Obama denies ties to anti-Clinton Web ad

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Source: Associated Press

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, Associated Press Writer
52 minutes ago



Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Friday that his campaign had nothing to do with a Web ad portraying his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination as an Orwellian figure.

Nevertheless, Obama declined to denounce the ad, which depicts New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. He said the ad apparently "captured the public's imagination."

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"We had no idea who did it, and that's what we said originally," Obama told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Washington. "It turned out that he worked for a vendor of ours. But he himself said that we had no knowledge that he was doing it."

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"We're not going to be able to control every individual who might decide to put something up on the net," Obama added. "At no point was he on my staff, or did we even know who he was."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_el_pr/obama_ad

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Read the whole article for what Obama said about this matter and other things the author asked him about.

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1. Great way to help your candidate

...not.

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2. I guess I am dense today,

but are you referring to me or de Vellis? If you are referring to de Vellis, I whole heartedly agree. If you are speaking of me, why?
:shrug:

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3. I'm sorry

I was just being lazy...I was writing about de Vellis.

[rebel with a cause]

5. Don't think anything about it.

I thought that was what you meant, but I am a guilt taker. No matter how hard I try, my socialization usually comes through and I feel like I have done something wrong. Silly me!

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4. Why is this controversial?

I candidate's supporter made a video. Even if the campaign knew about it, so what? Is the content somehow objectionable more so than other campaign ads?

[rebel with a cause]

6. For me it isn't really, but others make a lot of it.

I think Bill going out and attacking Obama is much more controversial than this, but then I support Obama and from volunteering in his campaign here in 2004 know/believe he would not do something like this. His campaign was squeaky clean.