Action: Stop Bogus Story re Obama Paying Clinton Debt

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 3:48 PM PDT

2008/05/09 · 15:48

Thomas Edsall at the Huffington Post has now written a second very misleading story that is simply spreading false rumors about Obama paying the Clinton debt. Obama is now all but officially the head of the Democratic party and it is time for us to get together behind him. Inflammatory and misleading stories like this one are not helping. This is New York Post quality journalism. I am really beginning to question the reliability of Huffington Post.

Below is my e-mail to Mr. Edsall explaining why his story is so misleading. Please join me in asking him to stop manufacturig these bogus controversies.

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 6:41 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 18:41

There has been some heated discussion about whether or not the Obama camaign should pay the debts of the Clinton campaign. I agree with many others that there is no justifciation for transferring funds from the small donors of the Obama campaign to the exceedingly wealthy Clintons.

However, as it turns out the controversy has been generated from an incredibly misleading story at the Huffington Post

I explain why the entire cotreversy is bogus below with an e-mail to Thomas Edsall, the man who started the rumor. Please take the time to send an e-mail of your own to let him know that we expect better.

katieforeman

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 8:42 AM PDT

2006/07/09 · 08:42

Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit "An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget deficit this year, even though spending has climbed sharply because of the war in Iraq and the cost of hurricane relief." NYTimes July9, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/...

katieforeman

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Friday July 07, 2006 · 6:54 AM PDT

2006/07/07 · 06:54

Got your attention. That's the point. Enough about the New York Times. These are the types of headlines we could be reading if Democrats took the offense on national security. I'll explain how below the fold, but these quotes should give you an idea of where I'm going with this.

9-11 Commission Report, p127:"Worst of all, al Qaeda's senior leadership had stopped using a particular means of communication almost immediately after a leak to the Washington Times [referring to the 1998 leak]. This made it much more difficult for the National Security Agency to intercept his [osama bin ladin's] conversations."
p196 Bob Woodward's Number One Bestseller Bush at War:"In a PRIVATE (my emphasis added) meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Bush showed how much he was following the signals intelligence, especially on bin Laden. `We know Osama bin Laden called his mother,' Bush told the Emir. `One of these days, he'll make the mistake, and we'll get him.'"

Now after reading this last quote from Woodward's number one bestseller does anybody think that OBL called home for Mother's Day this year?
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FL &PA: GOP dirty tricks aimed at students

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Saturday October 30, 2004 · 12:03 PM PDT

2004/10/30 · 12:03

2 examples of the GOP using the same voting scam on students in FL and PA. Please alert any college students you know.

From Public Radio International's program To the Point with Warren Olney on 10-12-2004:

Ian Sanchow (sp?) Supervisor of Elections for Leon County Florida (includes Tallahassee)

Another activity that we found in Leon County were that individuals were going up to students waiting at the bus stop at FAM U and TCC and asking them if they'd like to sign a petition to legalize marijuana, something that was clearly targeted to young people when they gave their info to the pollsters they received voter registration card that switched their party to the Republican party or in some cases and this happened to my step-daughter she filled out this same petition in Orlando and she was re-registered to vote in Orlando despite being an absentee ballot voter of Tall and her party affiliation was changed so someone is really trying to sow confusion in the one group that confusion could have a negative impact and that is inexperienced young voters and African- American voters.

katieforeman

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Tuesday October 12, 2004 · 3:41 PM PDT

2004/10/12 · 15:41

This story was originally posted in the comments by understandinglife who had hit the limit already on diary entries. Highlights from a letter signed by close to 700 foreign policy experts: We, a nonpartisan group of foreign affairs specialists, have joined together to call urgently for a change of course in American foreign and national security policy. We judge that the current American policy centered around the war in Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam period, one which harms the cause of the struggle against extreme Islamist terrorists. One result has been a great distortion in the terms of public debate on foreign and national security policy--an emphasis on speculation instead of facts, on mythology instead of calculation, and on misplaced moralizing over considerations of national interest. [1] We write to challenge some of these distortions.

Worse, American actions in Iraq, including but not limited to the scandal of Abu Ghraib, have harmed the reputation of the U.S. in most parts of the Middle East and, according to polls, made Osama Bin Laden more popular in some countries than is President Bush. This increased popularity makes it easier for al-Qaida to raise money, attract recruits, and carry out its terrorist operations than would otherwise be the case.

http://www.sensibleforeignpolicy.net/letter.html

Factcheckers need of Factchecking too

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 7:52 PM PDT

2004/10/07 · 19:52

I hate to beat up on FactCheck.org because they do important work that the mainstream media tends to shirk--researching and assessing the factual claims of the candidates. However, FactCheck.org is guilty of one of the most annoying and destructive forms of media bias. In an attempt to be objective, FactCheck seems to assume a priori that both sides are equally dishonest. Hence, their compulsion to come up with examples of dishonesty by both sides and present these example as if they are of equal significance no matter what, even going so far as to make up examples of dishonesty when none are readily apparent. Witness what they did to John Edwards.

