NAACP blasts bogus pro-Obama email

Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP's national board of directors, denounced a bogus email that was sent under his name that listed 10 reasons why people should vote for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The email, titled "Your 10 Reasons to Choose Barack Obama Over Hillary Clinton," began showing up in the emails of journalists and other people last week. The email cities Obama's electability, message of change and Clinton's vote to authorize the war in Iraq as some of the reasons to vote for Obama.

NAACP officials said they found out about the email only a few days ago.

"I did not write the '10 reasons' and have not and will not support or oppose any candidate or Party for President," Bond wrote in a message on the NAACP's Web page. "The NAACP is studiously non-partisan and does not engage in partisan politics. This is a political dirty trick and a fruad, calculated to confuse."

Clinton campaign officials said they became aware of the email about the same time the NAACP did. Both Clinton's campaign and the civil rights organization said they have no idea who authored the email. 

Comments

[billjpa]

How about at least a passing comment regarding Mccains vote re Waterboarding? ya think thatconstitutes a "Flip Flop"?

[Patricia]

Clintons' Terror Pardons By DEBRA BURLINGAME February 12, 2008; Page A17
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277819085260827.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.128055

Obama need to read

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aaad0724-dd13-4ffa-810b-d5d3220ff055

To: elziew@hotmail.com; EBREWERI@depaul.edu; richard.king@emich.edu; crixter@sbcglobal.net; williewjammer@charter.net
Subject: The Crumbling House of Clinton against Obama Momentum
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:07:33 -0500
From: mojo826@aol.com

Brothers,

I'm loving it! Still to early to celebrate! But I love what I am reading, such as, arch-conservative Bill Kristol, who has a very interesting analysis prior to Obama's sweep in the Potomac Primaries which proved right on. Enjoy!

Brother Joe

February 11, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Obama’s Path to Victory

By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Last summer, George W. Bush told The Washington Examiner’s Bill Sammon that Hillary Clinton would probably be the 2008 Democratic nominee. “She’s got a national presence and this is becoming a national primary,” he said. “And therefore the person with the national presence who has got the ability to raise enough money to sustain an effort in a multiplicity of sites has got a good chance to be nominated.”
This seemed a reasonable judgment at the time. It may still turn out to be right. But today Barack Obama is neck-and-neck with Clinton in the national polls — and he’s shown a greater ability to raise money. After his strong showing over the weekend, it is Obama who now has the clearer path to his party’s nomination.
I’ll avoid a false precision in the numbers that follow. There are minor differences among news organizations in projecting delegate allocations in states that have already voted, and in counting preferences among the 796 elected officials and party leaders — the “superdelegates” — who vote according to their choice, not voters’ instruction.
Obama leads Clinton by roughly 70 delegates among about 2,000 chosen so far in primaries and caucuses. (There are still about 1,200 delegates outstanding.) Among the superdelegates, Clinton is ahead by about 100 superdelegates among the 300 who have declared a preference (though any of them can change their mind, so a count of them now is in large measure premature). All in all, Clinton seems to be slightly ahead.
She won’t be for long. On Tuesday Obama is expected to prevail in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. So around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, television networks probably will be announcing, for the first time, that Barack Obama holds an unambiguous delegate lead.
His lead in votes — which is already in the neighborhood of 200,000 — will probably have widened. And Obama should be able to increase those delegate and popular vote totals on Feb. 19, when Wisconsin and Hawaii go to the polls.
Next comes March 4, when Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island vote. Clinton’s campaign believes Ohio and Texas will constitute her firewall. Will it hold?
I suspect not. Obama will have momentum. He will likely have more money than Clinton for advertising. His ballot performance among Hispanics and working-class whites has generally been improving as the primary season has gone on. He intends to push a more robust economic message that could help him further narrow the gap among lower-income voters. And an interesting regression analysis at the Daily Kos Web site (poblano.dailykos.com) of the determinants of the Democratic vote so far, applied to the demographics of the Ohio electorate, suggests that Obama has a better chance than is generally realized in Ohio.
As for Texas, look for a couple of possible endorsements to help Obama there. If John Edwards campaigns for Obama in East Texas, and Bill Richardson defies the pleas of Bill Clinton and travels across the border from New Mexico to help out, Obama could prevail.
If Obama wins Ohio and Texas — or even wins one — he’ll be in good shape. He should take Wyoming on March 8 and Mississippi on March 11. Then there’s over a month until the next contest, in Pennsylvania on April 22. That stretch of time could be key. It could be the moment for many of the uncommitted superdelegates to begin ratifying the choice of Democratic primary voters, and to start moving en masse to Obama.
Many of these superdelegates are elected officials. They tend to care about winning in November. The polls suggest Obama matches up better with John McCain. And the polls are merely echoing the judgment of almost every Democratic elected official from a competitive district or a swing state with whom I’ve spoken. They would virtually all prefer Obama at the top of the ticket.
All of this will move the superdelegates to Obama — perhaps as early as just after March 4, or perhaps not until April 22, or perhaps not even until the last match-up on June 7. But the superdelegates will want to avoid a situation in which they could be in the position of seeming to override the popular vote, or of resolving a bitter battle over whether and how to count votes from Florida and Michigan, at the convention.
And there are, as a final resort, two super-superdelegates (so to speak) who would have the clout to help Democrats achieve closure: Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi.
If they stepped forward at the right time, they would earn the gratitude of their party. And they might also enjoy contemplating a derivative effect of their good deed — the fall of the house of Clinton.

[yvonne g. davis]

I believe Hillary Clinton's campaign is picking up steam again and will win Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. I also believe that the delegates from Michigan and Florida will be seated at the November convention. The time is right in history for the first woman to be elected president.

[yvonne g. davis]

I believe Hillary Clinton's campaign is picking up steam again and will win Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. I also believe that the delegates from Michigan and Florida will be seated at the November convention. The time is right in history for the first woman to be elected president.

[Howard Cossman]

I WANT A PRESIDENT WHO REPRESENTS ALL AMERICANS

Here is Pastor Wright's 'Black Value System'
posted at his website. This is what Barak Obama
pledged an oath to for the past 20 years:
http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html

Pastor Wright gave Louis Farakan a life time
achievement award. Here is what Louis Farakan believes:
Posted at his own website.
http://www.noi.org/muslim_program.htm