Hillary Clinton is the grandmother of birtherism. The media doesn’t want to admit it, but this is fact. Back in 2007 when Hillary Clinton was running against Obama for the Democrat nomination to beat John McCain, Hillary Clinton’s campaign director Mark Penn back in 2007 circled around memo to spread the “Obama is not an American” birther line. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Mark Penn wrote a memo and said Obama lacks American roots. Imagine if any GOP candidate or campaign manager said the same thing (true or otherwise).
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Penn Strategy Memo, March 19, 2007: More than anything else, this memo captures the full essence of Mark Penn’s campaign strategy–its brilliance and its breathtaking attacks. Penn identified with impressive specificity the very coalition of women and blue-collar workers that Clinton ended up winning a year later. But he also called Obama “unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun,” and wrote, “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” Penn proposed targeting Obama’s “lack of American roots.”