Please, let the people vote.  Encourage them to vote.  Please.

Hillary says aliens landed in Roswell N.M in 1947.

I'd like to know if this is true, Hillary!!

Thank you for this diary. Every vote COUNTS!

You received an email that fits perfectly with the narrative of voter suppression you floated in comments earlier today?  Really?

What, Obama is asking for donations instead of asking people to get out the vote in this one particular email?  Obviously that means he is trying to SUPPRESS THE VOTE!

Get back to me with evidence of real voter suppression, like telling people the wrong day to vote, or giving them the wrong voting location, turning away voters with BS reasons, etc.

people voting.

Some of them vote for Her.

Didn't we just dismiss these allegations when they targeted black voters in NC?

But an Obama fundraising call...that's the REAL culprit!

A great new diary by ragecage points out that Obama has gained another 26k votes in PA, on the provisional ballots. If Hillary wins by 20 per cent in Kentucky, this is probably around the same 20-30k value.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/9/20244 4/9806

I'm not buying the voter suppression argument, and everyone ought to be aware that the Kentucky vote, even if it's a landslide, will barely change the updated popular vote.

Look, if this is true, it's probably the work of scam artists.

Or, wearing my tinfoil hat for a second: Perhaps they are McCain supporters looking for a new way to collect "donations" to the McCain campaign /snark

Teh horror!

I have read many a retarded post on this website. However, this one may take the cake. It even tops alegre for sheer obfuscation. Here is the text of an e-mail I got today from the Obama campaign:

"The West Virginia primary is coming up on Tuesday, May 13th, and we have an opportunity to secure some of the final available delegates and move a big step closer to the nomination.

We can't do this without your help -- and you can make a difference right from your home.

Our team has put together a list of the potential supporters here in West Virginia whom we most need to reach by Tuesday. Your voice could persuade them to cast their votes for Barack -- but only if you use our simple online tool right now and give them a call. "

Yeah, can't you just smell the voter suppression?

And another thing, voter suppression is when you try to bring down the opposition's vote totals.  Where in that email does it even HINT at targeting Clinton voters?  At worst, Obama isn't focusing on bringing out his own voters, but that hardly helps him, does it?

Delete this diary.

Please only answer if you're a genuine, passionate Hillary supporter.

If Obama wins the nomination, are you for or against an Obama/Hillary ticket, and why?

This is not trolling. I really want to know the answer.

Another diary full of

I'm impressed! Usually, the primary actually has to take place before the vote suppression/fraud/stealing charges can fly. It's nice to see Clinton supporters getting a jump on things!

-Ben

the "voter supression piece" is the insisting the "race is over" when its not.  This is unfortunately a common Obama campaign tactic.

And the nerve of asking people for money when he is not in the state campaiging, when he knows he will lose by 30 points or more.

I hope this backfires on him, and certainly this kind of stuff, and the more egregious examples of intimidation and misinformation, can be presented to the supers as they weigh their choices.

Seems to me with all this "Obama has won the nomination" press, and Rasmussen not even caring to poll the Democratic race anymore, why do all the Obama supporters have their shorts riding up their asses?  There are a LOT of pissed off people here, hurling insults at everybody and everything.  The last time I checked Hillary Clinton was still running for President, and until she says anything different, her supporters are sticking with her.  Please deal with that.

First Obama never asks for more than $100. I have been an Obama supporter for a long time and I have never gotten a call for a donation. My sense this is a third party scam for money.

And rather than telling us about contact your secretary of state a inform them.

I  am also highly suspect of third hand info off of email list around election time.

But again have your friends contact the secretary of state it should be investigated

Wow.  So much for hope & change.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community /post/stateupdates/gGB9c7

Shame on you Barack Obama! Shame on you!! Meet me in West Virginia!  

If you were an honest man, you'd supress the voted in Oregon or Puerto Rico where the popular vote is higher! Not WV!  Shame on you Barack Obama! lol

Earlier today when, in TD's earlier W. Virginia diary, I asked a perfectly normal question one asks about elections -- what do people think the turnout might be -- TD accused me of supporting voter suppression.  So that is the kind of intellectual honesty we are dealing with here.

Probably the most bizarre part of this e-mail is the idea that Obama voters would tell people they didn't need to vote.  This is the campaign that has been brilliant at organizing voters and getting them to vote. Obama got his start in politics doing a voter registration project. So now they would just give that up?  

BTW, in my little swing state, tomorrow -- almost six months before the election -- two paid Obama staff will be initiating a voter registration drive in the area.  

Yep, these folks fit the profile of those who don't want people to vote.  

And what's with the ask of $400 freakin' bucks?  Who gives $400? (Not me. I don't own a silver BMW nor have a $350/hour accountant like a certain someone.)

A $400 donation?  That doesn't sound like an Obama call and of all places to do this, WV?  I doubt it.  He'll take any and all donations, he's not like the Fraternal Order of Police, where you can only donate certain amounts.

A $400 donation?  That doesn't sound like an Obama call and of all places to do this, WV?  I doubt it.  He'll take any and all donations, he's not like the Fraternal Order of Police, where you can only donate certain amounts.

There is no concrete evidence (link, transcript, recorded message, verifiable sources) to make your point.  More of an assertion then fact at the moment.    

Let's start with what email list you got this from?

Could we also have a copy of the entire email including the header info? You can delete out your personal information.

Then I'll be happy both to investigate as much as I can and also forward this to the Obama campaign for investigation.

I'll check back in the morning to get your response.

I mean, c'mon people!  Are some of you this naive as to believe this is true?  Because if so, I have some bridges for sale!

texasdarlin, you are the kind of person who (1) actually believed Obama gave Clinton the finger, (2) engages in a bigoted whisper campaign about Obama's scary Muslim past and (3) calls the black candidate "uppity."  I leave it at that.

I am someone who calls West Virginia voters.  We have a script.  We don't ever ask for money.  We ask who they are supporting, give them information on our candidate, and direct them to how to find their polling place.

If you want to see the script, you can develop a profile on my barack obama, and then choose make calls.  You'll see the script.

You are full of crap.

Walk away.

This crew is beginning to make Alex Jones look like the voice of reason. Perhaps they can team up with Ron Paul and run on the Tin Foil Hat ticket.

Silly begets silly begets silly begets....

I have big connections in the BO campaign thanks to my work for him, and a relation built out of his calling my sick brother.  

I read this story and contacted my friend who travels with the campaign, and is IN FACT in WV putting boots on the ground, etc.

This story, if true at all, has NOTHING to do with Obama.  His campaign has moved into an entirely new direction. While they are trying to put enough resources in the state to demonstrate intrest and assure that his people go to the polls, NO ONE has spent the sort of resources there to do what TDs sources indicate.  

The long and short is that Obama has moved to the GE, and his inner circle is ceding WV and KY, focusing on OR to put the nomination to rest.

Whoever is selling you this koolaid TD, is doing so BADLY.  I would be careful not to sully yourself by repeating spurrious poo.

It's a good sign that this is the only insanity/unsubstantiated-rumor/innuendo/ fact-challenged/obama-hit-piece diary on the rec list right now, but that's still one too many.

It's time to bring back MyDD from the brink and STOP rec'ing this crap.

supporters have heard of this.  Why wouldn't the Obama campaign be contacting his own supporters?

I for one am not stupid enough to believe this nonsense.

This hit piece is a joke.  Kindly accept my middle finger as a sign of disapproval.  What do you have lined up for tomorrow texasdarlin?  Is Obama going to buy a weird vegetable at the supermarket? Are you going to get a mysterious email that asks if Obama is eating babies? Is Hillary going to inherit the power of a god and alter space and time to get enough delegates to win the election?  Is Hillary going to 'righteously' fight to kneecap Senator Obama and so she can run again in 2012?  

Seriously, this is the kind of crap I expect to hear out of jerks like Sean Hannity.  When did MyDD become the Faux News of the Clinton Camp and when did Texasdarlin become bizzaro Limbaugh?

TexasDarlin please write better diaries come on you are better then this. Many Clinton supporters broke nails trying to get you back from being banned please do not make us go through that again. We need you, but come on you are better then this. I do not want to lose you! I need your diaries! It would take a starve in next time to get you back and I do not know if I can resist that bowl of ice cream for that long.

Can this be deleted, this lies are just wrong.

This diary is pretty much the definition of urban legend.  

It's also paranoid and unintentionally hilarious (in which fundraising becomes voter suppression).

If this is true and I am not saying it is it shows a lack of understanding of the demographics of the state. WV is one of the poorest in the union. I can't believe they have the nerve to ask someone for $400. I guess when you drive a hybrid and can afford to pay $5 for a cup of coffee $400 is not that much.

I wander into Democratic blogs and websites periodically, and just came back to MyDD after several months and I'm finding it really fascinating.  Over the last week I've been obsessively reading diaries and comment threads, and it seriously seems like a different universe in here.  I live in a blue state, have many friends and colleagues supporting both Obama and Clinton (I myself started with Edwards, now Obama) and never have I encountered the level of vitriol, shameless rumor-mongering and childishness that appears to be standard operating procedure here.  Really, it seems like a totally different blog than I remember it being.  And a lot of the nastiness is from both sides.

I think the echo chamber effect here is worthy of a PhD thesis.  This diary is laughable, as many have said.  Seriously, could any rational person envision such a competently run, effective campaign as Obama's asking for $400 over the phone from random people in one of the poorest states in the country?  Seriously?  Maybe I'm just incapable of understanding the true venality and idiocy and incompetence and arrogance of the Obama campaign because I'm a college-educated person from a caucus state who has betrayed my gender and race by voting for Obama.

This diarist is very very bias in their postings so much credibility is lost.

Stop spreading rumors, please, for the party's sake.

If you can't post a diary to unify the party, please don't post it here.  

Clinton already has toned down her rhetoric, so please take a cue from the person you allegedly support.  

I use the word allegedly because I'm beginning to think you are a republican troll.  If you truly are a Democrat, can you post something positive that will unify rather than divide the two camps?  This is my challenge to you Texasdarlin.  Prove yourself a true Democrat and take my challenge.

Look, there have documented, questionable practices during this primary (and I think you know what I am referring to) The fact that Texas put this out there makes sense to me. If it inspires people to look for evidence or lack of evidence, so be it. I fear too much went on with no questioning and no scrutiny. And about those things people are starting to wish they had spoken up sooner. Texas, you do a great job...this issue demands some thought and investigation.