.
She suspended her campaign rather than end it so that she could continue to raise funds to pay down as much debt as possible. Edwards “suspended” his campaign too. As does almost every single candidate. Nothing sinister. Sorry.
R-i-i-i-i-ight….OK, chapoutier, if you say so.
No one said “it” was sinister. It’s the Clintons who are sinister!
chapoutier: So let me get this straight, people actualy send money to candidates who have already dropped out of the race? WOW now that is a waste of money.
Use xenophobia? Isn’t that racist?
My collie says:
You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
HA! I bet, if she could do it all over again, she would be diong what Penn suggested…in a heartbeat.
ROFLMAO
Stop…*gasp*…, lgm…*gasp*…I…*gasp*…can’t…*gasp*…breathe…*gasp*…now!
What’s the ‘ism’ for that – uppityism?
I agree
Obama’s supports have produced tons of ads or videos with white girls “giggling” about obama. Remeber the obama girl? now all of a sudden its racist. Typical cowardly democratic hypocrocy.
Chaps right, but you might be also vic…. I think the O-Bomb is gunna hit the fan. imho of course.
upyoursism or upourism
Large cages like the monkey cages at zoos?? Sounds like a fun way to watch protestors. Just don’t get too close to them. Like their monkey counterparts, they may exhibit a habit of throwing stuff at unsuspecting onlookers: )
I have sympathy for what the citizens of Denver are going to be subjected to, but this may be the most entertaining Dem convention to watch since ‘68 : )
The convention will be awkward indeed. Good thing I’ve stocked up on popcorn. It truly will be “Must See TV!”
They are both from Chicago and area, how much more “Fundamentally Foreign” can it get?
Link to the protester cages. All I want is a fire hose and a long stick….
I don’t quite get it either, but they do. Pretty often.
Just don’t get it at Whole Foods or you might die.
America land of multi-culturalism, never thought it was a bad thing. This Convention is going to be destroyed simply because Mrs. Clinton and her supporters don’t get it; The election is suppose to be about pushing your party’s ideals and agenda(the reason you joined a political party in the first place). If you lose, it is only right to help the one in your party get elected. Time for you to start doing that. We don’t need another Carter-Kennedy situation on our hands.
Which is why I registered independant. This actualy meant I couldn’t vote in the republican primary but could in the democratic one.
you guys know the story,
a fool and his money are soon parted.
Yes, : )
Then again the people of Denver did vote for Mayor GreenSox.
Entertaining indeed.
wow… this whole thing looks like Operation Chaos II and they’re doing it to themselves! And with PUMA stirring up the pot it… it… *sniff* brings a tear to the eye… America is finally starting to heal!
Actually I think cattle have better manners. They generally keep their Sh#% to themselves rather than throwing it at the rancher.
This is going to be more fun to watch than a tree full of protesters.
So any word on if dumpster diver (or whatever her name is) from Berzerkley is going to attend? Probably hitch hiking her way to Denver as we speak.
Funny i was thinking of dumpster muffin as well…
How much model glue do you sniff to make that leap?
What’s the difference? Clinton era flunkies er ah advisers are on both teams.
Go PUMA’s!
And if the ad used black, asian, indian, etc etc., then what genius?
You libs are looking for something that isn’t there.
Wait until the nets start coming out with stories that the McCain campaign encouraged Shakashvili to send troops to South Ossetia. His campaign manager is an employee of Shakashvili. Wait until the nets start reporting that Bush encouraged the Russians to enter South Ossetia to protect the citizens from Georgian troops.
lgm,
“Starting a war” worked out so well for Republicans in the past, right?
*rolls eyes*
Uh oh…..lgm’s off his meds again
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy can’t tell jokes THAT funny!
A Clinton critizing ANYONE as not being a loyal American!?!?
They’re not THAT funny, either!
DaveC…do you hear Cobra Commander or Ronald Reagan? Or do you get those two confused? Shameful if you do.
These, vicki?
Mmmm Hmmm, Barry, that’s what I was thinking.
just imagine what he has in store for all of us if/when he is elected prez if this is how he treats his supporters…it won’t be pretty…
Well, I’m anticipating a knock on my door from his storm troopers telling my I have a mandatory stay at one of his re-education facilities in my area. Perhaps some of his seasoned tenured volunteers will tend to my indoctrination.
DaveC…do you hear Cobra Commander or Ronald Reagan? Or do you get those two confused? Shameful if you do.
Ok, I’ll wait. Did Senator McCain kill Cock Robin and pushed ole Humpty Dumpty off of that wall, huh? huh? Tell us about Fort Marcy Park. Did McCain do that too?
Right at the moment I am waiting for the Storm Troopers from either side to arrive; neither of these two men are terribly committed to the Constituion. We are just hoping Johnny Mac is somewhat less dangerous than Ibraheim’s favorite son.
Jonathan Goodman sends his best.
Enjoy shria
Have a nice Jihad
Be a good dhimmi
Try to not let them castrate you, nasty habit they have. They did it to thousands of Sudanese Christians.
On August 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm, vickisoup said:
Whaddya mean, again?
LGM, I recommend a nice triangluar shape for your tin foil hat, it reflects the neo-con/zionist mind control rays so much better…
ROFL!!!