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The Clinton Campaign Memos
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 8/12/2008
The Clinton Campaign Memos
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Read the article here . Read the memos here . The Atlantic's Josh Green obtained hundreds of internal e-mails and memorandums circulating among top aides to Hillary Clinton and has woven them into a fascinating narrative of her failed campaign. Here, in detail and backed up by evidence, is the story of what really happened. The memos, e-mail and Josh's ...

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Video: “Obama Believer”
Sister Toldjah — ... today that takes an in-depth look on how Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama. The article includes never before published emails and memos, some of them highly explosive. Make sure to read the whole thing. (Via Marc Ambinder) ...

Author of Atlantic's Hit Job on Hillary Lied About Al Gore Too
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... who helped put Bush, instead of Gore, into the White House. Joshua Green, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of the latest hit job on Hillary Rodham Clinton, inadvertently reminds readers that he once wrote for The Onion (seriously) when he actually suggests (on page one) that his hit job is "empirical truth." The Atlantic's long awaited hit job on Hillary Rodham Clinton is breathlessly billed by Atlantic columnist Marc Ambinder as "the story of what really happened." [via] Yet over the years, Joshua Green has written ...

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