A member of
Barack Obama's LGBT leadership council resigned Tuesday
after it was discovered he sent a
disparaging e-mail about Hillary Clinton to
various listservs. In the e-mail, sent March 6, Maxim Thorne
accuses Clinton of political posturing on NAFTA,
revives President Bill Clinton's sex scandals --
including Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones -- and calls
for a full "vetting" of the New York senator's tax returns
and White House e-mails.
"At 3 a.m.,
Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of
all the calls a President gets at different times of the day
and night," wrote Thorne. "Really? So much involvement
- so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was
having sex with Bill? 35 years of experience? When he
was intimidating Katherine Wiley and Paula Jones?
Where was the judgment on the cattle futures and white
water. Do we forget Mark and Denise Rich? This was an
impeached President who lost his licence to practice
law. He committed perjury. They settled with Paula
Jones for the full amount of her lawsuit. I haven't
forgotten and none of us should... Please, we are
going down a nasty road with a nasty, secretive and
proven lying Clinton."
Thorne is the
third flap in the Obama campaign this month, which started
days before the primary contests in Ohio and Texas when the
Associated Press revealed that Obama economic adviser
Austan Goolsbee had told Canadian officials that the
Illinois senator's tough talk on NAFTA was mere
political posturing. On March 7, foreign policy
adviser Samantha Power resigned after calling Clinton
"a monster" in an off-the-record comment to a Scottish
newspaper.
Politico's Ben
Smith calls the Thorne e-mail "another sign of the
anger in Obamaland at the Clinton campaign." (The
Advocate)
