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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The media's favorite punching bag, Hillary Clinton, is catching flak for her campaign manager's past ties to a subprime mortgage lender, Delta Financial. Newsday reports that Maggie Williams served as a Delta director from April 2000 until December 2007, earning about $200,000.Williams joined the Clinton campaign in February.The national media have yet to report that Barack Obama supporter and, er, speechwriter, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, was a member of the board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest Mortgage, a predatory subprime lender that was sued by attorneys ...
UPDATED BELOW 1:00 PM. UPDATED AGAIN 6:30 PM The Drudge Report flash this morning claims that the Clinton campaign is sending around an email with the picture on the left. This picture, taken in 2006, is of Barack Obama in Kenya during a five-country tour of Africa, donning the garb of a Somali elder while stopping in his father's native Kenya. The Clinton team, obviously taking advantage of the internet-based fearmongering about Obama's paternal ties to Islam, has not denied putting this out, but as of this writing has not offered any comment. The Obama camp reacted quickly (via ...
On his blog today Andrew Sullivan points out that Mark Silva of the The Swamp dropped a few interesting details about the departure of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, into his coverage of Barack Obama's win in yesterday's Maine caucus. Silva's source indicated that Solis Doyle was on borrowed time since Iowa and had been spared being replaced earlier because of Senator Clinton's victory in New Hampshire. Silva writes: [E]ven more problematic was the campaign's money crunch. Over the last seven years, Clinton had raised $175 million for her reelection and her presidential ...
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