46 blog reactions to http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Obama_backer_Clinton_lies_and_stolen_election.html

—a stereotype he does not fit, but that could be imposed upon him by others. If there’s one candidate who has engaged in “molehill politics” it is certainly Clinton! So true. Barack runs an honest, ethical campaign. He would never—ever!—attack Hillary in such a way because he wouldn’t be Barack anymore. While it’s true that the two remaining Democratic candidates have few substantive differences, they have very different approaches to

went on to question Hillary's whereabouts "when Monica was having sex with Bill" and assert that "when Bin Laden was building Al Qaeda, Bill and she were fighting impeachment, fighting Paula Jones, fighting Katherine Wiley."From Politico: "We cannot tolerate her lies and stolen election," Thorne wrote of [Hillary] Clinton.[...] Do we forget Mark and Denise Rich? This was an impeached President who lost his license to practice law. He committed perjury. They settled with Paula Jones

Leadership Council, Maxim Thorne. Thorne just resigned from the position this week after a garbage email he had sent to some listservs about Sen. Clinton got exposed in the press (and yes, Sen. Obama did distance himself from Thorne's email). You can click here to read the email and a brief story on his resignation. The email is fairly predictable - it is the kind of junk that one generally expects to see in Daily Kos and Free Republic diaries. Outside of the

be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." And I suppose if Obama was a white woman, he would be Hillary. Mark Halperin has updates. Earlier today, a member of Obama's LGBT leadership council, Maxim Thorne, was forced out for sending an email with the subject line: "Clinton lies and sleaze."At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement - so much togetherness. Where was she

comments Saturday and Fox, to reiterate her initial comments. Get this, she actually warns: “(Obama) shouldn’t really antagonize people like me.” Yes, she did. Just wait till G Bitch hears about this … Note: contrast with how Obama handled this situation today. Update II: Via Ben Smith: “If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said. Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.

gay issues front and center in political life in America. One benchmark that can be easily used is comparing our activities as partisan activists to those of other campaigns. Recently, a member of Barack Obama's LGBT leadership team, Maxim Thorne, was forced to step down

coming from both sides, over the next six weeks. It's gone under the radar, because the Obama camp dealt with it in a much faster, better manner, but the Obama campaign faced a similar problem this week when a member of its LGBT leadership team had to resign because of disparaging remarks he made about the Clintons. Dealing with two of these things every week for at least the next six weeks is going to get old very quickly, and it's likely that only a few of the incidents will actually lead to the end of

member of Barack Obama's LGBT leadership council resigned on Tuesday after it was revealed that he sent a disparaging e-mail about Sen. Hillary Clinton that dredged up sex scandals involving Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and others. In the e-mail message dated March 6, Maxim Thorne accused Sen. Clinton of "lying" and stealing and called her a "disaster." Thorne also accused Clinton of "political posturing" on NAFTA. But the most controversial portion of the e-mail message was a response to the Clinton

continues, and the other side is just as dirty. Again, do the Dems want to go down in flames in November? Maxim Thorne is now formerly on the Obama LGBT leadership council after committing these thoughts and hitting the Send button for an e-blast. (Politico, which has the full memo):At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement - so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was having

Today, while waiting for the another Democratic sub-advisor to make his or her next stupid or insensitive public gaffe–oh, whoops–I found my interest piqued by this post from Harry Brighouse at Crooked Timber. Without going too much into the meat of it, I can tell you that the post is a response to a response to an essay in which Simon Blackburn writes: