Posted on 06/13/2008 4:00:48 PM PDT by harwood
.."emails came to me under the email heading of “Michelle Obama [michelle.obama@barackobama.com]. Both emails came to me under the subject line “Fight the smears against Barack Obama” and originated from barackobama.com."
Posted: Friday, 13 June 2008 11:30AM
"We Will Kill You"
Steve Corbett Reporting
corbett@wilknewsradio.com
| Friday, June 13, 2008 In the thousands of emails I’ve received in the year that “Corbett” has been on the air, I have not received a single death threat - until yesterday. “We will kill you when Obama become PRESIDENT OF USA.,” the email reads. “You would see!!!” Most death threats do not result in death. But some do. What makes this threat to kill me all the more mysterious is that it appears to have been sent through Barack Obama’s official campaign website – barackobama.com – the website that sends me official announcements of Obama’s campaign comings and goings. To make matters worse, the email is signed “Michelle Michelle & Axelrod.” I took Axelrod to be David Axelrod, Obama’s Chicago-based chief strategist. Michelle Michelle was odd, but I had received an earlier email yesterday that I also read on the air. That one called me anti-American, added a four-letter flourish and advised me to shut up. That one bore the name Michelle Obama, who is Barack’s wife. Both emails came to me under the email heading of “Michelle Obama [michelle.obama@barackobama.com]. Both emails came to me under the subject line “Fight the smears against Barack Obama” and originated from barackobama.com. I had received an earlier email from the campaign that was legitimate. Also sent from barackobama.com, it alerted me to Obama’s planned campaign stops in Philadelphia. That’s why I figured that the next email that seemingly originated from the same place was legit. But how could I possibly get a death threat from the official Obama website? With all the gushing news about how savvy the Obama campaign is in their high-tech internet ability, how could anybody send an email on the official website that threatens to kill somebody? After asking this question on the air yesterday, I soon received an email of explanation – not from anybody associated with the Obama campaign, through, but from a listener who walked me through the process of sending any email from the official Obama site with any message and bearing any name – including Barack’s. It’s so simple, the email explained, and so stupid. It’s so dangerous, too. I’ve received my share of threats over the years and took one seriously enough to alert Wilkes-Barre police as well as the FBI who launched an unsuccessful criminal investigation. The idea that Obama’s website can be so easily compromised is troubling. That’s why I’m thinking about calling the cops and asking them to try to find out who threatened to kill me as soon as Obama becomes the president. I could laugh and just say that I now have yet another reason to work against Obama winning the election. But I’m not laughing. The emails I’ve been receiving daily about my unwavering support for Hillary Clinton, including a particularly nasty one yesterday from an Obama volunteer in Wilkes-Barre, have become increasingly aggressive. So have some of the calls to my show. Now somebody has gone too far. Obama needs to safeguard his website so this does not happen again to anybody. If I sent the same message I got to the same email address from which it came, Secret Service agents would soon be looking for me – as they should. I need to know who did this. I need to know if she/he or they are serious. I need the sender or senders to know something, as well. I always do my best to protect myself – especially when you threaten to kill me. |
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I would just like to say that the blonde in the grey shirt is hot!
Just call the FBI and report it.
Obama campaign hopes for better Web security.
Is this the same kind of apparently ineffectual 'hope' that Obama is offering his followers for a changed America?
They have an open relay. I just connected, said I was Michelle OBama and sent myself a test email. Lo and behold, I received it alright. All the headers from the OBama campaign email server to boot.
These dummies!
This is why Johnny can't reed
This similarities between the crash in the 30's and now is strikingly apparent. Margin calls coming due, bad loans coming due.
This S"election" appears more about who gets the hoover sucks tag!
You would have thought they would have hired a security consultant by now
Agreed they do look alike and they are acting alike.
As in Corbett Report?
“They have an open relay. I just connected, said I was Michelle OBama and sent myself a test email. Lo and behold, I received it alright. All the headers from the OBama campaign email server to boot. These dummies!”
It’s way beyond my expertise, but I think I have only read that hackers could do such things, not casual visitors.
The attitudes of the women are similar. They want somebody to take care of them. They want to be married to the government
She is plenty stupid enough to do that.
It is so easy to send an email that looks like it came from anyone you wish. The chances are these were spoofed emails from a Hillary nut.
‘They have an open relay.....’
imho, this is indicative of the failure of Obama and his campaign staff to pay attention to details. Several of Obama’s ‘gaffes’.....his reference to 57 states, using the incorrect name of the Florida town where he was speaking.
All of this may seem inconsequential....but, when someone has a pattern of not paying attention to ‘the fine print’, it can lead to big problems....especially, if the someone is the leader of the free world.
I am NOT NOT NOT an Obama fan, but, I hope someone alerts the campaign to this problem.
DO NOT delete it, whatever you do! Could be valuable....
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