Senator Hillary Clinton

The Clinton Fear-Mongering

The Clinton memos leaked to the Atlantic seems to verify that the Clintons -- helmed by Penn -- were actively involved in trying to paint Senator Obama as "foreign".

The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? ... Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?”

And:

Penn, the presidential campaign’s chief strategist, wrote in a memo to Clinton excerpted in the article: “I cannot imagine American electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

I still want to know whether Penn and the Clintons were involved with sending the turban photo to Drudge at the outset of the Kitchen Sink week. That, and was "as far as I know" deliberate or a gaffe?