Do you think Obama's campaign should be sued for defamation of character?

[Auntie Bush]

I do! Before you say it was OK because it was the truth...that's in the mind of the beholder and hasn't been proved...other than internet and DU ravings. It's a term about her that will be repeated over and over. That's a defamation of character...and very inappropriate considering who she was talking to.

[lisa58]

1. do you mean defamation?

[Auntie Bush]

21. Yup...blame it on spellchecker and glasses not handy.

Guess that's what I get for being to lazy. My bad!

[NYCGirl]

2. If you mean "defamation of character", NO. NT

[polichick]

3. Good grief - after the dirty tricks of the Clinton campaign???

[madaboutharry]

4. What is "deformation" of character?

I think you mean "defamation." :)

[SoFlaJet]

De-FORM-ation? yes

they picked the wrong form-not a monster a medusa

[tekisui]

5. No.

The word monster connotes something wrong; e.g.: a monstrous being is: very morally objectionable.

[jakem]

6. her character is already deformed....

[seabeyond]

7. you are sad. and your party gleefully advocate dirty politics, what a hypocrit n/t

[scheming daemons]

8. Right after Hillary's campaign is sued for pushing the "Obama is a muslim" story...

...

[pampango]

9. Perhaps for definition of character. n/t

[otohara]

10. Looney Tunes

how absurd!

[KAZ]

11. So that's how her character got "deformed".

HRC. The R stands for Rodan.

[angie_love]

12. kooooooooo kooooooooooooo

:crazy:

[MadAndy]

13. What character?? Actually, I would love to see them do it.

The fallout would be spectacular.

[liberalhistorian]

He has a lot more reason to sue Hillary's campaign

than vice versa, a LOT more. Let's see, she's smeared him with drug user/pusher (FALSE!), Muslim (FALSE!), Madrassa-educated (FALSE!), etc., etc. It's been nothing but nonstop smearing and dissing from her and her campaign and she has the unmitigated goddamned gall to claim this? What utter and total bullshit. Fucking crybaby. Is she gonna use her crocodile tears to pander yet again now?

And she claims to be able to handle RW tactics and smears, but she can't take anything at all from Obama? Good fucking grief. She ain't a Queen and she's not automatically entitled to the nomination like she thinks she is and like she claimed she would be. Candidates have the right to run against her and people have the right to vote for other candidates besides her. All of this is nothing more than sour grapes that she can't just cakewalk to the nomination. I mean, what does she think this is, anyway, a democracy?

[blogslut]

14. No

Monsters aren't real.

[tabatha]

15. She apologized. She resigned. She expressed regrets.

One cannot sue on that basis.
Do you know anything about the law?

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. Rather sue for negligence. Slander is protected speech in a campaign.

[MrCoffee]

17. No.

[lligrd]

18. Of Course, Sue For "Deformation" Of Character On The Basis

that is was sexist and hurt the monsteress' feelings.

[onenote]

19. Is this post a joke?

I hope so. Because if its serious, somebody must be off their meds. Assuming that you mean "defamation" before you make a statement like "that's defamation of character" you actually ought to learn something about what you are writing about. It wasn't defamation, no court would ever hold it to be so in a million years, the "campaign" couldn't be sued for what one of its volunteers said in any event, and you have succeeded in doing only one thing -- making yourself out to be a know-nothing fool.

Sorry, that's not defamation either.

[AZBlue]

20. (1) If they did, they'd be counter-sued about 100 times for all the filth they've spewed.

(2) They can't be - Hillary Clinton is a public figure and can't sue over a label or description of her.
(I've left out #3 - that nothing that was said was untrue - because #2 makes it a moot point.)

[Coexist]

22. decoration of characters?

[lapfog_1]

23. Hillary is certainly a deformed character! - n/t

[ingac70]

24. Deformation of character?

[NeedleCast]

25. Deformation?

I'll take things that are unintentionally funny for 1000, Alex.

[Zachstar]

26. That is yalls whole Campaign isnt it?

LAWSUIT LAWSUIT LAWSUIT SUE SUE SUE!!! I NO WIN!! WAAAAAAAAA SUE SUE!!!


Oh and BTW I know the laws regarding such as I have had to fend off Slanderous attacks before. If Clinton EVEN thinks about trying that Obama can sue her for SO MUCH MORE!!!

She will not do it because she isn't stupid enough to go for yet another threat of lawsuit when everyone is all over her about it.

And if Clinton wants to sue me for saying that in my view she is a monster? She can go ahead! I will relish the chance to aid her political destruction! Keep in mind that Cluster Bomb vote, IWR, The rape trial she was disgustingly involved in (in my view), NAFTAgate and all that bullshit can be talked about as it pertains to the use of "Monster"

It wont fly with me! It wont fly with Obama! And it sure as hell wont fly with the voters!

[ronnykmarshall]

27. Oh for god sakes!

Drop it!

[Mooney]

28. What the fuck are you even talking about?

I swear to god, some of these posts today read like they were written by drunks.

[Bluerthanblue]

29. Hillary really doesn't want to go there-

Proving that she isn't what Ms Powers' opinion of her stated, may prove more difficult than you'd think.


peace~

[AngryAmish]

30. Here is the money the campaign wants

[Window]

31. Sure, as soon as they pony up for calling Obama

Osama, Ken Starr, Carl Rove, muslim smears, outright lies, etc.

Bring it on.

[The Stranger]

32. Wow, this could be the most idiotic post I have ever seen on DU.

Please, just go away now.