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• Friday, February 29, 2008 12:39 PM

  @ @KateTex@10:26a.m.

  The costume drama was no the first time that the Clinton camp tried using the Muslim card. Former Senator Bob Kerry (and long time friend of Bill) played it back in mid December.

  From the Times:

  Kerrey continued: “It’s probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. There’s a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.”

  ....So today, CNN’s correspondent John King asked Mr. Kerrey in the SitRoom about those comments:

  Mr. King: Now, senator, you say that at a time when Barack Obama has to go out from time to time in his events and tell people “I’m a Christian. I’m a Christian,” because he thinks there’s a smear campaign going on under the radar about who he is, trying to maybe peel some people away who might get worried about a guy named Barack Hussein Obama.

  So some would say this is cynical — a new Hillary Clinton supporter doing this to try to stir this up again.

  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/kerrey-tries-to-explain-obama-muslim-remarks/

  ......

  Appalling stuff.

  —FreeAtLast Read FreeAtLast's other letters
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