Iowa is getting nasty fast.

I agree this should not be tolerated.

They did the right thing by kicking out the guy.

UPDATE: The Clinton campaign forwards Callanan's immediate response to the email which, though he didn't pass it on to the campaign, reflected his disgust at it:

   From: Ryan Callanan
    Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:49 AM
    To: 'Judy'
    Subject: RE: Meet Barack Obama]

   I've gotten this forward before. It's racist and ignorant. I can't believe that people believe this stuff.

   Ryan

From Ben Smith.

It is great to see them step up, take responsibility, and then take action to correct a mistake and hold someone accountable.   Bush and his bunch could take a lesson from Hillary Clinton on how to lead.

Excellent, proactive swift response on Hillary's part. True leadership in action.

Todd, good comments but when is this site going to take your own advice to heart?  By allowing this site to be a conduit of such sentiment and practices, aren't you tacitly enabling it?  This story comes as no surprise to anyone who has read MyDD over the past month.  

I think we have heard enough of this story. However, I am glad that you wrote about it, but you should have made the notice that Hillary's camp is not responsible for it.

Too many unanswered questions.

Yes, I appears that the sender is a "Judy Rose", a member of Hillary's Women's Leadership Council and the Secratary of Jones County Dems. Her name is listed on HRC's website--more then a random volunteer.

"UPDATE: The email address for the sender is associated online with the name "Judy Rose," and there's a Judy Rose as one of 250 members of Clinton's Iowa Women's Leadership Council."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

none of what you write excuses this. we know what the right will do. that's not the question on the table. its what we are doing

We should make something clear, this is nothing new.  This attempt at a slur has been making the rounds and spinning its wheels since Barack threw his hat into the ring.  It has picked up no traction. It was an embarrassment to the news stations who carried it in the beginning and is now an embarrassment to Clinton  which might result in real damage to her campaign.  Far from being a hint of things to come, the real story is this type of attack will not work in 2008.  People are sick of it, people are more engaged than in the past.  People who try this type of thing do so at their peril.  This doesn't reveal a GE weakness of Obama.  It shows a GE strength that it is hard to find a foothold on him to attack from besides race. Everyone knows he's black, everyone knows his heritage, you can't swiftboat what everyone knows and already accepts.

Sorry, Todd, many of us well-seasoned, over fifty-year-old Democrats,  view Senator Obama, who is now following the Rove playbook, and all his legion of advocates in the MSM and blogosphere, as the epitome of all that was and is hateful about GWB, the last inexperienced full-of-himself candidate who was thrust onto the national scene.

Today the nation is in shambles, and having inexperience, or for that matter having "judgment," still measured by that lack of experience, will not do.

The hate within the Democratic side began with the advisors of Obama and Edwards, egged on by the long anti-Clinton MSM and blogosophere, in the Clinton circular firing squad in Philadelphia, as orchestrated by Messrs. Russert and Matthews.

Those of you ever and always apologetic to Senator Obama in particular cannot spin this fact any other way.

I have an extended family that viewed that debate and the Las Vegas debate which followed.  

Whichever of us were undecided before became quickly disgusted, and now NONE OF US could under any circumstances vote for either Senator Obama or Senator Edwards.  Even in the fall of 2008.

And as life-long Democrats all, each of whom has never voted any other way, that is really telling of just how gut-wrenching has been the impact of the vitriol.

The first rule of any successful Party: do not tear down the Party's sacred cows!

And the Clintons are adored by far too many bedrock Democrats to be torn down.  Much as were the Kennedys and the Roosevelts in the generations before them.

That was the egomaniacal risk the Obama and Edwards campaigns ran when they took that MSM/blogosphere bait.

Their tearing-down of Hillary Clinton will cost her far less in the end than it shall her rivals.  

That rather meaningless state of Iowa notwithstanding (a wash at the beginning of the year and still a wash now), the current polls have not truly aided either Obama or Edwards, even if current results reveal that the negativity has pushed some leaners to undecided status.

Hillary Clinton will become the nominee of the Democratic Party--and rather easily coast to the nomination after the MSM-Rove-Ailes-blogosphere hype on Iowa (although the top candidates there are still likely to end up in a wash).

She is, far and away, the most experienced and with the most political savvy.

But to presume that her prohibitive status as front-runner has somehow changed is absolutely delusional.

The current LA TIMES poll, the current crop of Zogby/Iowa State University/AP and Pew polls show little change in the campaign dynamic from the beginning of the year.

This is not a conventional candidate, that can be defined by precedent.  This is the former First Lady of the United States, married to the most popular politician in the world.

The Clintons have long-established core, institutional support throughout the United States that their current rivals cannot even fathom.

The fact that she is hated by much of the MSM and the blogosphere (dimwittedly so, inasmuch as her long public record as a progressive far exceeds anything in the resumes of either Senator Obama or former Senator Edwards), will mean little in the end.

The Clintons have survived fifteen years of all manner of Right Wing (and so-called Left Wing) attacks, and have always emerged triumphant.

They even survived a near-decade of Inquisition and Impeachment under Ken Starr and company.

The invective they receive on all sides now is kids' play to these well-seasoned pros.

Ultimately, the Clintons will triumph anew because most of their rivals--particularly Obama and Edwards--are political lightweights.

But the hate did not emanate from Senator Clinton.  

This is the route the Obama/Edwards camps decided upon, when their own candidates were moribund, particularly after their dismal performances in Las Vegas.

As is true of all previous negative attacks on the Clintons, such attacks only strengthen their resolve.

But please, cease and desist with your pity for Senator Obama.

The Axelrod attacks initiated on Clinton will hurt the Obama campaign, in the end, truly deeply.  And deservedly so.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/st ory/0,,-7129715,00.html

how lame to just ask the person to resign.  i don't call that leadership.

i know it is a small thing, but if you really disapprove of what a person in your campaign is doing, you fire the person and take responsibility for the action yourself.

As clearly demonstrated on DD ...there are times when passion overcomes sense....

The lesson here...and else where that we,; and campaigns refrain from the impulse of animals
diving for scraps...

The feeble media will do it for us.

We must move beyond the desperation we have become way too accustomed to in our lives.

If we believe in...what we believe in...we have no need to be defensive.

There is certainly nothing wrong to raising objections or attempts to articulate personal views...

Our first response should be on of a skeptic.
We should be beyond pretending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNp79hF-x Zw