Obama Advisor caught sending Rovian-type emails (he resigned yesterday). Now we have a

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Wed Mar-12-08 07:05 AM
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Obama Advisor caught sending Rovian-type emails (he resigned yesterday). Now we have a

Edited on Wed Mar-12-08 07:45 AM by rodeodance

thread here on gd-p�making a political statement and -using this 3 am red phone ringing narrative to slime Bill Clinton on the back of the horrible Rwanda tragedy that occurred during his administration. Clinton has said it was one of his highest failures during his administration.

Maxim Thorne, an advisor to Obama resigned yesterday (see below). He was sending out these Rovian-syle emails to listserves.

What the heck is going on here on DU�this was a horrible tragedy�yet, it is being used here--For the sole purpose of dissing Bill Clinton-and UNDERMINING Hillary Clinton's campaign!!!

Yes, Samantha Powers did receive a Pulitzer for her book on this topic. It was richly deserved.
She resigned. Now we see another Obama advisor resign.

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Thorne had to resign today -Obama Advisor GLBT leadership council: Another Yalie Embarrasses Obam
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5025635, Thorne had to resign today -Obama Advisor GLBT leadership council: Another Yalie Embarrasses Obam
Posted by rodeodance on Tue Mar-11-08 05:57 PM

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/03/maxim-thorne-another-yalie-embarrasses-barack-obama.php

Thorne had to resign today from Obamateam (GLBT leadership council: Another Yalie Embarrasses Obama

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Another Barack Obama adviser had to resign today after making incendiary statements about Hillary Clinton. Maxim Thorne, formerly a chief at the Human Rights Campaign and, until today, a member of Obama's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/ Transgender Leadership Council, recently e-mailed a lengthy anti-Clinton screed that began by declaring Clinton "a disaster for the Democratic Party" and 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." Thorne resigned almost immediately after the e-mail surfaced.

Thorne has an undergraduate and law degree from Yale, making him the third Yalie in recent weeks to embarrass Obama with an apparent inability to grasp a fundamental rule of campaign warfare (namely, don't speak freely). Also Yale grads: Austan Goolsbee, who allegedly told a foreign government that Obama was just kidding about his opposition to NAFTA, and Samantha Power, who told reporters that Clinton was a "monster" and that Obama might keep troops in Iraq longer than he's saying on the campaign trail.

By Nick Curran 03/11/08 5:05 PM

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Obama_backer_Clinton_lies_and_stolen_election.html

Another sign of the anger in Obamaland at the Clinton campaign: an email from a member of Obama's LGBT leadership council, Maxim Thorne, to a couple of listservs:

Original email:

From: Maxim Thorne
Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 8:46 pm
Subject: Clinton lies and sleaze

{snip}

��..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 sex with Bill?��.