CLINTON CAMPAIGN EMAILS

Josh Green somehow got a hold of emails from the Clinton campaign, and as indicated, they will be published tomorrow (Monday, 8/11). Should be quite interesting and uncomfortable for the Clintons. Please see below.

Mike Allen gets an early look at an eagerly-awaited pile of internal Clinton campaign emails, coming in a Josh Green piece in the Atlantic tomorrow, notably a memo from Mark Penn, mentioned by the Times but never printed, that suggested Clinton attack Obama's Americanness:

Penn, the presidential campaign’s chief strategist, wrote in a memo to Clinton excerpted in the article: “I cannot imagine American electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

[snip]The Penn memo suggesting that the campaign target Obama’s “lack of American roots” said in part: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light.“Save it for 2050 … Every speech should contain the line you were born in the middle of America American to the middle class in the middle of the last century. And talk about the basic bargain as about the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child and that drive you today. Values of fairness, compassion, responsibility, giving back“Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t. Make this a new American Century, the American Strategic Energy Fund. Let’s use our logo to make some flags we can give out. Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds.”