NYT: Hillary Deputy Campaign Manager E-Mails For Dirt On Obama (e-mail attached)

[TeamJordan23]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/barackemail/

If there was any question whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign was concerned about the rise of Senator Barack Obama, here is a fresh example: A deputy campaign manager for Mrs. Clinton sent an e-mail yesterday, trying to find out about Mr. Obama’s background as a community organizer in Chicago.

The deputy campaign manager is Bob Nash, who served as White House personnel director in the Clinton administration. In March, Mr. Nash left his position as vice chairman of Chicago ShoreBank to join Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
Here is the text of his e-mail, with the addresses redacted:

From: Bob Nash
To:
Sent: Sun Dec 09
Subject: BARACK
HOW ARE YOU ?? I AM FIGHTING HARD >
SECOND ARE YOU PEERSONALLYAWARE OF TH EWORK BARACK DID ON THE SOUTH
SIDE WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION S , ETC ./. BOB
WHAT DI DHE DO AFORE HOW LONG AND WITH WHO ??

PLS TELL BOB HELLO BOB

Bob J Nash
Deputy Campaign Manager
Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
4420 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203

[MADem]

1. No one ever told this guy about how ALL CAPS is shouting, I guess.

This looks like oppo research. But I agree with the original premise, this should have been done a LOOOOOOONG time ago. If this is Mister Nash's job, he should be shitcanned, unless this is an old email that somehow burped up again:

DES MOINES – Presidential campaigns have unlimited appetites for information about their rivals. They track their whereabouts, they study their records and they obsessively follow nearly every movement. By this point in the race, though, it would seem a candidate’s work history would have already been sufficiently combed through.

Apparently not. ...

[Captain Angry]

5. To be fair

An email like that looks like it was sent from a phone.

If it was sent by a person with a normal keyboard at a desk, then we have some computer literacy issues.

[TeamJordan23]

6. Agree, it was prolly sent via blackberry. nm

[MADem]

8. I don't do that crackberry crap! nt

[Captain Angry]

12. There may be about 12 of us left who don't.

There are so many people who type that way on phones / blackberries that you get used to it. I drive my friends crazy because if I do send a text message, it is perfectly punctuated and capitalized. Therefore my responses are a little slower than they'd like.

[EFerrari]

2. Too bad the Obama campaign doesn't have enough EXPERIENCE

to troll as well. :sarcasm:

[Maven]

4. Oh no?

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3820230

[Pirate Smile]

19. Big deal! I don't see a big deal with Hillary's people looking for stuff and I don't see the big

deal in the link either. I read about it earlier on Kos :shrug:

[EFerrari]

27. I stand corrected. n/t

[1corona4u]

3. Looks like bullshit to me...

a professional would never type in caps. Looks like a punk kid sent it.

[ruggerson]

7. How is this digging for dirt?

digging for information, I'd buy, but digging for "dirt" seems to be editorializing.

[MADem]

9. It's clearly oppo research. A bit late, unless the guy is just trying to refresh his memory. NT

[ruggerson]

11. I agree

and oppo research is pretty par for the course for every single candidate.

In this case, the OP lifted the term digging for "dirt" directly from noted Clinton hater Matt Drudge, how has this headlined on his site with similar wording. (The actual NY times piece this refers to is titled(Obama, Under the Clinton Microscope")

[creeksneakers2]

28. It isn't opposition research

It asks for information that is almost certainly in the public record now. Obama wrote a book and there are probably plenty of details there.

Opposition research would want to know if Obama had any dissatisfied former girlfriends from those days, if he hung out with drug dealers, etc.

Why does somebody say hi when conducting opposition research and why do they send an E-mail to the campaign they are targeting asking for information?

Something is up with this one.

[ruggerson]

10. Oh, I see, you're using MATT DRUDGE's headline, thus the word "dirt"

Fascinating.

[TeamJordan23]

13. Wake up. Do you think they were looking for the great work he did as an organizer? nm

[ruggerson]

15. Hey, don't get bent out of shape cause you got caught using a Matt Drudge written headline

when the real headline in the NYT blog is: "Obama, Under the Clinton Microscope"

[TeamJordan23]

18. well when you can make the point to the contrary, the headline is accurate. nm

[ruggerson]

20. I'm sure Republican Matt Drudge thanks you for lifting his words

n/t

[TeamJordan23]

21. And I'm sure you will sleep fine tonight

Dreaming about Hillary becoming President and her great decision for being a Bush cheerleader for the Iraq War.

[ruggerson]

22. Yes, her voluptuousness

puts me right to sleep

[emilyg]

25. dupe

[antiimperialist]

14. This person was looking for information. No reason to call it dirt

If in that information "dirt' had been found, than arguably he had used it.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. 20th dupe today, I believe. nt

[TeamJordan23]

17. Where? nm

[TeamJordan23]

23. I wonder who leaked this?

And I wonder about their allegiance to Hillary.

[ClarkUSA]

24. Wow, was this guy drunk when he wrote this email? I feel like calling him up tomorrow just to ask.

Hopefully, this idiot represents the overall caliber of Clinton campaign talent. Between this and the swift boating madrassa emails, it look as if
Hillaryworld is running scared and desperate of Obama.

[wtmusic]

26. Yes--he has already been selected for Hill's Chief of Staff nt