2008

This post isn't really about leadership, but this crap is so hilarious, I just feel the need to bring it to your attention.

A deputy campaign manager from Hilary's campaign, tech wizard Bob Nash, apparently learned about technology from a Nigerian Prince who needs your help transferring some money and will gladly give you some of it if you help him. Check out the style of his muck raking email:

From: Bob Nash
To:
Sent: Sun Dec 09
Subject: BARACK

HOW ARE YOU ?? I AM FIGHTING HARD >

SECOND ARE YOU PEERSONALLYAWARE OF TH EWORK BARACK DID ON THE SOUTH
SIDE WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION S , ETC ./. BOB

WHAT DI DHE DO AFORE HOW LONG AND WITH WHO ??

PLS TELL BOB HELLO BOB

Bob J Nash
Deputy Campaign Manager
Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
4420 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203

If you supply him with information he will transfer a lump sum into your account TODAY! PLZ SEND CONFIRMATION!

It boggles the mind that in this day and age, this guy is actually in charge of making actual decisions at the Hilary Camp. Clinton would be wise to put him on a small bus back to DC.

Chris Dodd and his small but well liked campaign had been building momentum, day after day, online, in spite of his lack of national recognition. They had been building up a pretty strong netroots strategy and getting the attention of all the major liberal grassroots activists. It's taken time and patience to get this far. And now, in one foul fell swoop, the fine Senator from CT has managed to destroy all the progress and momentum he had, with one careless, idiotic, and utterly ignorant move.

He was the first guest of Old Stupid Bigot Don Imus's new hateful crappy radio show. The premiere's guest.

Sigh. Better luck in 2016.

I'm aware that the rough and tumble of campaigns can make the varying candidates hostile towards one another, that they occasionally must go negative, in order to help themselves and hurt others. It's a cut throat business. I ain't gonna judge a campaign for going on the attack. That being said, it seems Hillary's team has plagiarized a story from the Onion for their latest attack.

Twice in One Day: Senator Obama Tries Rewriting History, Again Claims He Hasn't Been Planning White House Run

At an event in Boston this evening, Senator Obama claimed for the second time today that he is "not running to fulfill some long held plans" to be elected President, contradicting statements his friends, family, staff and teachers have all made about him.

"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for President for at least the last fifteen years. So who's not telling the truth, them or him?" Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said.

In Boston this evening, Senator Obama said: "I'm not running to fulfill some long held plans or because I think it's open to me." In Iowa earlier today, he said: Senator Obama said: "I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for."

But that's not what Senator Obama's teachers, family, classmates or staff say:...

...In third grade, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want To Be a President.' His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga "asked her class to write an essay titled 'My dream: What I want to be in the future.' Senator Obama wrote 'I want to be a President,' she said." [The Los Angeles Times, 3/15/07]

In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.' "Iis Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama's kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, 'I Want To Become President,' the teacher said." [AP, 1/25/07 ]

Someone has lost their mind at the Hilary campaign. This is just straight up crazy. Please, just stop, before you really hurt yourself.

UPDATE: It was all a joke! Mark Penn said, "At the end of a long thing as a joke, the campaign put out that he always wanted to run from Kindergarten. It was a joke!...at the end of a very serious and long release." Right, except right before the end of a long and serious release, you also call him out for wanting to be president in Third Grade. I left out the two other attacks in it, but 50% of this long and serious release is apparently a "joke." Stay out of comedy buddy, it ain't your strong suit.

I truly hope that this stops soon. When stanceless bores like Mitt Romney and Hilary Clinton can join together and critique you with a completely solid and valid argument, you know you are in trouble.

Feel the hopeiness.