the nominee. but i should say, i think you said something along the lines whether or not this happened, whatever happened, it s important that hillary clinton s campaign did not actually try to feed this. there is a staffer in iowa in december 2007 who forwarded a obama a muslim e-mail and was fired. wrote an infamous memo we only learned about a year later saying he was unelectable until maybe 2050, which was not right. he wrote that as a way of saying this is why he s unelectable. not that we re going to go after him for this. but you could also say, that s a bit cynical. the campaign played a very occasionally, just a little bit around the edges of this. every time it was badly burnt because it was just it was not politically advantageous for her to look like she was demonizing personally and racially the first black president. for republicans in a very different party with a very different opinion of the president, it was not a downside
well, so and so started it. but second of all, let s be clear about the birther movement as a movement. i mean, you had, you know, you had official resolutions introduced in state houses, lawsuits, all of this was coming from the institutional grass roots of the republican party conservative movement. just to be very clear factually where this was coming from. yeah, to require more information, hint, hint, from future presidential candidates. there were no democrats signed on to such things. that, honestly, surprised me. i looked at birtherism in 2008 as a long, but not that long, tail of the hillary clinton dead-enders who wanted her to be the nominee. but i should say, i think you said something along the lines whether or not this happened, whatever happened, it s important that hillary clinton s campaign did not actually try to feed this. there is a staffer in iowa in december 2007 who forwarded a obama a muslim e-mail and was fired.
i had a column in the spectator, reggie love witnessed a conversation between then senator obama and hillary clinton in december 2007 in which senator obama flatly accused her of pushing the line that he was a muslim. and he was not very happy about it. so this kind of thing originated with hillary clinton. and why scott pelle isn t going to hold on. let me clarify there. that were ardent hillary clinton supporters who also questioned president obama s burirthplace. but hillary clinton did not and. president obama accused her of this to her face and she didn t deny it. i m going right from the account reggie love wrote in his book. i quoted it exactly. so, you know, what can i tell you? i mean if the president himself is accusing her and she doesn t deny it, who am i to say? let s move on to what ben
oil and gas. it s a win and a loss. okay, john, i bet you have a pick up or two. i have a couple and they got four to five miles to the gallon. in november, 40% of old permits, we were down 40%. since december, 2007, shell drilling increases 1.36 million. state that is don t are down 432,000. it is a job creator. overall, the benefit of lower gas prices help the middle class and lower incomes specifically. it is like an economic stimulus. tax on top of it. if you look at your portfolio, odds are good you are at the energy sector. stuff like this keeps happening. you have to worry about jobs, even a t the companies.
and records that the videotapes were destroyed shortly after cia attorneys raised concerns that congress might find out about the tapes. in any case, at that same december 11th committee hearing, director hayden told the committee that cia cables related to the interrogation sessions depicted in the videotapes were, and i quote: a more than adequate representation of the tapes and, therefore, be you want them if you want them, we ll give you access to them. that s at the december 2007 hearing. senator rockefeller, then chairman of the committee, designated two members of the committee staff to review the cables describing the interrogation sessions of abu sa buy da and al-nashiri.