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Clinton adviser urged using hurricane to boost Obama's re-election bid
The Guardian ^ | 1/8/16 | The Guardian

Posted on 01/08/2016 10:02:58 AM PST by 5150 FREEPER

One of Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers told her that Barack Obama should use a deadly hurricane to boost his re-election campaign, a proposal that she agreed to pass on to the White House, a new tranche of emails reveals.

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Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend of the Clintons, sent a memo in 2012 presenting a strategy for turning Hurricane Isaac to the Democrats’ political advantage by contrasting it with President George W Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2012; blanco; blumenthal; funerally; hurricaneisaac; hurricanekatrina; isaac; katrina; naturaldisasters; opportunists; sidblumenthat; sidneyblumenthal

1 posted on 01/08/2016 10:02:58 AM PST by 5150 FREEPER
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To: 5150 FREEPER

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

The motto of statists everywhere.


2 posted on 01/08/2016 10:04:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

I still cannot believe that Barry Soetoro is president of the United States.


3 posted on 01/08/2016 10:09:25 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Wasn’t it Sydney who was dispatched to New Orleans to “advise” Blanco through the troubling times?


4 posted on 01/08/2016 10:16:34 AM PST by digger48
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Karma has something really special in the works for Sid Blumenthal.


5 posted on 01/08/2016 10:18:14 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Oddly enough they managed to get the Republican governor of NJ to help.

Gee.


6 posted on 01/08/2016 10:22:39 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Of course Governor Christie helped things along. I will never forgive him for that.


7 posted on 01/08/2016 10:23:32 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Blumenthal evidently cc’d Chris Christie and Candy Crowley on that memo.


8 posted on 01/08/2016 10:30:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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9 posted on 01/08/2016 10:34:20 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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