<p>Many of us speculated that the Clinton campaign was behind the constant anti-American attacks against Obama by continually exploiting the Reverand Wright sound bites. It seems there may be some truth to that speculation after all. Perhaps the media was really not favoring Obama as much as some suggest… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Report: Clinton told to cast Obama as un-American](<a href=“http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gm2r2iPBZ5UUSNSv-9qfTxum5dsAD92GDR7G0]The”>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gm2r2iPBZ5UUSNSv-9qfTxum5dsAD92GDR7G0)</p>
<p>"Penn advised going negative.</p>
<p>Obama’s background — he grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii — was a “lack of American roots,” Penn wrote. Also a weakness, he added, was the divisive rhetoric of Obama’s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who cursed America during a sermon.</p>
<p>“Won’t a single tape of Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game-ender?” Penn wrote in a March 30 memo."</p>