Posted on 09/19/2015 2:17:53 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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.”
To put this all in perspective: Once upon a time, the freakin’ FreeRepublic was making fun of Hillary Clinton for spreading the notion that Obama was a Muslim. Let that sink in.
At least with the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor, Clinton supporters can only be accused of playing into a nasty rumor that already existed on the right. But birtherism was their own invention, created by desperate supporters when it appeared all but inevitable that Obama would net the Democratic nomination.
From Politico‘s “Birtherism: Where It All Began“:
The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.
[…] That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
The article goes on to note that the first person to attach his name to the theory was one Peter Berg, a self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who also challenged John McCain‘s candidacy because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
I say all this not to excuse Trump — and the disreputable branch of conservatism he’s now come to represent. But when it comes to politicians tolerating those rumors among their supporters and staff, Clinton’s throwing stones in a glass house.
....To put this all in perspective: Once upon a time, the freakin’ FreeRepublic was making fun of Hillary Clinton for spreading the notion that Obama was a Muslim. Let that sink in.....
Well, At Least They Know Who We Are!!
ROTFL
“...the freakin’ FreeRepublic...”
Hahaha, love it! You pesky Freepers stick your snoot into everything! :-)
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I’m surprised a left-leaning site like mediaite did the same thing as Cruz by showing how Hillary started the rumors.
WHAT sense would it have made for Obama to say to Steffy...”it’s true that McCain has not made an issue of my Christian faith”....?????? NONE!! McCain would never since they were both Christians. That’s why he said my MUSLIM FAITH!!! Because he IS a Muslim and he was glad that McCain hadn’t brought it up!!! The sentence makes NO sense using the term “Christian”.
Where was Obama baptized, if he is not a Muslim?
AND THIS? Bill Clinton and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein flew on Epstein’s private jet in 2002 to meet with the Sultan of Brunei.....one of the richest men in the world. The National Enquirer reported flight logs reveal Epstein — before he was arrested and jailed for soliciting teenage masseuses — picked up Clinton at a Japanese naval airport.
<><> The mega-rich Muslim Sultan of Brunei later donated between $1-5 million to the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.
<><> The Clinton Foundation took $1,250,000 (that we know of)
from Mideast Muslim kingdom--Qatar---(recently exposed as embroiled in FIFA bribery--that could ensnare the Clintons).
<><> The Clinton presidential library in Arkansas lists Muslim Brunei, Muslim Kuwait, Muslim Oman and Muslim Qatar as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million (at the time of research).
<><> The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the 2002 Brunei Muslim donation: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...
<><> Muslim Qatar became the new home of the Gitmo Five via the infamous Bergdahl swap.
<><> Hillary later told Fox's Greta Van Susteren that Muslim Qatar was "not a threat to the US." Hillary never mentioned Muslim Qatar subsidizing the Clinton Library/Foundation.
<><> Hillary's remarks lead some to believe the donation was a payoff....Hillary bribed to defend Muslim Qatar. Perhaps America's ntl security secrets landed in the Muslim kingdom?
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The Clinton Library bills itself as "linking the significance of
a 20th century American presidency with the ongoing
and far-reaching work of The Clinton Global Foundation."
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
No mention of Clinton being impeached and disbarred for lying.
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REALITY CHECK Despite its grandiose self-promotion, The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park---- is just another "Clinton Cash" snake pit.....subsidized by taxpayers,....and some shady foreign characters.
Thems fightin' words, pal.
Its not like it will harm Obama at this point.
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ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!
A little known church group.....
Our Lady Of Perpetual Prevarication
Hussein is a Muslim or....
Hussain Obama is apostate
Since he is alive, he is a Muslim
QED
Freaking? Is that a FR term?
Who first came up with the term “birther”?
They should be recognized for injecting such a wonderfully slanderous term into the American lexicon.
Where was Obama baptized, if he is not a Muslim?
Satan sprinkled some sulfur on him.
LOL! Ain’t that the truth.
FUAG you insufferable snot!
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