Report: 2nd Obama Backer in a Week Leaves Campaign Over Clinton Comments

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Another member of Barack Obama's campaign resigned Tuesday after hurling insults at Hillary Clinton.

Maxim Thorne, a member of Obama's LGBT leadership council, left the campaign after sending out an e-mail that invoked the sex scandals of the Clinton presidency, Politico.com reported.

"We cannot tolerate her lies and stolen election," she wrote, according to Politico. "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. 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? ... They settled with Paula Jones for the full amount of her lawsuit. I haven't forgotten and none of us should."

Thorne's exit marks back-to-back departures in the Obama camp in a matter of days. Former foreign policy adviser Samantha Power left the campaign last week after calling Clinton a "monster" in an interview with a Scottish newspaper.

Obama's campaign was also calling on Clinton Tuesday to oust former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro from her spot on her finance committee after she told a California newspaper that Obama wouldn't "be in this position" if he were white.

Click here to read the Politico.com story on Thorne.

 

 

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