Here's how FactCheck summarized the v.p. debate:
Cheney and Edwards Mangle Facts (Notice how the title leaves the impression that Cheney and Edwards were equally mendacious.)

"Cheney wrongly implied that FactCheck had defended his tenure as CEO of Haliburton Co., and the vice president even got our name wrong. He overstated matters when he said Edwards voted "for the war" and "to commit the troops, to send them to war." He exaggerated the number of times Kerry voted to raise taxes and the number of small business owners who would see a tax increase under Kerry's proposals." (So far, so good.)

"Edwards falsely claimed the administration `lobbied the Congress' to cut the combat pay of troops in Iraq, something the White House never supported, and he used misleading numbers about jobs." (Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! on both counts!)

Let's look at the jobs accusation first. Here are the Cheney and Edwards statements FactCheck quoted: Read More

Vietnamn-what every Dem, except Kerry, should say

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Tuesday April 27, 2004 · 7:12 PM PDT

2004/04/27 · 19:12

It's been said before- Bush can't run on his record. He has to run on character portraying himself as the resolute War President and Kerry as the spineless flip-flopping career politician.Kerry's heroic military service and Bush/Cheney's lack thereof are incredibly inconvenient facts. Thus, the manufactured Vietnam contreversies for Kerry.

Dems need to take control and focus this argument. This election is not about Vietnam- that was over 30 years ago. People can disagree with Kerry's war protests or things he said after the war. But no one can take this away from Kerry: Read More

The Best 9-11 editorial ever.

katieforeman

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Saturday April 17, 2004 · 8:09 PM PDT

2004/04/17 · 20:09

I've spent a lot of time on Kos tonight trying to prove myself as a Democrat. Hopefully, this post will help. It is the only intelligent editorial I have read so far about 9-11 and it is also extremely hillarious.

Nytimes very humorous and very true op-ed

In my opinion this is the case we need to make against Bush and his indefensible negligence in the lead up to 9-11.

9-11 Urban legend Debunker

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Saturday April 17, 2004 · 11:02 AM PDT

2004/04/17 · 11:02

The 9-11 Commission Statements have debunked three different 9-11 urban legends. Two of these urban legends are damaging to Bush. However, I still think it's important to point out they are false because we don't want to be guilty of spreading rumors and baseless allegations like the ones the Repugs spread about Clinton.

False: John Ashcroft avoided commercial aviation in the summer and fall of 2001 because of the heightened terrorist threat level.

False: Bill Clinton turned down an offer from the Sudanese government to turn over Bin Ladin.

False: The Bin Ladin family was allowed to fly out of the US while all other domestic flights were grounded.

katieforeman

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Monday April 12, 2004 · 7:02 PM PDT

2004/04/12 · 19:02

Despite it's propensity to flip-flop on the issues, the Bush Administration is remarkably consistent in the way it operates. Please give me some of your ideas for before and after comparisons. I think this is a key part of the argument against Bush.
Before 9-11The Bush administration had problems with intelligence. (Yes pun intended.)

Read between the lines. This is why the CIA wrote the Aug 6th PDB.

The Deputy Director and other CIA officials were "frustrated when some policymakers who had not lived through such threat surges before questioned the validity of the intelligence...(p8 Statement 7)"

Although Tenet never criticized his boss publicly, (just like Clarke when he worked for Bush), this statement is telling: "We considered policymakers' questions whether al Qaeda was feeding us this reporting to create panic through disinformation or to test our defenses, but we concluded the reports were real....We grew concerned that so much of the reporting pointed to attacks overseas and noted that one of Bin Ladin's goals had long been to strike our homeland."(p12 Tenet's sworn statement)

Two veteran CIA officers "were so worried about an impending disaster" that they considered resigning and going public. (p8 Statement 7)

After 9-11 The Bush Administration had problems with intelligence. (Yes pun intended.) Read More

9-11 Bush Intelligence Problems

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Saturday April 10, 2004 · 11:28 AM PDT

2004/04/10 · 11:28

Bush has had problems with intelligence (yes pun intended)even before WMD scandels.

Officials at the CIA including the Deputy Director were "frustrated when some policymakers, who had not lived through such threat surges before, questioned the validity of the intelligence or wondered if it was disinformation...," 9-11 Commission Statement 7, p8

Two veteran CIA officers "were so worried about an impending disaster" that they considered resigning in protest and going public. 9-11 Commission Statement 7, p8

Although Tenet never criticized his boss directly in his testimony (just like Clarke defended Bush publicly while he still worked for the administration), this statement by Tenet is telling: Read More

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